The real bona-fide elite of the stickbow world will really hate me using the term " instinctive" in the same sentence with compounds and releases, but here' s advice I give to apsiring bowhunters:

Learn to shoot your bow accurately at 20 yards or so without using your sights.

Now what kind of arrogant arse am I to suggest you take the sights off your bow? Yeah, that' s probably the first thing a few may think when they consider that advice, but that' s NOT what I meant.

Leave your sights on your bow. Shoot with your sights. Count on them to put the arrow where you need it to go. But spend some time working out a " backup plan" . When the moment of truth comes and your peep didn' t rotate just right or your sights came loose and fell off your bow while you were on the trail or the peep filled with water or it' s really dark and cloudy and near the end or beginning of legal shooting hours.... You still have the ability and confidence to make the shot - you just go with plan B.

You will also find that it makes those really close, really quick shots a no-brainer. As hunters, we try to have a solution to everything that can go wrong, but I don' t see shooters with their compounds drawing and shooting with the arrow in a shotgun sighting position very often practicing their shots without relying on their sights.

Ted Nugent doesn' t even HAVE sights on his bow and takes a ton of deer. Just a little time fiddling around with " instinctive" shooting on your high-tech setup gives you the best of both worlds and can save your hunt.

That' s my tip of the day. ;o) Have a great weekend everyone!