I stayed up late last night so I could finish Fred Bear's Archer's Bible, which I just started last night.
He has a section in it on different sighting methods- instinctive, gap, string walking and sites. He highly recomends one learn to shoot instictive, get the arrow under the eye and let the brain adjust elevation, for hunting, says it's more reliable and faster in hunting situations. I came to work today fully committed to continuing down the instictive path, then this
A beginner using an aiming method will become a better shooter, faster, than another who's blundering about with instinctive shooting, stubbornly clinging to a false premise.
He does however make a statement to the effect that a beginner should learn and aiming system in order to learn quicker, but then revert to learning instictive (is that an oxymoron?) for hunting purposes.
As you know, I'm a "beginner", and for the past few weeks have been shooting my recurve purely instictive. Can regularly hit the kill zone out to about 15 yards, any further and I get wild, I think it's because of the cement wall with the electrical service box on it directly behind my target
Haven't had a chance yet to shoot outside at a local range where I don't have to worry about such things.
Art, to make up for this pot stirring, how 'bout posting a tutorial on your aiming method?