It's those sights, Stealth! They're the work of the devil! A satanic plot to destroy your confidence in your natural abilities. Trying to make you think you must do things only 'this' way, that 1/64th of an inch will kill your soul. He also invented the mechanical release, trying to get us to believe his machinery is better than your God given fingers of Devine design. Get rid of all that stuff and be FREE!<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

No, really. I know where you're coming from. We strive for consistency on the target range when we're punching dots and anything that moves your anchor, however slightly, does seem to go against the whole point. Frankly, even though some people might be well trained enough to repeat their anchor within 1/64th of an inch, every time there's not many of 'em. There would never be anything but perfect scores shot every time if the human body was that precise.

There are some of us left that don't use sights, but use different aiming systems. Like the technique called 'face walking' where their entire aiming system is based on having a whole list of different anchors, a different one for each distance. String walkers too, where their pull point on the string varies with each distance. Lowly gap shooters like me. 'Instinctive' shooters also. We consider ourselves archers too, and we generally work harder to develop and maintain our skills than sights shooters do.

But your response is a perfect reflection of what I was saying earlier, that sights force you into a rigid shooting form and mental attitude that, I feel, doesn't flow well in the woods. At the end of the day when I'm bone tired, when it's cold, wet and windy, near dark and a buck's coming in, I don't want to be worrying about trying to get my anchor within a 64th of an inch of perfection. I don't want a peep in front of my eye, screening the ambient light and reducing my visibility. I don't want pins in front of my face, dictating how I hold the bow to shoot. I want to look at the deer, pick a spot and let the arrow fly at the best possible moment.