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What is the best way to shoot extinctly with a compound bow???? Any tips would help, thanks

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I'm not being a smarty pants...but....Practice.

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Practice...practice...practice.

No such thing as instinct, more like learned.

Takes a long time to know drop, angle, etc.
Not that I am any good at it but messed with it enough
to know what it takes.

I had to EDIT. I did notnotice the COMPOUND BOW part. Only shot "instinct"
with a recurve. Sorry. Same practice though. A lot.

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I got ride of the wheels two years ago and have gone to shooting a recurve it takes lots of practice. Start close and when you start grouping up close move back 5 yards and get consistent at that range. I have found that the farther I get from the target(30+yards) the more I have felt learning some type of aiming method to help has becomebenafical(sp?)gap,poi whatever works best for you. Hunting ranges is just muscle memory. good luck

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What will be the best type of rest??????

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best type of rest would probably be a drop away...second best in my opinion would probably be the two prong rest. both are accurate but the drop away eliminates friction which speeds up your arrow. love my dropaway but both are fast and both work great

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I think you mean instictively, RIGHT? As in without sights.:)

Never tried it. I'll take all the advantages I can get!

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shoot with your fingers or a mechanical release aid?

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What's the point of a compound if you aren''t going to take advantage. I'd recommend just shooting strictly recurve or learning to shoot with sights. Trust me, it's easier learning sights than to shoot instinctivly. Just my opinion though.

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mechanical---tighter groups and more forgiveness...shooting instinctavly takes loads of time...working on it my self and its no easy task---instinctavly (as in without sights) your HAVE to shoot with fingers

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I lost you a little there but if you are shooting with fingers I would not use a prong rest pr drop away. Your fingers can or couldcurl a bit when you draw and roll the string just enough to move it off of the rest. Plus if you are right handed your spine of the arrow will probably allow it to bow to the right, against the riser. I would use a plunger type rest or a very simple stick on flipper type in an adjustable plate that screws into your bow.

Does that make any sense? It is fun and challenging. I sure dont hunt that way though.

Qualifying for a tournament class?

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when i said instinctavly i assumed he was talking bout a long or recuve bow

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Good old Ted Nugent shot without sights 99% of the time with his compounds. You don't need a recurve or longbow to shoot instinctively. You can shoot with fingers or like Ted with a release it don't matter, what matters is you set up the bow to shoot with fingers or a release(rest etc).

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practice makes perfict!!!!

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I guess if you want to shoot EXTINCTLY........you could always spin it around and fire it back at yourself.;)

But to answer your question......I have no idea. When I was waiting for my sights to be returned...I tried shooting instinctively for a few shots. Let's just say I had to do a little arrow hunting from 10 yds.:eek:

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Yep, you won't know until you try it. And you won't get better until you keep doing it.