fbirder
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After four years of shooting target recurve I decided I needed something a bit different. I didn't want to go compound (I have balance problems that already limit my recurve shooting - even from a chair) so I went for an AFB.
For four weeks I've been using it for target shooting and finding it great fun using gap shooting (aiming at the bottom of the target for 50 m, etc).
One of the reasons for buying it was to use in our field course in a wood (where recurve, sights, stabilisers, etc.) would be cumbersome. I thought I'd see what instinctive shooting was like - so I set up in my back garden.
At first I was terrible, then I thought about it. I wouldn't try throwing a ball at something with one eye closed - so why was I shooting arrows like that. With a sight I have to close one eye. I'm right-eye dominant, barely.
Immediately arrows were going roughly in the right place. From 5 to 25 m (all my garden can accommodate) it was just a matter of point 'n' shoot. No fussy stuff about trying to get the arrow point on the 27th blade of grass in front of the target. Just look at it and let the arrow fly.
Is this the recommended method for instinctive shooting?
I can't wait to try it with the targets.
For four weeks I've been using it for target shooting and finding it great fun using gap shooting (aiming at the bottom of the target for 50 m, etc).
One of the reasons for buying it was to use in our field course in a wood (where recurve, sights, stabilisers, etc.) would be cumbersome. I thought I'd see what instinctive shooting was like - so I set up in my back garden.
At first I was terrible, then I thought about it. I wouldn't try throwing a ball at something with one eye closed - so why was I shooting arrows like that. With a sight I have to close one eye. I'm right-eye dominant, barely.
Immediately arrows were going roughly in the right place. From 5 to 25 m (all my garden can accommodate) it was just a matter of point 'n' shoot. No fussy stuff about trying to get the arrow point on the 27th blade of grass in front of the target. Just look at it and let the arrow fly.
Is this the recommended method for instinctive shooting?
I can't wait to try it with the targets.