I live about 40 miles south of Wilsonville in Centreville haha

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5-10 hits of clean acid and Hendrix electric ladyland out in the deserr.

It tends to work that way

I "Know" where the string it, but I cannot see it. I shoot with the string just to the outside of my eye, it touches my eyebrow.

It is layered foam. Not sure where the club gets it from. They are thin layers that are stacked on each other.

It is a hat of his, but not the ones he wears. We wore that in a skit we did in one of our videos. The Clacker was from a shoot, as was the duck. I want to slowly add things from the videos to the wall.

Target really has nothing to do with it. It is about distance. You know that at such and such a distance you need to aim spot on, high or low. You learn that on the range, you apply it in the woods.

Great question. They key is being able to "open" up your vision to see the arrow. One way, which can help but also can lead to decreased accuracy is to when drawing, look at the arrow and when at full draw, slowly change your focus to the target. Once you can "see" the arrow, your mind becomes "aware" of it and just naturally see it.

I found that if i shift my focus too quickly, i shoot off. I believe it is from something I was taught years ago in racing. "The hands follow the eyes". You look at the target and then lift your eyes upward and you hands just naturally follow. When I draw, I hit all my marks and then check my aim, the point is both vertical and Horizontal. I will say that I mainly go by how the sight picture "feels" . I just "know" where it belong.

@@TradArchery101 thx. Ok, to be clear, so its not like you note that point is exactly on a spot on the ground or somwhere on the target (below were you wanna hit). Its more a total picture of the sight vision with focus on arrow tip before moving focus on hitzone? Correct?

It can be done that way. I know people who keep the "Total Sight Picture" the whole time. I do this from time to time, when I feel really confident that I can hit it (usually close shots). But when I need to make a quality shot. I look down the arrow, put it where I want it and then slowly shift my focus up to where I want it to hit. I can't say there is just one way. We all think and work different. What works for you may not work for me and vise versa.

@@TradArchery101 ok thanks, I understand now. I will experiment some to see what could work for me. All the best from sweden and keep the great vids coming. /Fredrik

Indoor 18 Meters, First Outdoor 35 Meters, second out door, Second outdoor, 16 M

In many ways it is, good point

Let me ask you this, when you draw, what are you looking at? I have found that if I look at the target, my right eye wants to take over. But if I look at the target and right before I draw, shift my vision to the arrow shaft closest to my eye, That eye stays dominant. Sounds weird, but it is how it works for me.

I don't have a dominant eye. Test after test, if I use my right thumb, my right eye is dominant, same with the left. The test where you put one hand over the other to make a diamond? The hand that is closer to my face determines my dominant eye. Split vision is the best of both worlds for me. I struggled a bit in the beginning with pure gap, got a little better with instinctive, then I realized I was actually shooting split vision. Then I focused on shooting split vision. I shoot as fast as an instinctive shooter. I am primarily focused on the target but I can still be aware of the arrow at the same time. When I focus on the target with both eyes open, I see two arrows, I just use the left arrow.

Google "alternating ocular dominance."

I used split and three under in the video. I use split for Instinctive and Three under for GAP in the video. I normally shoot three under. But shoot split from time to time, depending on the bow.

@@TradArchery101 Thx. I'm new to archery. Been shooting for about a month. Instinctive seems to give me the best results but I'll try split. I normally shoot split-finger.

Sorry for the delay, yes you can.

It is within your field of vision. How the mind works, is that it prioritizes that which is important and makes that for a lack of a better word, "High definition". Like 1080p, as move away from that point, the definition decreases and your mind pay no attention to it. At least that is what they said in the show Brain Games about vision.

I, personally can answer that with a simple yes. Or, I could, until I changed to split and gap aiming. Some shots I still shoot instinctive, and then all dissapears, it remains just the spot I want to hit. As a long time just instinctive shooter, I want to point out, that I even had considerable difficulties when I began to change to reference aiming, because at full draw I simply didn't see anything else but the target. I had to first recondition myself without the bow, and learn to get my sight picture right. It is as is sead here, "it depends what the brain prioritizes". Your question seems a bit weird to me. It's like You are trying to defend a theory, which goes around, that nobody shoots without references (or instinctive, if You want to call it like that). But it is just a theory, mind You. It's the same, when You are reading a very interesting book, and You cannot hear someone talking to you, despite "that its right in front of your nose." You can become so conditioned to concentrate on just the certain things that you don't see the arrow at all. If You have a bow over 55 pound, and a relatively low anchor point, because nobody learned You better, like I did, than I can assure You: arrow doesn't seem "right under your nose" in relation to the target. So, don't judge from Your perspective only.

No I am not. Both eyes open

Great question, I keep both eyes open. But I have to be careful, if I look a certain way, my mind will use the wrong eye! Yes, studies and science has shown that the dominate eye can switch sides.

If you want to compete, the rules will not allow that.

You can use any of them on a moving target. I use split vision on moving targets all the time with no problems.

Ok im not really sure what I'm doing. Kinda new @ this and really enjoy it, but I can tell I've hit 3 birds in flight not really knowing what I'm doing. Would that be instinctive ? Thanks for your reply 👍

@@frankfitz3421 Three birds in flight? Out of how many tries? Only you know what method you are using.

Yes 3 different days, I just figured they were lucky shots. Back then I never knew anything about different styles of shooting or arrow differences. What I learned was there method of evasion in flight when they seen the arrow coming. So I anticipated there move before I shot Im not a hunter, i just enjoyed the challenge and those ravens were causing problems. They eventually wouldn't come around anymore and I got bored just shooting hay bales after that.

@@frankfitz3421 Then you did not shoot instinctive. You shot what I was taught as “Kentucky Windage”. Which I use to this day.

I set my bows to shoot "Point On' at 30 yards. The reason I do this is the IBO has the max distance for Traditional set at 30 yards. I made the hardest shot, the easiest to do. You will not be able to compete with compounds, they have sights, stabilizers and releases. Don't shoot from their stakes, shoot from ours.

Im definitely not Competing I am just fun shooting. But I would like to at least hit the target. Now I just tried to look and see where my point was and It was off 6" to the Right at 10 yards to hit the center these shafts are bare shafting pretty dang straight out to 20 yds. They fly like darts so whats going on?

@@kennethsmith1744 How is the bow cut?

The Bear looks like its not cut to center the Browning is almost center thats the arrow is slightly left of the string Right handed shooter I have been shooting them both.

@@kennethsmith1744 Bows not cut past center will not have the arrow on the target. Another factor is your anchor point. If you anchor off to the side, like on the corner of your mouth, the arrow will not be center, but off to the side.

That is an old Hoyt Scout

Love Howard Hill, but look at it this way. How many people have won using his method? Not many. Just because it worked for him, does not mean it will work for you and I.

M M That is because not everyone learns in the same way.