As a slingshot shooter....the shooters gap was BAFFLING to me. Once I comprehended it....WOW! Thanks!

Best description on gap shooting I've heard yet, thank you

Just bought a new bow and you really help me a lot about this aiming method...

That is the simplest explanation of gap shooting I've come across. And it now seems to make sense. I was way over complicating the whole thing.

I've been shooting compound for years. After a solid week of practicing intuitive or instinctive shooting with my new Mongolian horse bow, this was like a light bulb going off. Mapping the trajectory is brilliant and so simple

I tried gap shooting today for the 1st time ever ....and your right . I shot 12 to 14 inches higher .....then aimed low the same 12"to 14 " distance and nailed target bullseyes .... trippy but works .....I want to check out your string walking method next, I have never heard of that one . Ok thanks for the videos ........ and subbed !!

Great tips! The range from 15-25 being all in the kill spot was a great one! Thanks

Good demo and explaination for how to find your gap.

Great video my man!

Been looking for just this video 👍🏼 thanks

I have been a split finger total instinctive shooter for the last 25 years. I have dabbled in and out of traditional within those years also shooting compounds. The last 2 years I have been focusing mostly on traditional archery. I switched to 3 under about 6 months ago and saw my shooting vastly improve. Now I want to learn gap but know it's probably going to be difficult transition as I have been taught to block out the arrow and focus on one spot. I have just started watching your videos and really enjoy them. You do a great job at passing on information and experience in a way that makes it seem that you learning along with the viewers. Keep up the great work!

Best tutorial I've found on gap shooting, especially your tip about using the same gap for a range of distances - have been trying this on 3D & it really simplifies the problem of precise yardage estimation. Here in the UK we have to shoot split finger for Hunting Tackle class, so gaps are a bit bigger. Thanks for the vids!

Greg your series on gap shooting is on the money and there are many more that cover the technique but not one discusses significant gaps ABOVE THE TARGET when shooting longer distances !! I worked out a very simple technique using secondary target images or background spots above the primary target and actually ignoring the primary target completely !! I've actually taught this simple system to other archers in a matter of minutes and I'd be surprised if you don't use a similar system yourself or if you use something different I would love to hear your thoughts !!

being very new to archery (went to the range for the first time a week ago) i noticed I am constantly shooting low and right. Now obviously I don't have some of the fundamentals down so I had shots go every which way, but the majority were low and right. With the knowledge that you gave in this video, I think I should be able to bring my shots closer to center now that I have a better understanding of how to adjust for my gap. (also a new term for me, didn't know the terminology for how I was aiming). I think one of the reasons I was going right was I was gripping my bow instead of just letting it sit in the saddle between my thumb and fore-finger (this will be hard to break free from as I've been shooting rifle competitively for a couple years now and my hand just naturally wants to grip). Either way, thank you for sharing your knowledge, I look forward to practicing what you have taught!

Thank you so much, I am new to traditional archery, this just upped my consistency and groups instantly!

EASY TO UNDERSTAND FOR NEW ARCHERS LIKE MY SELF WELL I AM BACK INTO ARCHERY AFTER 65 YRS HANS WEGNER

Fantastic video, first video to get the concept in my head properly! good stuff.

Great post and will be experimenting with gap shooting with more precision thanks to you!

Wow so rare seeing a fellow left handed archer.

a great video. as a level 1 instructor, I offer this info for those who want to get better at archery.

I gotta say that anyone who can't call the yardage and has no idea where they are hitting at a given yardage will inevitably injure and lose animals. I've known guys who instinctively shoot and are pretty good shots on fixed targets. Once in the woods on uneven terrain their abilities fall apart because they have no formula to go to for estimating the gap. Great video, anyone who hunts... for the sake of humane kills learn everything you can like in this video.

Hey Greg, thank you for this helpful information, and video!!!

Hi Greg! I enjoy your videos as you are a competent teacher. You keep it humorous as well as informative! On this particular video, I wanted to point out that, when you pointed to the gap shooting video, there was nothing there....at least on my end. Thanks again and keep them coming!

Absolutely brilliant.....................The only thing is that you have to be a very good estimater of distance, not only to the target but also guessing the distance above or below your target point for your gap.

Now that was one helpful video! Thanks!

keep these coming bud! you're an awesome teacher. very glad I found your channel.

Well done. I'm so new at trad, I'm still wearing diapers. So it's videos like this that are keeping me awake late into the night. Oh, I've been bowhunting since '80 and slaughtered hundreds of deer with a compound......but I'm bored with it. Time to toss the training wheels and go native..... Thanks for an informative clip.

thanks buddy, that'll get me started at 3D longbow. It reminds me of yrs ago shooting a 50lb target recurve with aces, 10 to 28 yds was the same sight marks, that field round was easy.

thankyou easy to understand..........excellent

Best explanation by far! Thank you sir and you have a new sub and fan from me!

Great video break I am a newbie and you are teaching me all kinds of new stuff

You are the man! Thank you!

Very helpful video sir... as I said in another comment, Iam new to archery, but not hunting & really liking my compound with sights. Have an old, longer axel to axel coumpound, that I have been shooting too, but end up laying it down for the confidence I have as a new archer with my sights. But this is the simpilest, and easiest to understand vid on gap shooting I have seen. I was getting frustrated by all the 'instinctive' teaching, and makes sense that there is an aspect of aiming in all forms!! Your teaching gives me a good base to work on moving forward, but for now, will be trying to tag my first animal with my 3pin sight... Thanks again... new subsciber from MN. Have a great bow season! Peace, DB.

This channel is aweasome, alright? It deserves more watches...

Greg - Archery 101 is a great idea and you are off to a great release, job well done and Thank You! It seems we all had a great 2015 3D season this year. I have never seriously tried three under or gap but you got me think'in maybe someday. I have been shooting a great mix of bow weights this season 35, 42 and my go to 45 lbs. Enjoy the Holidays and Merry Christmas! Hoping we can get the BPs together during the 2016 season especially at the Sturbridge, R100. Jeff

I just got back into bow hunting last year after 40 years. Have never shot a compound. Doing longbows and recurves. I'm an instinctive shooter, but would try Gap. I'm right handed but left eye, so I shoot shotgun and bow lefty.

Great explanation! .as always. Thanks!

Awesome tactics

As a thumb draw, instinctive shooter, found that interesting, thanks.

Very informative video. Thanks to you.

Excellent!! Thank you.

Like always great video. Thanks keep up the great job.

thanks. great information

Awesome Channel, very helpful! Liked and subscribed, take care! Im shooting a yew and bamboo longbow!

i like your way of teaching us that methode of finding the gap i realy like it thanks for showing us

Clear and simple. Thanks

Great footage!!!

Nice

Great explanation.

Ahhhhh... So this is where the "aim low on the deer" came from... Add into that their tendency to drop..

Thx u

nice video, very informative!

Saved me some stress, bro.

Interesting video. It seems as though you are describing more of a pick a point system for targets that are elevated off the ground rather than seeing a gap off the spot . I was always taught to see the gap in the riser window not the tip of the arrow and focus on the spot with the gap being in the secondary vision. That way when shooting targets on the ground you were still accurate. How do you measure 12 inches down with the tip of the arrow when the target is small and on the ground? Maybe something like a tennis ball. As an example my gap at 25 yards is a 3/4 inch gap between the arrow and the spot as seen in the riser window. It doesn't matter if I am shooting targets on the ground or elevated targets.

Estimado amigo, muy buen video. Muchas gracias por este video. Soy fanático del arco recurvado tradicional. Le envío un Abrazo desde Argentina.

I do 3 under...46# longbow(Bear AuSable) @ just under 28" draw. Full length 600's/125gr.points. My 10yrd gap is about 8". My 15yrd. is just about point on. And 20 to 23yrds... slightly above, which I think is in the arch zone. I'm limited to 23yrds. at present. But I fear that I'm not doing it right. But knowing where the zone is...I'm hitting more 10 ring shots than ever before. The 15yrd point on... is messed with my mind...and makes me think I've screwed up with determining gap. Like your 15 is even higher than then 10 and arch zone higher. Maybe my arrows are too heavy, I donno. Your instructions are on line with Mr. Blackmond'''s videos... I've watched his a lot. Maybe I'm not precise enough with my arrow tip or steady enough with my bow arm... BUT...lol I ain't giving up. Cause it's made me shoot better. Good Video..will be waiting for more like a hungry puppy.

I'm still in the dark. Is one sighting down the shaft at the orange dot? - NO, the shaft is still below the eye. One would have to be looking down the shaft from nock to point! Signed, Instinctive.

Thanks for your very informative video, have learned a lot.

I would like to hear an explanation on aiming for windage Thanks for the great video

I've never done archery before so sorry if this sounds stupid, could you use this technique in a barebow archery contest instead of string walking ?

Hello again. I am in my fifth decade of instinctive shooting but have never, until KZfaq, been properly instructed as to all of the aspects of archery. So bear with me here. My concern is in gap shooting, wouldn't the bow always have to be vertical? This would reduce chances, for a shot, in hunting situations.

Ok this was a great how to and I understood it! But I have a problem... And that problem is that I can't hit the target consistently enough to determine my gap. It would probably help if I had a heavier draw weight and better arrows...

Thanks for sharing your GAP shooting video. After watching your video I had two questions come to mind for you. With your 30" draw did you add an extension to the Carbon Express Predator II 800 Spine arrow. It appears as though the OEM of that arrow is 30"...? And If your GAP is still high of your target at 30 yards - what would the point of aim be where you are hitting where you are aiming...?

What I wish to know is, if I am somewhere in nature and want to hit a target to let's say simulate shooting a dear, how do I determine the distance and the gap in order to make the first one a kill shot. How can I determine the gap without missing the target and scaring the animal away?

What would the gap look like at 60 meters?

wonder why he never hit the red dot once after all the gapping. maybe just point and shoot.

Neophyte speaking.... how could there be any other way? I am new to archery but not new to hunting and in particular shotgun for waterfowl where you have to adjust your aim for distance, flight direction etc. Concept is loosely the same, so not sure why anyone would 'bad-mouth' gap shooting.

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Kentucky Windage.

This may be a Dumbass question but how do you shoot a 800 spine arrow out of a 41lb bow? I shoot a 43lb Bob Lee recurve with 500 spine goldtip trads 29.74 inch long 125gn points, baresharft tuned any longer shoots like crap....

Hello sir, any thoughts on gap vs string walking? I will be experimenting this off season and any thoughts appreciated. Thanks and Happy New Year!

What do you mean by "put the arrow on it"? Do I just aim down the arrow and have the arrow head sitting right on the nail?

so if your ten yards away only your going to aim lower than the target? why would you do that if the arrow has almost no trajectory?

I still don't understand gap. What are you aiming at if not the orange disk.

Hey, i've just started getting into archery and loving it even though i can't aim consistently. I've always been told Gap shooting has more cons than pro's so i went for learning instinctive and i'm doing terribly with my consistency. Your video seems much better for me so i think i'll give it a shot, i just have one important question. My arrows seem to go to the sides a lot so being able to have my arrows hit directly above the dot will be quite hard for me, any reason why this is? My draw length is 29" and im using a 24 foot long recurve, im scared of pulling it all the way back to my anchor. am i right in fearing this or will it take it?

Hey archery 101 ! Just found your video. From my understanding, basically if i want to shoot on the target i have to take in acount arrow trajectory right? But can you give me on how should i aim my arrow horizontally? I mean, my arrow seems to always moves to the right of my desired target point

When you say aim that means you are aiming the point of your arrow right? Just asking cause I want to try this!

Were those jump wings on your riser? Master Blaster? Which outfit?

Maybe u can answer my question. Im new to traditional recurve shooting. I was under impression for around 40# draw and ur arrow length the arrow spine should be around .400-.500. I hear alot of guys in hear shooting higher spine. Am I misunderstanding something

HI Archery 101 I shoot a Kodiak legend 4o lbs with full length arrows.My draw length is 31 so i have about 46 lbs on the fingers. I have a gap at ten yards of 32 inches and at 20 yards of 43 inches. Can you imagin why my gap is so big? It makes it very difficult. Thanks for help!

arent you going off of though, whats good enough? what if you wanted to hit center target gold target shooting 10's all day would this be consistent? seems to me youre just going off of let you get in that area. what if i wnated to hit a penny on a target this wouldnt allow me to hit that penny would it

Is this the same as using hold over and under for rifle shooting?

how dou u use it at longer distances? works great at distances up to 30 m

can you change your point on by changing you nock? so if I want to shoot gap but want my gap to be smaller can I lower or raise my nock to bring my point on or gap closer to my aiming spot?

0:50 What's chagectary?

Is it point on that full draw or point on before you draw

hi there. so what is the point that we are looking at ? the arrow tip or the target with the prepial of the arrow and its tip?

What about swinging left and right ?

Kentucky windage?

Today I found out that I was shooting gap all this time.... 😅

hello greg, i was wondering how do i gap downhill and opphill?

you didn't fully describe your anchor and how to set the nock point, I will start searching through your videos otherwise very informative I started gap shooting a week ago and now I can hit things

Thanks for the explanation but it's not for me. I prefer to shoot instinctive. Gap in not for everybody and instinctive is not for everybody. Do what works for YOU

So, you know that gap shooting is not instinctive archery right?

i have that exact bow but 50 pound draw

If you are doing well with instinctive shooting, why bother learning gap shooting?

Hi Greg! I enjoy your videos as you are a competent teacher. You keep it humorous as well as informative! On this particular video, I wanted to point out that, when you pointed to the gap shooting video, there was nothing there....at least on my end. Thanks again and keep them coming!