Longbow quest

[smj]

When you shoot with sights, what do you do when in the same environment? You have to raise the bow, draw, find your peep, look through it and line up the sight pins, pick the pin, check your anchor, match the round peep to the round sight housing, check the level, squeeze the release. (If the shot goes bad, you say you held the wrong pin or didn't follow through or - had one to many jerks on the string...) There are a lot of steps to go through that demand attention and help to keep us on target and focused on the task at hand! I think this is why it is, when shooting a compound all tricked out, that a new shooter can get on paper so quickly. I hold it is the same deal when shooting traditional. However, there is a lot less to the procedure of getting the shot off. Hence, other "focal points" can creep in on you and snag you away from the shot you are trying to make. So, the wisdom of the ages when shooting trad is just focus. A simple word, a not so simple meaning.

I'll grant you, there is also all of the form issues to get ironed out first! But once you get through form issues and understand where an arrow will go once released, you still have to focus on just where you are sending that arrow each and every time!

[BT]

Got it!
Shot my first 280 on my course today which included starting cold

I am just giving up on point of aim and going instinctive.
Spiker really helped me to just relax and shoot alot to ingrain it.
I didn't shoot at all yesterday (to give myself a break) and then just started out fresh today so I wouldn't have the opportunity to forget what I was doing.

It worked out great

Now we will see what happens tomorrow on a strange course and with a few friends watching

[SPIKER]

If I start shooting this recurve well, are these all the problems that I have to look forward to?

I haven't even mastered the compound yet, and now this.... Somehow BT managed to induce the bug into me, along with the PSE recurve...another PSE???

Right now there's nothing to worry about as I resemble the knife thrower in the circus the way I outline the silhouette of the 3D target against the block!

[smj]

spiker said:

If I start shooting this recurve well, are these all the problems that I have to look forward to?

"...all the problems..." Don't even worry about it, I'm sure that you will find a whole new set of problems to have to work through! ;D

[BT]

Yeah....what smj said
Don't worry guy....you were doing very well for your second time
Just remember that it is not the distance but the grouping.
Stay close till you just cant miss and then go back one stride only and perfect that before going the next step back

[BT]

As you may have noticed , I was vacant from the board for the most part last week.

Alot was due to the fact that I was shooting the longbow right up to the moment I went to bed each night.
A quest to bend this bow to my will since it wouldn't bend to mine

Well I am happy to report that the progress was nothing short of amazing in the end
At this point I believe that skipmaster will need to be on his best to beat me at the next 3-D ;D

I AM VERY HAPPY

[smj]

YOU SHOULD BE!!!! Sounds like you've had a couple great days...

[BT]

Indeed!

It's back to where it was when I was a kid
No matter if I hit my anchor or not , I instinctively adjust for the error without thinking about it.

Last night I took a lap around the course in near dark conditions and never once felt any anxious moment about releasing on a target.
Prior to this last week I would have thought twice about any shot that I couldn't visually follow in case of a miss.