Archery Longbow
Need Longbow Tips for shooting and aiming.?
I recently began shooting a fiberglass long bow, I need help with how to aim it firstly. Any tips and suggestions as well as sites are helpful. Secondly, I need tips on general stance and forms of holding and shooting the bow. I already have a general knowledge of archery with compounds, but I need information so I can shoot a longbow better
There are two types of instinctive shooters. One called "Gap" shooters and then what I refer to as "TRUE" instinctive shooters. Gap shooters use an aiming methodology where by the measure the gap of the window or site picture from their fixed anchor point. For instance the tip of the arrow, is 4" below the mark at 20 yards. 2" at 30, and so on. It's really no different than slapping sites on your bow.
True instinctive shooters, block out the gap and through repetitious practice, know how to hold and release the arrow to hit their mark. I put together a short how to video on instinctive shooting which can be found below. It doesn't get into too much detail about proper stance, but explains my technique of shooting a recurve without sights.
http://www.pinecityoutdoors.com/video/InstinctiveShooting.wmv
Look online for "Gap shooting" but if you want even more rewarding experience, try true instinctive shooting. It may take a while to get it down, but practicing is what's it's all about anyway. Once you get it down, it's like riding a bike. You can pick up a bow and hit your mark weeks after never shooting.
I hunt and shoot 3-D with bow my decked out Mathews compound with all the new fangeled gear and a Plain-Jane Hoyt Gamemaster Takedown recurve. Both use totally different methods of shooting, but both produce very accurate results.
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