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Graps
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Re: Interesting video

#11 Post by Graps »

I wasn't going to chime in on this but this is a case and point of what I always say about " Archery ".
Before I learned to " Shoot properly with perfect form " I could hit anything I could see.
Case and point, I would go out at night with lanterns on my canoe and hunt snapping turtles.
I would shoot them just behind the head because that made it easier to handle them having the head under control.
Now I could only see in the water, and granted the shots were close, 10 to 20 feet. I couldn't see my bow or arrow and I'll add, Refraction into the equation.
And I rarely missed. If I had to guess, i might miss one out of twenty.
I've tried gap shooting and that worked good to decrease my confidence and get me missing to the left.
I tried sight pins and that opened up my group's to about the size of a paper plate.
And 3 under was very good for shooting about ten feet in front of the target.
So I gave up and went back to shooting like a twelve year old.
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Re: Interesting video

#12 Post by Captainkirk »

Graps wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2019 10:41 am I wasn't going to chime in on this but this is a case and point of what I always say about " Archery ".
Before I learned to " Shoot properly with perfect form " I could hit anything I could see.
Case and point, I would go out at night with lanterns on my canoe and hunt snapping turtles.
I would shoot them just behind the head because that made it easier to handle them having the head under control.
Now I could only see in the water, and granted the shots were close, 10 to 20 feet. I couldn't see my bow or arrow and I'll add, Refraction into the equation.
And I rarely missed. If I had to guess, i might miss one out of twenty.
I've tried gap shooting and that worked good to decrease my confidence and get me missing to the left.
I tried sight pins and that opened up my group's to about the size of a paper plate.
And 3 under was very good for shooting about ten feet in front of the target.
So I gave up and went back to shooting like a twelve year old.

You make a great point, Dale.
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Re: Interesting video

#13 Post by Grizzly »

Graps wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2019 10:41 am I wasn't going to chime in on this but this is a case and point of what I always say about " Archery ".
Before I learned to " Shoot properly with perfect form " I could hit anything I could see.
Case and point, I would go out at night with lanterns on my canoe and hunt snapping turtles.
I would shoot them just behind the head because that made it easier to handle them having the head under control.
Now I could only see in the water, and granted the shots were close, 10 to 20 feet. I couldn't see my bow or arrow and I'll add, Refraction into the equation.
And I rarely missed. If I had to guess, i might miss one out of twenty.
I've tried gap shooting and that worked good to decrease my confidence and get me missing to the left.
I tried sight pins and that opened up my group's to about the size of a paper plate.
And 3 under was very good for shooting about ten feet in front of the target.
So I gave up and went back to shooting like a twelve year old.
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