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in reply to: Aiming Methods #40412
SteveMcD wrote: I have to agree. This whole Instinctive thing has a lot of misconceptions. “It’s as easy as throwing a baseball”. Yeah, and we’re all Cy Young Award winners too. I think instinctive is more about the ability to judge yardage, shooting from countless positions and also moving targets. We all use the arrow to one degree or another in determining our sight picture. Over time confidence and maturity develops.
I don’t use my arrow or know where it is. My sight picture is the spot on the target I am aiming at. If I do see an arrow my conscious mind does not realize it, at all. Within two months of starting this method I was busting nocks and even shot a “Robin Hood.” I do not teach gap shooting or split vision at all. when I can get my students to forget about aiming using a reference point on the bow or the arrow tip their shooting improves right away. the trick is to get them close to the target until they get their eye-hand tracking system set and then move them back.
in reply to: Aiming Methods #39532Maybe I am a little slow but until I watched this video it did not click for me.
in reply to: Primitive Spot'n'stalk #9358great video
continuity comment;
You seem to have different numbers of arrows in you quiver at different times. When you pick up your fired arrow you have at least 4 to 5 arrows in the quiver, by the time you find your bear you are down to one arrow in the quiver, then in the closing shots you are back up to 3 or 4 arrows again.
It does not detract from the great camera shots. I really like the bear reflection in your eye just before you take the shot.
one of the better trad archery videos I have seen
in reply to: Improving accuracy #43593As someone that is slowly building my traditional archery skill set; the advise given up to now has been good.
I find that when my groups open up at twenty yards I walk up to 5 yards and shoot a few tight groups, walk back to 10, 15, yards and shoot a few. By the time I am back out to 20 yards again the targeting section of my brain has somehow reset itself.
I think a big part of the “mental” aspect of traditional archery is the confidence factor. Nothing like a few shafts touching groups to build confidence.
in reply to: shooting problems #40926arm guard?
lightly wrapped coban or ace bandage?
rubber bands
in reply to: Cheap targets #34933Save all your old clothes, socks, rags, ect. I stuff them in pet food bags (which I have plenty of). Some pet food bags are almost the same woven synthetic material that Dead Stop uses and has a side view of a big Golden Retriever of the front. Kinda weird shooting pics of dogs and cats but the idea is the same and it’s all free.
in reply to: Custom skinner #33593Have you looked at Bark River knives? Pick a style, steel type, handle material and you are good. Best described as semi-custom they carry a lifetime no questions asked warranty.
I carry a Osage orange handled Kephart for most of my field work although most skinning and butchering I do with a disposable blade scalpel.
http://i1000.photobucket.com/albums/af123/riddleofsteel/KPHFT_Osage_Orange.jpg
in reply to: Deer Calls? Or Just Blowing Hot Air! #33575I have had deer come in to see what the racket was when I was chopping wood. On the other hand, a few years ago,I saw a buck on the ridge above me working a scrape line, I blew a series of light grunts on a Quaker Phantom Buck call and he stopped cold. After turning his head to try and locate the source of the call he dropped his tail and literally ran out of the area. When I related the incident to a friend he compared the incident to; You are walking thru the woods when you hear a strange voice in the woods. Who knows in “deer talk” what that grunt meant? Maybe I was hollering “I am gonna kick your butt.”
At any rate other than rattling in a buck every couple of years during pre-rut most of my white tail calling has been either negative or zero effect. Until I see different I see silence as much more effective.
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