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in reply to: Help with instinctive shooting #63763

Gap shooting has the following problems:
You need to know the distance
You need to see the aiming point distinctively and your reference point, whatever it is.
You consciously go around your subconscious memory

Instinctive shooting needs no conscious distance and you don’t need to see the point you want to hit, neither parts of your equipment. You use your subconscious memory. Your problem: The memory is empty. You have to fill it with “trajectory” experience.
Redefining accuracy. There are very few instictive shooters who consistently can shoot at a small spot and hit that spot exactly. But they have kill accuracy, meaning: 1″ off from the spot would have still killed the target.
Here is a training routine that works good:
You start at 5 or 6 yards:
Hang 3 or 4 bunny field targets,shoot one arrow at each.
If you don’t hit within the inner white ring, shoot another arrow at the same target. Then move on to the next, whatever the outcome was and do the same.
Do that until you hit all 3 or 4 in the inner white ring with the first or second arrow repeatetly.
Then go back one yard! and do again! If you’re around 12 yards, then you can broaden your “good zone” to the outer black ring. Same thing, always only move back one yard. Within your training sessions, move back and forth within the distances you already shot.
This routine will fill your sub-conscious memory quite fast with the right memories.
For hunting, shoot in low light conditions at a deer silhouette, because this is what you’ll encounter often in the woods. You don’t need to pick a spot on the silhouette, just shoot where you think the kill is. Do this from different angles and distances to train your brain where to shoot when you can not concentrate on a “mini-spot”, but only see the outline of the deer. You’ll be surprised how good you can kill the deer silhouette even when you can’t see the kill zone anymore….

Bunny target (second link on page:
http://rsengineering.de/How-to/how-to.html

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in reply to: Merino wool pants #63729

David,
you complain about wool that shrinks. Wool was never designed to be washed warm or to be thrown in the hot dryer. Period. Where is the problem in gently machine wash cold with a scentless wool detergent once or twice a season? This is really all that is needed, if at all. Natural wool cleans itself. If you want soft and warm, I would rather switch to cashmere/ wool blends and use Merino underwear. Merino is too fine and not tough enough as outer wear.
If we use natural fibers, it makes a lot of sense staying within its natural limitations. Especially since those garments cost a good chunk of money.
The overwashing is a thing derived from linen or cotton fabrics, which need to be washed on a regular basis, because they don’t have the ability to clean themselves beeing plant fibers.
Washing wool hot will disolve the lanolin in the wool and leave the fiber defenseless. The more you wash, the worse the self cleaning ability of the fiber will be. Wool detergent can only replace a certain amount of lanolin from the wool fiber, some will always be lost.
Asking “synthetic” abilities from natural fibers does not work in the the long-run.

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