How many actually pick a spot?
02-01-2008, 03:42 PM
#72
Dominant Buck
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RE: How many actually pick a spot?
I just feel it's better to concentrate and pick out a spot....ANY spot rather than aim for a general area behind the shoulder.
Simple question, really......if your pin is where you want your arrow to go.....why isn't your pin your spot (much as your bead is your spot when you're iron sighting that 60 yd shot). If you look at your line of fire as a laser.....and your pin is your guide......then you have a good game plan.
I don't mind going agianst the grain on this one. Again.....semantics.
02-01-2008, 05:56 PM
#75
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RE: How many actually pick a spot?
Few more years under your belt and you will understand Frieda.
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
See John....this is what I have a problem with....that somehow...if you don't pick a hair....you're shooting at a "general area". That's simply not the case. What I think (and I say this because I KNOW I have done this in the past) people have problems with....is not checking their anchors, properly, when in the heat of the moment.
Simple question, really......if your pin is where you want your arrow to go.....why isn't your pin your spot (much as your bead is your spot when you're iron sighting that 60 yd shot). If you look at your line of fire as a laser.....and your pin is your guide......then you have a good game plan.
I don't mind going agianst the grain on this one. Again.....semantics.
I just feel it's better to concentrate and pick out a spot....ANY spot rather than aim for a general area behind the shoulder.
Simple question, really......if your pin is where you want your arrow to go.....why isn't your pin your spot (much as your bead is your spot when you're iron sighting that 60 yd shot). If you look at your line of fire as a laser.....and your pin is your guide......then you have a good game plan.
I don't mind going agianst the grain on this one. Again.....semantics.
02-01-2008, 06:37 PM
#76
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Milwaukee WI
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RE: How many actually pick a spot?
Reading all thisI realizethat you're all basically saying the same thing just in a different ways. Language whether written or spoken can be interpreted differently depending on the interpreter. So... the same sentence can be taken differently by two people who in fact are on the same side. Twisted aint it?
I do get what GMMAT is saying though. If you pick a tuft of hair to aim at, your pin covers it up anyway so what's the point in having to pick out that tuft if you already know where your arrow should impact? It's not like those who don't "pick a spot" just put the deer in the pin guard and let loose. They ARE looking at where the pin falls on the body of that deer.
I do get what GMMAT is saying though. If you pick a tuft of hair to aim at, your pin covers it up anyway so what's the point in having to pick out that tuft if you already know where your arrow should impact? It's not like those who don't "pick a spot" just put the deer in the pin guard and let loose. They ARE looking at where the pin falls on the body of that deer.
02-01-2008, 06:40 PM
#77
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RE: How many actually pick a spot?
Actually once I have my pin on the spot I see right through the pin and it disappears right when I am about to let her fly. I am totally focused on a spot but not to the point of a hair.
I find when I have problems practicing is when I am to focused on the pin and not my targeted spot. Im out.
I find when I have problems practicing is when I am to focused on the pin and not my targeted spot. Im out.
02-01-2008, 06:40 PM
#78
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Milwaukee WI
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RE: How many actually pick a spot?
I'm curious,for those of you who don't utilize mechanical sights and always pick a spot... What happens when there isn't a tuft where you need it to be? What if the deer isn'tsome scraggley swamp buck with hair out of place everywhere and all you got is a clean flawless brown coat? Or what if it's 2min before end of legal light and you can't see a single tuft even on the mangiest Louisiana swamp buck? Where do you aim then? Not patronizing, just trying to understand.
