How many actually pick a spot?
02-01-2008, 06:55 PM
#81
Giant Nontypical
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Location: Central Minnesota
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RE: How many actually pick a spot?
Being I shoot a recurve I pick my spot and stare that spot down until the arrow is released and in the animal. Its pretty simple logic but allot of times people have a tough time with this though. To often hunters are looking at the deer or the area they want to hit instead of aiming concentrating at the spot.
02-01-2008, 07:00 PM
#82
Bartender
Join Date: Feb 2003
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RE: How many actually pick a spot?
Steve you ever play soft tip darts? If you are good when you are picking your spot/hole on the soft tip board you never really see the dart until it is in the air, You know what I mean? So focused on your targe.
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02-01-2008, 07:08 PM
#84
Giant Nontypical
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RE: How many actually pick a spot?
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ORIGINAL: Schultzy
Being I shoot a recurve I pick my spot and stare that spot down until the arrow is released and in the animal. Its pretty simple logic but allot of times people have a tough time with this though. To often hunters are looking at the deer or the area they want to hit instead of aiming concentrating at the spot.
Being I shoot a recurve I pick my spot and stare that spot down until the arrow is released and in the animal. Its pretty simple logic but allot of times people have a tough time with this though. To often hunters are looking at the deer or the area they want to hit instead of aiming concentrating at the spot.
02-01-2008, 08:40 PM
#87
Dominant Buck
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RE: How many actually pick a spot?
I just picked a spot and think im going to set in it and drink a beer while reading the rest of this tread. Too much saw dust in my britches, been out carving bows. So I guess ill be picking atsome other spots aswell.
02-01-2008, 09:42 PM
#89
Boone & Crockett
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RE: How many actually pick a spot?
I don't pick a spot, I go through a process in my head though.
From the bottom of the deer, following the leg up from where it meets the body;
"Three inches up, two inches back, hold, hold, release."
From the bottom of the deer, following the leg up from where it meets the body;
"Three inches up, two inches back, hold, hold, release."
02-01-2008, 09:52 PM
#90
Site Bouncer
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RE: How many actually pick a spot?
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.
Also, gun sights and bow sights are two very different beasts. Witha gun sight, younever coverthe target. Your bead is NOT your spot. After a sight picture is obtained you place the impact point (your spot) just above the sight like the graphic below.
If you happen to be shooting an older shotgun with a single bead (like a bird gun) you still employ the same method as mentioned above it's just there isn't a second point of alignment. Newer shotguns with two beads, one in the middle and one at the end of the barrel should be "stacked" and your "spot" placed on top of the beads (like the pic above).
Now a bow sight is different and it's sighted differently too. First off, when I draw, I'm not even thinking about my anchor points....That's what practice and repetition is for....muscle memory. No, I'm looking at my target, my "spot" I place the correct yardage pin on that spot. At this time I am so focused on that minute impact point my pin is almost a blur. I'm concentrating solely on my "spot".
I think Fraley said this as well. I'm not thinking about my pin because I know it's lined up with my lineof sight and I'm staring right at my tuft of hair, muscle crease, scar, burr, or whatever it may be. Then, when the time is right, I release my arrow.
Jeff, answer this if you would....If you're not aiming at a specific point, then what are you aiming at?