| There are a couple of good books - the one I'd recommend is Instinctive Archery Insights (Revised Edition) by Jay Kidwell. If you read that first then any other system can be accommodated (Howard Hill, Byron Ferguson, Asbell etc). Rick Welch's instructional video Volume 2 is incredible but for competitive reasons I cannot shoot 3 under.
My personal view of "instinctive" shooting is to get a system that works and practice until it becomes instinctive. I like to shoot at moving targets and while I'm not consciously aiming my brain is definitely making calculations based on familiar sight pictures/gap distances/arrow trajectory - in other words it is using the same aiming systems that I consciously use for target shooting, only I'm not aware of it.
Make sure that everything else in your usual shooting routine is consistent and eventually your brain does the work. On a field course I always shoot shoot the bunnies instinctively with better results than when I try to figure out gaps. I think the subconscious is amazing and I reckon that's why 3D is so popular in the USA. I nearly always hit the kill zone with the first instinctive shot. Trouble is I just cannot do that four times in a row so I need a repeatable system for field.
The instinctive argument is a hot potato - do a search on the Leatherwall forum where it is debated to death. |