Aiming strategies

[LineCutter]

Originally Posted by Marcus26

I never ever ever aim off (on purpose) even in heavy wind. I always cant my bow into the wind and use the bubble to determine the correct amount of cant.

But I don't have a bubble on my recurve sight!

[Marcus26]

I believe that you can't shoot any better than you can aim,

Truer words have never been spoken.

Most of Australia's best recurve archers use a dot BTW. The Titan scope was designed because Dave Barnes wanted a compound style fibre without a post interupting the view of the target.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by rgsphoto

I'm going to give the black dot a try, the "suck holes" are always a problem to me as I do tend to aim at the holes, wherever they are.

RGS, have you tried the big dot yet? How did you get on?

Adam

Originally Posted by Adam

RGS, have you tried the big dot yet? How did you get on?

Adam

Hi Adam,

Yes I did, mixed feel really, to most people I can see it would work well. I used a dot about 4mm. It tended to make me over aim. I also ended up looking at the dot instead of the target. For these reasons I took it off. I would not even consider one outdoors. Outdoors I see no advantage of a dot. The over aiming thing is a spin off of target panic. In my case I need to make aiming as less centre focused as possible. The dot was like a red rag to a bull to my subconscious mind to just mess it all up. But that's just me.

Cheers, Rich

[Adam]

Originally Posted by rgsphoto

The dot was like a red rag to a bull to my subconscious mind to just mess it all up. But that's just me.

Just goes to show, there's no universal panacea in this game.

Adam

Originally Posted by Adam

Just goes to show, there's no universal panacea in this game.

Adam

Yep, well are all different. or in my case probably just awkward!

[cliveanne]

Originally Posted by Cakemeister

One of my problems at the moment is aiming- I have a habit of focusing on the red at about 4.00 & have to force myself to move onto the gold. I know aiming should be subliminal- but I've also found that I shoot better when I'm consciously thinking about the gold (sounds obvious)- is there a way of altering my mindset other than painful electrotherapy?

You focus on the Red at 4:00. The way I'm reading this, you have to raise the bow to the Gold? Why not keep the sight central (12:00) & let gravity bring the bow down to the gold...then let rip.

[Bald Eagle]

I had trouble with my Hoyt compound bow holding steady on the gold, I would always come up just below in the red and that's where it stayed! I would have to physically force my bow arm upwards to get it on the gold. After playing around with the tiller, yes, tiller on a compound bow, 1/8th on the top limb made the bow "pivot" better in my hand and it seemed to float to the centre every shot.I now shoot Bowtech and the problem has gone.