Dennis, not sure if you've watched Clay Hayes' "The Push" on YouTube, but he gets into using a fixed crawl towards the end of the film. I was very intrigued and meant to try it but then the SHTF here and messed up my practice routine and I figured I'd best go back to shooting instinctive. It sounds like a pretty good bulletproof aiming system for distances out to 40 yards:Longbowfanatic wrote:I don't have a set number of arrows I shoot daily. It really depends on what I'm working on at the time. In the winter, I try to correct some of the issues I had the previous 3-d or hunting season. Like this winter, I want to work on setting one of my bows up for a 25 yard point on for gap shooting. I've never been good a gap shooting, so this will be a challenge. If it's a regular summer day, I might shoot 50-75 arrows a day. I might shoot Walk Backs or hang out on three or four different bunks and shoot groups. Then some days I will walk the 15 3-d target course and just shoot without practicing on the bunks. Anything to beat the menotany of shooting one way all the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E1vKkSSoNs
I used to gap, but being right-handed (very strongly) and left eye dominant, I had to close my right eye to gap which gave a 2D sight picture, although I honestly shot tighter groups at fixed distances...not so much when I would mix it up. And deer don't wait around while you whip out the tape measure, as a rule
The problem I encountered with gapping is that you need: a) to know your distance to target with a foot or two, and b) you need a reference point to judge the gap. It all works quite well on the target range at a fixed distance with a stationary target butt. Not so much in the field for me.