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Offline bustr

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Re: Some thoughts on views.
« Reply #15 on: May 17, 2012, 04:42:59 PM »
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Offline Rich52

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Re: Some thoughts on views.
« Reply #16 on: May 17, 2012, 05:37:54 PM »
Well, this may not help you. But if it makes you feel better I cant hit anything either. Not even when I was younger and could see. I use zoom as a crutch, dont line up my lead shots correctly, and shoot from to far away. Its like Wild E Coyote shooting at Roadrunner. I suspect if you dont do what I do you'll be better. And remember what a famous Duck Hunter once said, "if you shoot enough shells somethings bound to go down".
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Re: Some thoughts on views.
« Reply #17 on: May 17, 2012, 05:54:42 PM »
Well, this may not help you. But if it makes you feel better I cant hit anything either. Not even when I was younger and could see. I use zoom as a crutch, dont line up my lead shots correctly, and shoot from to far away. Its like Wild E Coyote shooting at Roadrunner. I suspect if you dont do what I do you'll be better. And remember what a famous Duck Hunter once said, "if you shoot enough shells somethings bound to go down".


  Rich,

  You might be on to something there,shoot enough shells and somethings bound to go down is just another way of saying practice,practice,practice!   I think developing a sight picture is the key but if you change things like monitor size,distance you sit from monitor or change the resolution it all effects your sight picture somewhat.
   As of late I just got a new monitor and I can see the A/C much better and now I find myself shooting back more often when playing target. I still need lots of practice to get my sight picture developed on the new monitor.

    Oh and I never use zoom as it just messes up my aim and lead!


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Re: Some thoughts on views.
« Reply #18 on: May 17, 2012, 08:43:03 PM »
In my teens, some 35 years ago, I did some archering. Not that I would have been good at it, but just like AH the hobby gave me something to do and a feeling of belonging to a group.

One thing I learned was to try to avoid "following the trigger" or something like that; online translators can't find an equivalent for the Finnish term. Anyway, in any kind of shooting it is not preferable to move the weapon at the moment the projectile is on the way out of the weapon. Don't pull the string more while releasing the arrow, don't move the firearm while pulling the trigger, don't turn the plane while firing.


If I understand you correctly, the term we use in English is 'follow-through', although it sounds like its used in a different context. From what I'm hearing, you Finns tell your new shooters what not to do, we tell ours what to do; same thing, different phrasing.


You follow through with your shots, you hold your draw hand back a bit behind your release point and don't move it, you don't let your bow down untill well after the arrow has left the rest.




@ OP, my advice would be to let off the zoom. I know it can be hard to make the change at first, but its well worth it. Either don't zoom in to shoot, and only use zoom to orientate objects in space, when greater detail is nessecary (like when attacking ground targets at times), and when you have a dead-six shot on a distant target.


Alternately, you can zoom out a bit from what you normally do, and slowly ease yourself off of the zoom.
« Last Edit: May 17, 2012, 09:41:29 PM by Tank-Ace »
You started this thread and it was obviously about your want and desire in spite of your use of 'we' and Google.

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Re: Some thoughts on views.
« Reply #19 on: May 17, 2012, 09:27:50 PM »
I just close my eyes and pull the trigger, and boom, thats my secret   :noid
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