It's funny this topic is coming up in more than one forum right now...
I do, I practice instinctive shooting, well I have started again practising instinctive shooting, I hadn't shot in nearly six years and started again three days ago taking about 60 arrows a day. I went not surprisingly from barely hitting the A4 sheet I taped to a wad of sofa foam and shooting from one end of the house out the back door up to the back alley door...It's impossible for me to shoot over the door from the angles in the house...
Only today (3rd day) was I getting consistent aluminium clinking on aluminium noises again...
I was taught to use sights with modern recurve bows, having gone through a course on it, as soon as the course was over, I moved the sights to the box and started just to shoot. At that time my form was much better.
Today I noticed my shoulders are high on the release arm...I will be working on form for the next few months. But I am hoping to get some proper arrows soon, these things are so bent I am surprised I am getting any consistency in them.
I posted else where recently what my old routine for training was to help me develop my shooting, and after doing it for a year there was a hell of a difference.
Here it is...
I have done the blind shooting, and was even considering it this morning in my home range, but I have not long been shooting again so I am going to wait on that.
Anyway, here are a few things that helped me when I was learning.
When shooting in london, I had keys to my outdoor range, so I would cycle up in the morning, and shoot from an hour or so before sun rise training in all sorts of crazy ways, I was always the only one there so going to the centre of a field was pretty safe...
1, Start with ten yards, but my target was at 50 yards, I just walked up...
2, Walk back further and further each time, throwing a rugby ball and going to where it lands, left right what ever...
3, Start walking side to side more I did this mainly around 30 yard distances. and not further out than 30 degrees.
4, At twenty yards, I start speed shooting, from a back quiver, I once got off 6 shots in about 8 seconds.
5, Shooting whilst walking, side to side forward and back. I never did this further than 30 yards.
6, Kneeling shots, a kneeling posture (think tripod)in woodland settings is a lot more stable than two legs over branches and stones.
7, I did not shoot moving targets, but only because I had no safe way of utilising a person in order to help me arrange it. But you can rig up a kids slide, with wooden pin holding up a watermelon or something and pull it with string tied to your foot...one roll per six arrows, otherwise it's just too much walking around.
Oh, if you are moving around all over the ground in front of you, do not move on again until you hit a centre gold at least a few times.
In addition, shoot once a day every day, even if it's just six arrows, concentrate on perfect breathing first, then perfect form each time. It reminds your body that these are important muscles that should be ready any time day or night with no warm up. You will end up being looser and better quite quickly.
One more thing,
Term paper...Not for school, but for me, My personal coach instructed that her students write down every detail of how we shoot, then write down every detail on how we should shoot. I am not sure if it helped physically but it makes you look at every detail of your form and helps you realise you need to work on. And preparing the mind is probably the most important thing in shooting.
That was all basically, but I just had a thought.
All the debates about instinctive shooting being BS recently makes me wanna challenge competition aimers to a duel with instinctive shooters...
If only that was legal eh...
I do also shoot with a caty, but I put a hell of a lot more emphasis on being able to aim with it for some reason, lining strings up and judging heights etc...
Editted to add, the video link got in as I was typing, I love that video...PROOF that instinctive shooting exists, yay.