Focusing on the spot??

[ChuckC]

You can stare at your target all you want, but you still have to do the rest correctly for a good hit.  Sometimes we don't do that well.  

As McDave, I have found that I need to hold for just a tad to establish my aim, or I sometimes shoot too fast, before I am really on the target.
ChuckC

No matter how one aims, keeping the focus dead on an exact spot allows a clear picture for the brain to work with.  If your focus is dancing all over the place, so will the information going into your aim.  Ever stare at a ceiling fan at a high speed? The fan blades are a blur, but every so often you will notice that your eyes will take a snap shot of a single fan blade.  I shoot using a bit of secondary image with what Hill called an 'imaginary' point, when I am shooting really well and my focus on the spot is very tight, my eyes take a secondary image snap shot of the arrow just before I release.  However, in target mode and dumping a quiver load of arrows at a target, I need to slow that all down and get a bit analytical and mechanical with the aim and hold time.  Shooting at game, especially small game, I do much better with about a onethousandone tempo from the beginning of the draw to the release and relying on my focus and that instant secondary vision snapshot for accuracy.  In reality I think that it all is mostly an instinctive reaction.  I have to remember to shoot as hard as I can within the parameters of my form, so that I shoot through the spot and not to the spot.

[Jake Scott]

Focus is the active word here.  Shooting a bow, instinctively or some other method requires a lot of focus.  Denny Sturgis Jr. wrote a great article in TBM not to long ago about shot sequence and reasons we miss.  Regardless of how quickly, or slowly the shot happens, the sequence must be present.  Think of shooting a rifle.  Do you throw up and pull the trigger before you've had time to set the buttstock, aim, then fire???  Not if you want to hit anything.  Shooting a bow is no different.  Regardless of what the sequence is it must be present and non negotiable.  A solid sequence can be performed as quickly or slowly as a hunting situation may require.  Check out Terry Greens videos, his shot is what many people would consider fast, but the SEQUENCE is flawless EVERY TIME.  Rod Jenkins, who I have studied a lot, shoots very slowly and calculated, BUT THE SEQUENCE IS FLAWLESS.

Moving back to focus, focusing intensely on a given spot and intensely on your form simultaneously is a vey hard thing to do.  If the form is ingrained in the subconscious, this frees up a ton of brain power to focus on "the spot".  I am no world champion, and certainly not as good a bow shot as i would like to be, just my opinions, mostly borrowed from folks who can shoot the lights out.

Best of luck

Jake