Longbow to recurve

[ravenwolf]

Hello, how do we shoot a bear super kodiak recurve off the shelf, when the arrow is ALOT futher from hand? compared to a longbow, where arrow is closer to hand? Thoughts? Best to you and yours; Ravenwolf;

[McDave]

Interestingly, when Fred Asbell wrote about longbows in Instinctive Shooting, he voiced the same issue when switching from recurves to longbows, because the way he grips a longbow puts his hand further away from the arrow than when he shoots a recurve.

The answer is, just shoot the thing, and let your brain figure it out.  Most people shoot a recurve with the same natural cant 99% of the time, so any error introduced by the distance between your hand and the arrow is constant, and pretty soon you don't notice it.

Even when you cant your bow more than your normal cant, if you cant your head to match the cant of the bow, the arrow still seems to go where you're looking.  There may be an error or an inch or so, but frankly, if I'm within an inch or so of my mark, I consider it to be a hit.  The error is not an angular error, which would increase with distance, but a constant error, so the 2" error stays 2" as the range increases, so is soon lost in the variety of other errors that I introduce in my shooting.

[Stumpkiller]

Your brain will compensate and, eventually, have your bow arm where it needs to be.  If you switch back and forth it's going to take a few arrows to get back in the groove.

I, too, have my arm closer to the arrow with my recurves.  My longbow (old style grip) makes my wrist hinge while I keep a high wrist with my recurves,

[Terry Green]

For me...I've found its all about the sight picture.

I showed a few people that by holding my bow by the lower fad out and making a kill shot on a 3d.

[ravenwolf]

Thanks to all, for helping me get focused. I want to shoot in my barn this winter. Best to you and yours; Ravenwolf;

[SOLDIERII]

Im a gap shooter and its never been an issue.