who here becomes the arrow?

[Brianlocal3]

For those of you who shoot gapstinctive/instinctive do you visualize the flight of the arrow as Byron Ferguson suggest? I was a more conscience gapper, and then the gaps became ingrained to where I did not think about them any more, but since switching to split finger the gaps are so big up close I have just learned my sight picture, but I have yet to achieve the ability to visualize the flight of the arrow.  Who out there does this?

Not me! I just look at where I want to shoot and my brain tells my left arm (right handed) where to go. I have never been able to consciously gap. If I try to "see" where my arrow is pointing then my vision goes to the point of my arrow and off my target. I too shoot split fingered.

Bisch

[Brianlocal3]

Bisch,
good point, I threw in some un needed info. Without gapping at all, do you visualize the flight path of the arrow?

[Craig]

do you visualize the flight path of the arrow?

I say yes I do. I don't gap shoot, but I can tell by the flight of my arrow if I can make the shot or not. That is if there is a branch in the way of the target I can tell if I'm going to hit it or not.

[Brianlocal3]

craig,
that is what I am after. How did you go about learning that? is it no diffeenrt than ingraining a sight picture? I shoot pretty good id say. Im no Rick Welch or Byron, but I am confident, and since I am comfortable with were I am I want to go to the next  level but I just can not seem to grasp the visualizing part yet