Instinctive "snap" shooting

[jackdaw]

Reddogge....If I was a dedicated Target Archer, I would regroup and learn how to string walk using the point on method......!! HOWEVER...Im interested in the 20 yd in hunter approach. That is really where I  feel snap shooting shines.!!!!! It is one fluid shot process. No one taught it to me, it's just the way I learned how to shoot.

[Three Arrows]

I started in archery with a hand me down Bear Takedown in 1988 using the snap shooting style.  It was all I knew at the time and it worked for me.  As I got to know more people in traditional archery and shot with them, they offered advice.  I ended up with target panic trying to hold at anchor.  It didn't matter if it was a 35 pound bow or 70 pound bow.  I got rid of the target panic by going back to a more fluid snap shooting style and began to love shooting again.  Not everyone can snap shoot and not everyone can hold at anchor.  I was too wrapped up trying to aim that I would stack arrows one minute and completely miss a target by three feet the next!

[oldrubline]

I am trying to return to snap shooting this year after doing the straight arm target style for the past years.  I am going to have to be very careful to not allow target panic to follow me back to the snap shooting style. For me, there are very few chances to take a buck that last for more than a second or two. I want a method that allows me to put all my concentration into focusing on my prey; picking that spot. I dont want to have to think about all the different aspects of the shot sequence in that moment. To me, it is almost like wing shooting when those bucks appear. I am on the ground and have to quickly make a shot as the buck cruises through an opening in the trees. I think this is probably how the native peoples did it...hard to say. It is more enjoyable to me to shoot this way and the way I shot when I was a kid. To each there are own and I respect they guy who can be cool calm and collect as they talk them selves through each aspect of a shot. Me, I can't seem to do that, but still, I will need to put MOST of my practice time into slowly and carefully ingraining my shot sequence on the bale. I am going to pull the arrow till the back of the point touches the bow hand fingers to ensure consistent draw with no short drawing. But, when its time to kill stumps or deer...gonna be all focus on that tuft of hair with the shot happening automatically.

Dan