Gap Shooting With A Recurve Or Longbow

[Night Wing]

I found this excellent 14 minute video on "gap shooting". This video will help anyone, new to bowhunting, learn how to gap shoot with a recurve or longbow. The info presented is clear, concise and in detail. Don't forget to enlarge the video. Enjoy!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgm-oErUEQM&feature=player_embedded"]YouTube - Gapping - The Method to the Madness[/ame]

[huntinpool]

That's how I have been trying to do it. Good video.

[Deb]

I just can't do it that way. Frustrating.

[CHRISM]

Tried gap several times and it feels all wrong as my eyes are co-dominant and somtimes see two arrows and hate closing my left eye.

[Mike Javi Cooper]

I just can't do it that way. Frustrating.

I prefer instinctive myself, but can gap if I work at it a good bit.. The way he's demonstrating is a tried and true method..

[Deb]

I know it's a good method. Draco (I think) posted up some great instructions a while back and I put considerable effort into studying them. I just can't make it happen. The best shooters out there shoot this way (Kanaga, Freeman, Wilson) so I wanted to learn. Oh, well, third and fourth places aren't that bad.

[Mike Javi Cooper]

I know it's a good method. Draco (I think) posted up some great instructions a while back and I put considerable effort into studying them. I just can't make it happen. The best shooters out there shoot this way (Kanaga, Freeman, Wilson) so I wanted to learn. Oh, well, third and fourth places aren't that bad.

Where you trying to do it split finger?

[Deb]

No

[Mike Javi Cooper]

It takes several weeks and even months of diligent effort to reprogram my brain to accept and deal with a major change in shooting a bow.. I'm still having flashbacks to a peep and a sight and I haven't touched a compound in nearly two months..

I just flat don't care for 3 under, even though the bow I'm shooting is tillered for it, so I'm going to stick with what works for me.. If I could comfortably do the 3 under thing, I'd probably go that way especially if I were going to compete at targets or 3D, as it is easier to shoot the gap than to stay proficient with instinctive.

[axisbuck24]

Thanks for posting up the video, I am trying Draco's method and will incorporate some of his ideas in as well. Good news is I am a newbie so nothing feels right.

[Deb]

I cannot shoot an arrow split finger.

[Bisch]

Split-fingered instinctive, for me. I've tried the other way and it was ugly.

Bisch

[one2bowhunt]

I want to know where this 3d range is. it looks like a really cool range

[muzzlebrake]

Tried the 3 under Gap thing and went back to the old both eyes wide open split finger stare a hole in the target method.
I could never get a confidence feel for the gap thing.

[muzzlebrake]

Tried the 3 under Gap thing and went back to the old both eyes wide open split finger stare a hole in the target method.
I could never get a confidence fell for the gap thing.