Another little trick is to turn your frame upside down after your shot fires and while the bands still are flopping around post-shot, and while your frame-arm is on its way back to stage loading the next shot. More often than, not the bands reset themselves. Also, One benefit of using thinner bands and an ammo heavier than the bands are gauged for, is that you can shoot with the bands twisted and it won’t have as significant an effect on the flight path of the shot. Just some other tricks for those learning.
Interesting, I've never considered this as a potential problem. Maybe because I'm hunting oriented I treat each shot as a separate event - a couple of seconds, minutes or hours between shots doesn't matter. With my shooting (bow, gun or slingshot) once I am in stance, I "lock onto" the (tiny) spot I want to hit and there is there is a brief moment of intense focus as I shoot. From the "lock" and committing to shoot to taking the shot is (usually) under a second. My situational awareness returns, I reload and am ready to take the next shot. What happens between shots ( like setting the bands) has no bearing on the next shot because the brief period of focus excludes anything and everything from distracting me duringthe second that I'm actually shooting. I think that it helps that it's my subconscious that actually releases the shot. I know that when I manually override my subconscious and consciously shoot I'm never as accurate. Think subconscious shooting is instinctive shooting and that is achieved by practicing. IMHO, to practice properly (to program the subconscious) you need to see every shot (sight picture and impact) and shooting paper is the best way to do that. It is no good if you shoot, miss and have no idea where the shot went - that undermines your confidence and seriously impacts your ability to shoot instinctively. When I teach people to shoot I have them start close (like 10 feet) and move the target back as consistency, accuracy and confidence improves. Been doing that for decades and it has always worked well. Sorry to ramble, thanks for posting these videos Nathan!
This was my question. Great answer, I'm definitely gonna practice drawing my finger up the bands.
Thanks for the question! Have fun!
Another little trick is to turn your frame upside down after your shot fires and while the bands still are flopping around post-shot, and while your frame-arm is on its way back to stage loading the next shot. More often than, not the bands reset themselves. Also, One benefit of using thinner bands and an ammo heavier than the bands are gauged for, is that you can shoot with the bands twisted and it won’t have as significant an effect on the flight path of the shot. Just some other tricks for those learning.
Great info! Thanks for sharing.
Interesting, I've never considered this as a potential problem. Maybe because I'm hunting oriented I treat each shot as a separate event - a couple of seconds, minutes or hours between shots doesn't matter. With my shooting (bow, gun or slingshot) once I am in stance, I "lock onto" the (tiny) spot I want to hit and there is there is a brief moment of intense focus as I shoot. From the "lock" and committing to shoot to taking the shot is (usually) under a second. My situational awareness returns, I reload and am ready to take the next shot. What happens between shots ( like setting the bands) has no bearing on the next shot because the brief period of focus excludes anything and everything from distracting me duringthe second that I'm actually shooting. I think that it helps that it's my subconscious that actually releases the shot. I know that when I manually override my subconscious and consciously shoot I'm never as accurate. Think subconscious shooting is instinctive shooting and that is achieved by practicing. IMHO, to practice properly (to program the subconscious) you need to see every shot (sight picture and impact) and shooting paper is the best way to do that. It is no good if you shoot, miss and have no idea where the shot went - that undermines your confidence and seriously impacts your ability to shoot instinctively. When I teach people to shoot I have them start close (like 10 feet) and move the target back as consistency, accuracy and confidence improves. Been doing that for decades and it has always worked well. Sorry to ramble, thanks for posting these videos Nathan!
Paper is a great target as it doesn't lie or trick you. You know where you hit.
I find it's more of a problem with OTT shooting. I shoot TTF.
You are 100% correct.