What is instinctive shooting?
A. Instinctive shooting is shooting without conscious adjustment for range. The logic seems to be that if you shoot enough arrows, you’ll eventually learn what the target picture looks like at each range, so you don’t have to think about it. The relationship between `instinctive’ and `gap’ shooting (see below) is a contentious one. There are those that contend that there is no such thing as instinctive archery at all, and that those who claim to shoot that way are really using some variant of `gap shooting’ at a less conscious level. This is a sterile debate, because although people think they’re arguing about archery, they’re really arguing about semantics.
