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This will not be of interest to the seasoned gap shooters but it was of interest to me.
I posted a while back about shooting the same gap from 15m to 38m and thought the results were abnormal. Many pointed out it was common knowledge that an optical illusion takes place.
So I shot from distances with my focus on the actual arrow tip to get the following gaps, distances in meters and gap in inches.
5m 10"
7m 12"
10m 14"
15m 16"
20m 17"
23m 17"
25m 18"
30m 10"
35m 2"
40m -6"
This just showed me that when focusing on the arrow as opposed to focusing on the target point to be hit gives very different results. I know you all knew this this but it was revealing to me!
Here is a picture of the target at 35m, the bottom arrows are when I focused on the arrow point lined up with the bottom of the bag. The higher arrows are focusing on the middle of the cross with the arrow tip sort of blurred but also at what seemed to be the bottom of the bag.
I posted a while back about shooting the same gap from 15m to 38m and thought the results were abnormal. Many pointed out it was common knowledge that an optical illusion takes place.
So I shot from distances with my focus on the actual arrow tip to get the following gaps, distances in meters and gap in inches.
5m 10"
7m 12"
10m 14"
15m 16"
20m 17"
23m 17"
25m 18"
30m 10"
35m 2"
40m -6"
This just showed me that when focusing on the arrow as opposed to focusing on the target point to be hit gives very different results. I know you all knew this this but it was revealing to me!
Here is a picture of the target at 35m, the bottom arrows are when I focused on the arrow point lined up with the bottom of the bag. The higher arrows are focusing on the middle of the cross with the arrow tip sort of blurred but also at what seemed to be the bottom of the bag.
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