Gday Guys
This is a late reply to SA Spearo and others to let you know My Ideas on accurate shooting related to rifle, shotgun, bow, speargun
Aiming with a rifle is aiming using a scope or a rear sight and front sight and alignining these to each other then with the target, with a shotgun , bow (BareBow- no sights) and speargun we have no rear sight -(generally) for a shotgun the Stock is shaped to align your eye in the same place every time with the same gun holding position (Mounting) with a bow you use a HOLD position ie. to put your little finger in the corner of your mouth - thumb on your ear etc. -this positions the rear end of arrow in the same position relative to your eye and front of arrow then you just focuss on your target and shoot basically instinctively after a bit of practice you get pretty good at it with no concious aiming .
with a speargun you have to shoot at all different angles to your body to get around rocks or shoot up at fish overhead down at fish directly below etc etc as fish appear where they appear and you dont have time to always position your body to suit where the fish is -any movement may spook the fish
so you need to learn to shoot from alll weird positions when spearing and just try to learn a sight picture ie roughly how high above the axis of the shaft should my eye be for a given distance and elevation of target.
Hope this helps - but I havent got it sussed right yet I seem to shoot uder fish sometimes - usually when I try to aim
Regards Peter
