A couple of thoughts on "aiming" to make a shot

[3kushn]

I have also done pretty well with rifle and pistol but I think that aiming with a pool cue is often more like aiming with a longbow without sights. As a young man I shot a bow enough to be pretty fair with one. There wasn't any particular thing I could remember aligning other than deciding when the arrow was aligned on the flight path to the target. I couldn't say I was sighting any certain way, I just knew when the total image was right after shooting enough times.

Hu

I agree with this, but want to add. I too was pretty fair with a recurve as a kid, even getting to the point to shoot birds and rabbits in flight and one the run. I didn't get to that point until I mounted a single post sight on the bow and shot for several months with it at a field range. Then I took it off forever. Didn't need it anymore.

The sight was my "aiming system" that helped teach me how to aim various shots then it became obsolete as I progressed to moving targets.