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I've got a hunch.... Have you?

       I've got a hunch, and it's about shooting a longbow in the hunting Hill method versus the commonly taught, current target style of shooting which has been incorporated into the methods of longbow shooting as taught on various mediums.  The hunch...  Hill had one...  I shoot with a hunch, do you?       What is the hunch?  I liken it to what Hill said when he said he shot his bows and arrows like you "shoot 'em with a shotgun".  If you take one of his photos...and pick one because there's many, he is in the posture of a shotgun swinging clay shooter or bird hunter.  Rounded shoulders, head tilted downward and eye over the arrow, bow arm is low and supportive like he's holding the forestock of his gun.        Hill is "hunched" over.  Notice how low his bow arm is coming from the shoulder socket.  Bob Wesley keyed on this factor as vital to the Hill form.  Schulz shows it but didn't elaborate on it much.  But the hunch is there.  It's

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