Has anyone had the chance to go to Bob Wesley's Whisperin' Pines Shooting School?  I've been thinking of attending but was wondering if anyone here has any input.

Joe

I'm curious about this also....
I'm sending a MO for the book tomorrow....

shooting school?

I'll watch this one too, thanks !

I've thought about it too.  This could be a good thread if someone has actually gone and would tell about it!

I have 2 friends , a Father and son that went .They are some of the best shooters I know..Bob of course was taught by Howard Hill, just talking about this makes me want to shoot a Hill style bow...               Bob is located in Pittsboro, North Carolina for yalls information...

Anyone have any additional info on this skool?  I have done google searches and can't find squat.  Is there a web site?

go too...
www.dakotabows.com

Oooops....Sorry the above school is not the one mentioned in the above post, It's a good school but not the one were talking about....
   Here's the e-mail address that will get you in contact with Bob Wesley weshood@aol.com

Anyone read his book or see his video?

We have a guy on the Howard Hill email list who went and speaks very highly of it.   I have the book and video.  They're  good.  
Here is a link to his web site:

http://hometown.aol.com/weshood/myhomepage/index.html

The school is called Whispering Pines.

It's pretty expesive at around $400, plus local lodging.  Either three or four days.   In my case, when you add travel from the west coast, it's out of the question.  If i lived down south, I'd try it.  Oh, yeah... it's in NC.

He starts you out putting markers at aiming points and making a table of all your distances, then has you shoot till you forget about where the markers are.   I may be doing it an injustice, but it seems like every other system except Asbell's... start with gap and train toward instinctive or split vision or whatever you call it.    I've gotten to where I think what I'm doing is split vision, but it took me well over a year of doing a lot of shooting on my own.  I'd have gone to a school instead of buying another bow if there had been one here on the west coast.

Dick in Seattle

My wife and I went and learned alot great people.  He uses a kind of gap shooting and he is a world champion so he really knows how to shoot.  If you aim you can't go wrong there.

Hi guys,
I attended Bob's school before he relocated.
Don't recal which year maybe 1999.

I shoot more in the look at what you want to hit method.
Bob teaches the Hill method. He was friends with Howard and has a lot of his stuff like the videos.
Bob wesely is a true gentleman. He helped me work on form along with other shooting basics.

I tried the split vision method and can see how a person could shoot well in tournaments using it. But I just enjoy the what I'll call more instinctive style.

Bob had a 3D range set up on some property he owned. We'd walk the paths and set up diferent shot scenerios. We also got into shooting disks out of the air. Bob videos your progress and you take that with you for reference.

It was a one on one but he might take 2 at a time. excellent lunches prepaired by his wife.

If you can afford the school I recommend it just for the experience if nothing else. If you lean towards the gap method so much the better.
Ron

I went acouple years ago. Great school and a ture gentlmen. Most eveything has been said already, I would just add, I would do again.

I went when he was in Mississippi, dito those above, I'd go again.

I shoot split vision and its definately worth learning. I am also left eye dominate and shoot right handed.

Thanks for all your input guys    


Joe