Instinctive shooting is the common style for longbow, stick bow, and recurve bow. As a recurve bow owner, I enjoy instinctive shooting because it's a more traditional way of using your own natural senses to aim. It takes a lot of practice and repetition to be able to develop your own accuracy through consistent shooting. The aiming method for instinctive shooting relies on where you position the tip of your arrow in relation to where your target is, and will take developing a skill of where to place the arrow to aim at different distances. This will definitely take some time to learn, and you will possibly have more missed shots and broken arrows when you're beginning. Sight shooting is faster to learn because its aiming method relies much more on lining up the shot similar to using a rifle. Compound bows are used for sight shooting. Aiming is done by lining the target up trhough the peep sight on the string, the sighting circle, and the aiming pins at the front. Depending on the distance of your target, you can move the bow slightly up and down to place the correct pin on your target. Sight shooting works well with a compound bow because the weight required to hold the string is reduced after you initially draw it all the way back. This allows you to take your time lining up the shot, whereas with a recurve bow you would be holding the full draw weight the entire time. I find it relaxing and exciting to develop my archery skills through instinctive shooting, but others prefer the precision of sight shooting. Find which style works best for you!