Archery

ps3ud0 said:
12months isnt long IMHO! Hell if you only shoot once a week at best that might be 52 sessions at getting good enough to spend quite a far bit on money on top end limbs. Expect to buy those limbs you are getting again in a years time. Just be prudent as it just sounds like youll might keep adding poundage to take advantage of the exchange program and might lose focus on honing the technique.

Im still pretty crap, but hell I doubt Id be as good as I am know just after a year of shooting and I dont consider myself near competition-ready :eek:

ps3ud0 :cool:
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I know what you're saying. I'm hoping and expecting to shoot at least 3 times a week...wife dependent! I haven't made any final decisions yet of course, but the folks at Aim4Sport have been very helpful to me so far, so I feel some allegiance to them.
 
Havana_UK said:
Well done! Best in your club too by the look of it :) I hope to start shooting in competitions once I've got a few months' experience under my belt.
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Thanks allot mate. I haven't shot since the competition due to weather/holiday. Feels really weird, getting withdrawal symptoms.

Competitions are good but basically even in a competition your shooting against yourself. I didn't know until the results were released 3 days latter how I had done.
 
Shooting this morning, did 15 arrows for a 136, then started another 15. One hit the compound 10. Shot another, heard a nasty crack noise.
end result.........


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one written of XX75. It was hit that hard that it pushed the point out!!
 
Why you shooting inside, when we have this amazing weather?

Also how far was that?

Tried for my 80yds 252 but failed on the last 2 ends and only got 238. Oh well. Try try again.
 
Robertnpmk said:
Why you shooting inside, when we have this amazing weather?

Also how far was that?

Tried for my 80yds 252 but failed on the last 2 ends and only got 238. Oh well. Try try again.
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shooting inside as its at local sports centre, only 17yd but its great practice for getting my setup right.
struggling with bad fatigue at moment, plus if I was out in the sun, get t hot & my MS gets bad. Will start shooting in the evenings soon.
Have to say that moving from a wrist release to a back tension release, the target panic has dropped off big time.
I need to get out side soon anyway. Need practice at 70 & 80yds
 
Robertnpmk said:
You shooting alloys with your compound and not carbon?
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yep, XX75 inside. Great in 2016 spine for line cutters.
shoot FMJ's outdoor. Less effect from the wind plus they can be found with the metal detector being carbon wrapped alloy. The XX75's are nice & cheap, £6 for a nocked & point fitted shaft.
 
Target panic is a pain, when I was just starting with my higher weight bow I kept releasing before I was ready.

I started drawing with my eyes closed and only opening them when I had my full anchor.
 
Robertnpmk said:
Target panic is a pain, when I was just starting with my higher weight bow I kept releasing before I was ready.

I started drawing with my eyes closed and only opening them when I had my full anchor.
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on the wrist release I was pulling at the trigger which was affecting my shot. With the new release, I just keep tension in place, then slowly roll my hand back till it goes off.
its made a big difference to keeping groupings nice & small hence todays robin hood.
 
Had an horrific session last night. Had planned to shoot for 2 hours, but after getting stuck in traffic on the way for an hour and desperately needing to pee by the time I arrived I must have been a bit worked up. First couple of ends were decent enough but then my form went to ****. Ended up really frustrated and only stuck at it for an hour because that was the minimum I was paying for.

Didn't help that I gave myself three really good string whacks on the arm either.

How do / did the rest of you cope with set-backs like these? I felt things were progressing well up until this point!
 
A similar thing happened to me on Saturday. A fellow archer put me off and I couldn't get my head back in the game.

The best thing to do is to let it go, (Which you should be doing after each arrow). And Just concentrate on the next arrow not the one you have just shot. Its happened, its done and theres nothing you can do about it now.

I read somewhere/heard somewhere somebody say. Never think about what you did wrong just concentrate when you do it right and try and repeat.
 
Robertnpmk said:
The best thing to do is to let it go, (Which you should be doing after each arrow). And Just concentrate on the next arrow not the one you have just shot. Its happened, its done and theres nothing you can do about it now.
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Thanks Robert. That's why I decided to give up earlier than planned and walk away. I didn't want to spend another hour getting things wrong (and hurting my arm even more!) and feel even more disheartened as a result.
 
Havana_UK said:
Thanks Robert. That's why I decided to give up earlier than planned and walk away. I didn't want to spend another hour getting things wrong (and hurting my arm even more!) and feel even more disheartened as a result.
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That's fine for practice but I would find another way of doing it as you can't walk away in the middle of a comp.

Do you normally hit your arm? I don't even wear an arm guard.
 
Robertnpmk said:
Do you normally hit your arm? I don't even wear an arm guard.
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I went through the first 4 weeks of my beginner's course without hitting it once, then starting in week 5. On my first shoot outside of the course I hit it almost every shot (nasty bruises resulting), second shoot I didn't hit it at all, then last night (third shoot) I whacked it three times out of eight six-arrow ends. Just all three were REALLY good whacks :(

I know why I'm hitting it - not turning my elbow out enough - but I'm also trying to work on my overall positioning and anchor points too. I get two things right and one thing wrong at the moment!

After my second shoot I felt really good, things went well. My technique improved all night, my grouping got better and much more consistent. Just feeling grumpy because everything seemed to go wrong last night :)
 
Havana_UK you are going through the same things we all have gone through and will continue to go through as we try to improve ourselves.

Archery can be so frustrating, last Friday it was a practice shoot outside and I had set my sights ready for the Long Metric II and then on Sunday the shoot day everything had changed - go figure. Was it my anchor ? Was it my draw ? Was it my stance ? Who knows, but it took a couple of ends before I got my act together.

To ruin my Sunday, I snapped one of my ACC arrows when I missed the Boss and hit the metal anchor peg :-(

Just stick with it and you will find very quickly that it will never be the same thing twice
 
Havana_UK said:
One other thing that I realised today...I'm still using hire equipment from the shop, and ended up with a different bow to the one I normally shoot last night. Just wondering if that threw things off slightly.
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This will make a huge difference.

The poundage of the bow could be different. the brace height could be different.
etc etc etc. This goes on.

My bow which only I use can change from session to session.
 
Robertnpmk said:
This will make a huge difference.

The poundage of the bow could be different. the brace height could be different.
etc etc etc. This goes on.

My bow which only I use can change from session to session.
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Thats why i like my compound bow ;)
It just goes in the bag when done, no faffing. Come to shoot, out of the bag, check sight & nocking point/d-loop, long rod on then shoot :)

I used to find that if bow arm shoulder wasnt dropped, then i'd hit my arm more often & it hurts! Now my bow is just about right for backtension release, my arm is well clear of being hit.
 
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