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Main Boards => The Shooters FORM Board => Topic started by: Pete Darby on April 23, 2007, 08:11:00 AM
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After four years of TP I decided I am finally ready to put on a good showing at some matches. So I have been getting ready for last Saturday's archery shoot for the last six months. I have confined myself to one 68" 61# longbow. Friday morning I went to the range to do a little light practice. As I walked up to the shooting line I did my bow inspection and found a missing antler reinforcement on the tip. :( Talk about depressed. I spent the next two hours shooting my old MAII (60" 63#). Shot okay but shooting that heavy riser just didn't feel right. Went home and later decided I would go back and give my Super Shrew (60" 63#) a try. I spent three hours working with it and decided it would be the one. The Shrew came through I finished in the top group and shot in the final shootoff (my goal). The only problem I had was that my sight picture was so ingrained from the first bow that I had to work to shoot low so the fast flat shooting shrew would hit in the right spot. I could pretty much do it on the normal course but in the fast paced shoot off most of my shots were just over the top of where I needed to be. But this weekend in Deleware they better watch out, my sight picture will have adjusted to the little feisty Shrew :thumbsup: .
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Congratulations!! That is good stuff. Going from a 68" bow to a 60" would give me fits for weeks.
Curt
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pete where are you shootin in deleware ?
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Up near Odessa It is an SCA event. Look up SCA East Kingdom events and find Spring Fling. last time I went we had things moving, things up close, thngs far away, things shot quickly and even things where the archer was moving while loosing. I here that this year we will be clinging to the rigging while shooting at another ship "simulated".