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Title: First time shooting in four years
Post by: Pine on March 15, 2025, 04:35:36 PM

Well,  I'm going to admit I have been putting this off because I was afraid I couldn't shoot good enough to satisfy me.
I have a 35# Super Griz and a couple months ago I was able to draw it back with no pain in my  string hand. ( Had hand surgery August 1st 2024 )
Today I pulled the Super Griz back and held for a few seconds and no pain.
Nice day outside so no excuse.
Put on my shooting glove and grabbed one arrow.
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First shot at 10 yards

Title: Re: First time shooting in four years
Post by: Pine on March 15, 2025, 04:36:23 PM

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Second shot

Title: Re: First time shooting in four years
Post by: Pine on March 15, 2025, 04:38:35 PM

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3rd shot and notice the bottle cap is blowing slightly to the right.
My hand is starting to hurt so I quit.

Title: Re: First time shooting in four years
Post by: Gordon Jabben on March 15, 2025, 04:49:49 PM

Nice, you're back at it. 

Title: Re: First time shooting in four years
Post by: Alexander Traditional on March 15, 2025, 05:04:58 PM

Nice,looks like you're getting closer with each shot  :archer2:

Title: Re: First time shooting in four years
Post by: rastaman on March 15, 2025, 06:48:21 PM

Awesome!  You will get there! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Title: Re: First time shooting in four years
Post by: Jack Denbow on March 15, 2025, 06:54:18 PM

Good job Dale. Just take it slow and easy, you don't want to injure any of those mussels that haven't been used in 4 years.
Jack

Title: Re: First time shooting in four years
Post by: Roy from Pa on March 16, 2025, 04:43:16 AM

Awesome Dale.
Take your time and it will get better.

Title: Re: First time shooting in four years
Post by: supernaut on March 16, 2025, 09:32:07 AM

Outstanding!  :archer2:

Title: Re: First time shooting in four years
Post by: kennym on March 16, 2025, 01:07:49 PM

That’s great! Do a little at a time and enjoy!!

Title: Re: First time shooting in four years
Post by: Trond on March 17, 2025, 02:04:43 AM

Nothing much that beats the feeling you get when your arrow finds it target  :clapper: Keep shooting, and you'll get there.

Title: Re: First time shooting in four years
Post by: Buck350 on March 21, 2025, 04:27:58 PM

 :clapper:

Title: Re: First time shooting in four years
Post by: Vroomvroom on March 21, 2025, 05:02:25 PM

Was hst happened to your shoulder pine ?

Title: Re: First time shooting in four years
Post by: Pine on March 21, 2025, 09:27:45 PM

I had a dislocated tendon I'm my right shoulder and my Chyropractor got it straightened out in about 6 months.
My right hand, the middle finger had a bad contracture that I had repaired.
When shooting this time my palm started ache a little so I  stopped shooting. Didn't want to push it.

Title: Re: First time shooting in four years
Post by: Vroomvroom on March 22, 2025, 05:17:12 AM

Not to hijack the thread. But that’s a question I have. I understand the bow drawing shoulder giving issues from drawing a bow.  Do many have trouble with the other shoulder very often?  I have painful shoulders for a long time. Nothing to do with drawing the bows and fortunately the action of drawing the bow doesn’t bother me. At least not yet.  I think I hurt them weight lifting when I was 20.  And I use to log starting out. Back then it was chainsaw and piling the 8 foot pulpwood.  We use pulp hooks.  You stab it in the log and pull. But the pulling action don’t bother me as much as pushing. And pushing over shoulder height.  Even laying in bed a certain way.   Yours didn’t get hurt shooting bow though did it?

Title: Re: First time shooting in four years
Post by: Wudstix on March 26, 2025, 09:56:03 PM

That gives me a bit of encouragement.  I've been dormant for too long.
 :campfire: :coffee: :archer2: :campfire:

Title: Re: First time shooting in four years
Post by: Jegs.mich on March 27, 2025, 02:16:31 PM

For the guys with shoulder trouble. I damaged my shoulder wrestling, weight lifting and working. My shoulders will knot up and start pinching nerves. I use this homemedics shiatsu massage pillow to keep them loose you set it on your chair and grind it right in to the shoulders. I believe it is designed for lower back but it works very well