Super Shrew to the rescue "Thanks Ron"

[Pete Darby]

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    .

[Anvil]

Congratulations!! That is good stuff. Going from a 68" bow to a 60" would give me fits for weeks.
Curt

[keith brimmer]

pete where are you shootin in deleware ?

[Pete Darby]

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".