First time shooting in four years

[Pine]

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.

First shot at 10 yards

[Pine]

Second shot

[Pine]

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

[Gordon Jabben]

Nice, you're back at it. 

[Alexander Traditional]

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

[rastaman]

Awesome!  You will get there!

[Jack Denbow]

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

[Roy from Pa]

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

[supernaut]

Outstanding! 

[kennym]

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

[Trond]

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

[Buck350]

 

[Vroomvroom]

Was hst happened to your shoulder pine ?

[Pine]

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.

[Vroomvroom]

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?

[Wudstix]

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

[Jegs.mich]

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