The other night I saw someone had registered with the name GrnMtnTradNut. I checked out the profile and saw the person only lived about 15-20 minutes away from me. So I sent him a PM welcoming him to Trad Gang. Well I learned he is real new to traditional(just wanted the challenge compound wasn't giving him anymore) and after some talking I invited him to my house for some shooting.
Seems a friend of mine from high school works with Chris and had changed completely over to traditional in the last two years and had loaned Chris a 60# bow of his to practice with. Yes Chris was severely over-bowed. Well I received a package in the mail from my friend Robert Painter (twotimer) today that was going to change that for Chris and I hope help him out a lot in the long run.
In the package I got from Robert was a very nice condition Browning Wasp 43@28 56" recurve. A very good weight to learn on and an armguard that came in very handy.
After setting Chris up with his new to him gratis bow, an armguard and a new tab(he is going to be changing to a glove after shooting with me today and seeing mine) we hit the backyard.
Bernie here is your fulldraw pic of Chris.
After watching Chris shoot a few and sacrificing one of my Axis arrows to the stone wall we did some talking about anchor and form. His shooting improved immensely as we progressed and he came to understand what a good draw/release with fingers felt like. We will be shooting weekly for a while and see if we can't get him on target for some venison this fall.
Here's Chris with his haul and trophy arrow.
Funny how someone can live so close and yet out paths never crossed until Trad Gang.
Topic: Old bow, new friend. (Read 646 times)
