So I have an interesting development. I recently purchased a new 56 in Cascade Whitetail hawk from Steve Gore. All my life I have been a dedicated Black Widow shooter, and they serve me well. This is my first dedicated attempt with a short bow. I practiced until I could shoot it okay, but went out grouse hunting and couldn't hit anything. I missed 5-6 grouse, some as close as 10 yards. It really hurt my confidence. Went out grouse hunting again yesterday morning, and threw my Black Widow recurve in the truck as well. I didn't see any grouse, but stumbled across a bull moose at about 40 yards. A legal bull, and I had a harvest ticket in my pocket, holy cow!! . I grabbed the Black Widow and worked my way up towards it,, and could have taken a shot, but my confidence was so wrecked that I decided not to. After the moose ran away, I started stump shooting with the Widow, and hit every leaf, stump, and dirt clod that I shot at. Clearly, I'm doing something with the shorter bow that wasn't working. So... In the context of this thread... I took the short bow out last night and did a lot of shooting in the dark. Strangely enough, I was able to walk around shooting an old coffee can from 15 to 30 yards with the short bow, with no trouble hitting it. Evidently, there is something about my concentration that is resolving itself when I shoot in the dark versus in the light. To be fair, the new short bow is only 50 lb, and my Widow recurve is about 65 lb, and it's what I have been shooting since January. So, there's a good chance I'm also overdrawing the short bow. But it is interesting that I was able to shoot it so well in the dark after a few days of shooting the same bow so terrible awful bad.
Topic: Shooting in the dark, or very low light (Read 3603 times)
