So last week I increased the poundage of my bow by 3lbs bring it up to 56lbs peak weight, and cut my arrows down. As a recurve archer I would have expected a massive increase in sight mark, but this didn't happen.
Why?
I sat down and had a think about it wondering why with this amount of poundage my sight marks are comparable with that of a 43lb recurce, ok with my recurve I shot X10's and with the compound slightly heavier ACE's.
So at the end of the club champs I moved my peep sight up, and gained sight mark, it took me a little while to get my head around the result but it makes sense the bow must have been pointing downwards.
The one thing that scares me I'm a coach and it goes to show what little I new about compound archery, I’m starting to agree with people on Interchange, to be able to teach something you need to be able to do it yourself.
So with this in the bag I went down and started a St George this soon changed into practise as I forgot my somewhat broken spotting scope it took several ends to get the arrows in the middle, and it's a long walk well (200yds) down to 100 and back.
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Archery has been my life since the age of 6. After losing heart with the sport over the last few years I have decided to change From Recurve to Compound, This blog is to remind me of where I have come from and where I want to go
About Me
- Philip
- I'm a member of Redruth Archers, and also DCAS CCO. I've been a county judge and currently a coach (level 2 awaiting roll out). Shot Recurve since the age of 6, joined Redruth Archer in 1986. Left Redruth in 1999 and had a brief spell with Archers of the West. Stoped shooting at tournments for a few years came back shooting "properly" in 2004.
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