Cables are in

Got the call I wanted from Quicks my cables are in so it means driving up on saturday and waiting around until they have fitted them. Oh Joy but at least they will be done.

Fingers Hurt

Last night and with my compound out of action for a week or so I went indoors and shot my recurve mainly for some thing to do.

But this morning my fingers really do hurt, I found the weight difficult to manage, I know I've only shot my recurve 3 times since the start of August but really have I lost that much conditioning by shooting compound.

I didn't have my indoor string with me (more strands to slow the arrow down) so I had to aim at 6 O'clock in the 7 / 6 area and still managed to score 562 on my first go which I know is higher than most club members will get this season and higher than where some people have started LOL, it would have been in the 570's with easy but I kept forgeting about aiming low and on a few occasions aimed in the middle to watch the arrow shoot off in the high 7 ring.

But from shooting my recurve last night I know one thing for certain, I will at some stage return to shooting recurve, not this season or maybe next season but I shall return to it.

Out of Action

Went down the field today to shot a FITA weather good, had a look at my cables and my heart sank, I feel it's not safe to shot the bow the idler cable has been cut through by the control cable I can't tell by how much but don't really fance have an exploding compound on my hands. So did a few calls and with the current postal strike it's going to be a week at the earlist when I can get my bow working again.

Uncertainty

At the moment it’s all a learning curve for me and quite a steep on at that. Years of shooting recurve has helped me in lots of aspects of shooting my compound but I now have to think like a compound archer. So thinking like a compound archer I started thinking about draw force curves.

And this has brought a degree of uncertainty, over the past couple of weeks my main goal has been to increase my draw weight to what I will be shooting outside, and to concentrate on what I call the Ba Ba black sheep method and not to trigger the release aid.

So now looking at a draw force curve something has come into my mind, at the start the weight increase then it levels of and then decrease as I go over the Peak, into the valley and then it increases as I pull into and beyond the stops.

So looking at the draw force curve in reverse and taking into effect the results on the arrow by pulling into and against the stops is the arrow doing the following:-
From release a rapid increase in speed, then it [B]Slows down ??[/B] and then an increase in speed again, so should I be shooting somewhere in the middle of the valley or is what I am currently doing ok and what effect will it have on my arrow groups.

I really don’t know?

Coping with Indoors

Last Friday was my first night indoors, in what can only be described as a very dark hall, Richard Lander Hall in Truro.

First problem incounter was that the lighting it was so dark that I couldn't see the bubble in the scope.

The second problem to have a triple spot on the target the top face the ten ring is over a strut for the H frame so on the rare occasions when I do get them on the middle they are into the stand, so the face had to be move so far down it wasn't worth shooting at the bottom target and the top face was so dark I couldn't see it properly. So I aimed at the middle and shot the target out in under 4 dozen.

The committee new in March that out old hall wasn't going to be available so why has it taken so long to find an alternative, and why hasn't an alternative been found and why are we paying a fortune for something that is free and not upto standard.

New Club record

Yesterday I set a new club record hopefully the first one of mainy beat the existing club record by 6points. So I now hold the Short Warwick record well you have to start somewhere

Sight marks

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.