League Report – 061311
by Chris on Jun.14, 2011, under Shooting Journal
Tonight was the first time I shot in the 50 yard outdoor league at Sylvan. We shot the large FITA face at 50 yards, which makes it just like the second leg of a 900 round.
I am still using the new anchor point, with my middle knuckle on the point of my jawbone and my bow arm more bent.
Everything seemed to go pretty well tonight. I felt mostly solid and it seemed like the bow shot pretty well, after having moved my rest farther in the last time I shot. I did not notice any real trend in wide groups, although I did get some unexpectedly left arrows. Could have been wind I suppose, I’m not sure. Looking at the target you can see that every point I dropped was left, between 8-9 o’clock. I dropped one on each of my first two ends, both at 8 o’clock just barely out, and then later on I dropped two more on one end where I had a group right at 9 o’clock: two were just out, and one was just in.
The only real thing of note tonight was that I had a very hard time aiming at the large FITA face. I was using a 6x lens and with the gold being so big, and us being so close, I found it very difficult to keep the dot centered in that mass of yellow. I shot much smoother and felt like I aimed better at the NFAA spots on the practice buts, where my dot fit more neatly inside the spots.
I actually tried to drop down to a 4x lens before we started scoring, but the lens that was marked “4” turned out to be another 6x, so that was pointless. I definitely want to try a lower power scope for FITA/900’s next time.
295 isn’t that bad, but I do feel I could get into the 298-300 range without too much trouble. The spot is very large for 50 yards, so that should be doable. Also, my x’s were a little low at 12. I would like to get that up to 15+. Basically I think I should be about the same on this face at 50 yards as I shoot indoors at 20 yards, so 299-300 with 20-25 x’s would be very good. Of course, wind will play a factor, but it was pretty still tonight.
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Start date: Jun 13, 2011 6:49 PM Target: FITA Total score: 295 12x
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