The Think Tank

I actually felt that I shot pretty well this weekend. This was the first shoot since putting on the Bowmar axels and bushings, and it was only Friday night before I got it shooting anything like decent. The only really troubling spot was that my shoulder got really sore and tried by the end of Saturday and started out that way on Sunday. Probably because of that I had a hard time aiming all weekend and used up an awful lot of the dot. I think because of the trouble aiming/with my shoulder I also had trouble pulling and wound up collapsing from time to time, or doing that thing where I sort of pluck my release hand and miss right.

I finished down 11 for an 1309, tied for fourth with Mark Eaves. Sean Elza came in 3rd with 1312 and John Huevel and Ben English tied with 1313. Ben won the shoot off.

I had a few notable flubs: I held too long and shook a lot on a 24 yarder on Saturday and missed it by a bunch. My last target on Saturday I held too long again and crept so bad that I pretty much flinched and fired. I damn near missed the kill ring at 32 yards. It was bad.

Today I dropped some easy ones around 40 yards in the same way, although it did more of that plucking thing than anything else. I also missed my team shoot off arrow at 67 yards out right which was probably the same deal.

All in all I’m pretty satisfied. I wanted to be at or above 1310, but oh well. I hit a lot of hard shots and flubbed a few, but I hung with the big boys and feel pretty good about the whole thing. This score would have averaged out to a 1527 on a 70 target course, which I think would be a postal best.

I worked on the tiller today, bringing the bottom limb in about 1.5 turns. When it ended the bottom limb was in 1/4 cm compared to the upper limb. Chris Sent from my iPad