unmarked field

[archerger]

Jim I've never done an unmarked field b4 and wife and kids are goi9ng to Brisbane shortly and I've decided to go to the NZ Nationals. I'm 57 but giving the Open men Recurve a go which means unmarked. Could you pls advise the following.
-What are you allowed to take. I've been told you cant have two sight tapes on your sight i.e. the manf tape and on the other side your personal marks?
- I was going to take a separate sheet with the AS sight setting marks and include on the back the adjustments needed for slopes, is this ok.
-Iassume most people judge distance by using the ratio -eye to sight: dia of sight = eye to trgt:legth trg seen thro sight? I s this so or is there a better way?
- On your slope setting tables I dont understand wot you mean by sight turnover distance i.e for -10deg angle setting for 10m is -0.2 are you saying I set my sight for 9.8m??
This is all very confusing but I'll have some fun
Regards Gerry

[2Dogs]

Will you be shooting your X10's? :wink:

[archerger]

Trust you??? No although the latest is JF sent me an email I think on Monday to say he had sent the arrows last Friday soooooooo we'll see. I still cant fathom it out?? I see they've deleted the post off the site- I dont know why?

[James Park]

Gerry,
You are permitted to have just one set of sight marks plus the manufacturer's scale on the sight bar.
You are permitted to carry a set of written sight markings, a rule book, but not a set of settings for shooting up and down hills.
The "turnover" is where your sight starts to go down again as you go closer to the target (due to parallax). It will usually be about 10 to 12 Metres.
When you are shooting up or down hills, you (just about always) have to put your sight higher on the sight bar. Usually this means that your sight is effectively set to a shorter distance, and this is what Accurate Sights shows. However, if in having your sight higher on the sight bar it would be higher that the setting for the turnover distance, Accurate Sights cannot say "set your sight to a distance of X" because there are no sight markings abover the turnover setting. Instead, what I have done is to tell you how many millimetres above the turnover setting to set it, and Accurate Sights puts a minus sign in front of the number to indicate this. So, a setting of "-0.2" would mean set your sight 0.2 mm above the turnover mark.
For estimating distances, we use the amount of the target covered by the diameter of our sight ring, and this is also shown in Accurate Sights.

[Robert de Bondt]

Gerry,

If you go to the AA site and under documents go to the Judges Manual

http://archery.org.au/docs/AA_Judges_Manual.pdf

go to pages 71 to 74 and it will tell you exactly the guidelines used by the Judges as to what is allowed or not. This include, scope markings, notes, sight tapes etc.etc

[archerger]

OK think I've got it?? The judges book says its ok for someone else in the group to spot your arrows- thought this was strictly nono?
Also Jim from wot you say I can do wot I intended i.e. I have the manf strip on the sight i.e. basically a rule, on one side and your sight setting tape on the other then as well carry your full table of settings i.e. setting for each metre of distance?
For the turnover will have to look at your tables and think about it a bit.
Thanks guys Im only going for fun but its more fun if youve got some idea wot to do
Thanks again Gerry