Mixed Emotions!

[Eberbachl]

I'm happy! ...and and I'm not!

hehe, I went down to the club tonight for a quiet shoot in the indoor.

Well, I was shooting pretty well up until the first arrow of the third last end, it was then that nerves were starting to get the better of me. Now I know that this is only a silly practice round, but you see my best score before tonight on IFAA indoor in the last two weeks with sights has been 287. (that's 'cause whenever I shoot a 4, I stop scoring :)). But tonight was different, the bow at last is pretty good, and I was shooting well. All x's and fives until arrow number 46!

I was getting pretty nervous at this stage to say the least (the first 300 is going to be the hardest :D), and I drew the bow, aimed, and just as the pin went over the x I flinched. Now, of course if I had let down and started the shot again chances are I could have got the 300, but me? NO! I just had to try and recover that shot and of course shot a @#$%^& 4!

What did I end up with? :(299 33x!!!:(

Oh well, I guess I'm 12 points closer to 300 than I was yesterday:D

...I think if I look really hard I just might be able to see a lesson here :confused

[Marcus]

Ah that's goota suck. Nothing worse than missing due to being lazy! :)
So what did you do to throw you up 12 points? Better tuning? Practise?
The lesson is that you can't shoot 4's if you want to shoot a 300. :D

Well done though, the first 300 is the hardest, but you'll get there very very soon. After that you will be shooting for a 40x, then a 50x. That's the trick, forget about 300, just shoot for a 40x score, chances are you'll get a 400 be default.

Keep it up, DVA shooters kick arse!

[Eberbachl]

mmmm, you're right!

The twelve point gain was undoubtedly due to better tuning and practise practise practise!

I think I've shot about a thousand arrows this week:)

[Marcus]

1000 arrows would be nice. Maybe I should become a teacher. :)

I wasted my whole weekend. Was not happy with the grouping of this shoot over rest at all. (70m would put 4 touching one end and the next all over the place) so I messed around all afternoon and got nowhere.
It's an old rest so I'll have to buy a new one, problem is the Goldern Key doesn't impress me for the money and that's all anyone sells.
Will look at the PSE rests I think.

[Eberbachl]

Ha Ha :) yes you should become a teacher, more time for the better things in life, ie archery, flyfishing etc:D:D I was pretty busy today, so only got to spend about 2 hours in the indoor :eek

...saw your post on the new rest...hope it ends up working OK!

[Marcus]

Yeah thanks me too. It's getting me down that I'm wasting valuable shooting time playing with equipment. Erika shot a PB on a Ladies FITA the other day and all I could do was shoot powdered arrows. :(
Yeah this work thing seriously puts a damper on life in general.