Every Now and Then...

... I seem to know what I'm doing! This was 18 meters with the walnut longbow on the FITA 3-spot indoor target. I usually shoot the 40 cm target but I felt like challenging myself with just the 5 inner rings. This was earlier this week but the date thing on my camera decided to fart at me for whatever reason.

Heart-Shattered Doe

I took her from about 70 yards while we were preparing to exit. R had seen a doe cross the road and stopped the truck. A second doe ran out and was too fast for me to take a shot at. I then set the rifle down on the car door to use it as a rest and while I was waiting, a third doe popped up. I didn't fully settle into my shot but I took the shot anyway. She took a few steps forward then did a 180 turn so R and I weren't so sure that I actually hit her until we drove up to the spot. Sure enough, lots of blood-spatters so we knew I got her. Twenty yards and plenty of blood and a coughed-up chunk of lung later, we found her.



Also on a random side-note, here's how NOT to do combat archery...

FITA Field 2010

As always, click the title for the rest of the pictures.

Overall I shot very well given the following conditions:
1) It was cold. Eiskalt. Ok so not that cold for me but I think my bow had a few things to say. Can you say... calibration drift?
2) Indigestion from something in the sandwiches for lunch on day 1.

It was awesome shooting with friends, both new and old, and seeing that there were a total of 6 barebow archers... one of whom was a true longbow archer with wooden arrows and another was a string-walker (but he wants to switch over to longbow) and is still a fun guy to hang out with. I don't think I've ever seen an FAA shoot with that strong of a barebow presence with more than half of us under 60 years old!