70 Meter Practice

70 meters, 122 cm target face, 42 lb walnut longbow, Carbon Express Predator 700 arrows. I'm the large arrows, by the way. The little arrows belong to a friend of mine who's practicing for the Gator Cup. I really want to shoot it but unfortunately *someone* pre-empted that weekend from me. When will certain people get it that I actually want to shoot something besides short, trashy 3D shots?

By-Products

Looks like things are starting to stabilize on the little by-product of the stuff I do. Tentatively this by-product or side-reaction is under the code-name of "The Archer and the Swordsman" but the title is bound to change as things get shifted and jiggled around.

Let's just say as of now, I'm standing alongside an extremely confused archer who's trying to figure out if there's any truth to some semi-coherent ramblings from one of my all-time favorite D&D characters and a mysterious, gigantic black wolf that constantly haunts her dreams...

In the Name of Self-Amusement

Sometimes, I just gotta shoot something different. I couldn't believe that I actually took 2nd place in the women's compound record high score at the Newberry Indoor league on Thursday.

Basically I had wiped out my upper body on Thursday and knew I wasn't going to be holding back 34-35 lbs at full draw long enough to make a good shot. But I could still pull back a good amount of weight, so I opted for the compound, which has let-off... allowing me to hold back about 10 lbs instead of 34-35. Next thing I knew after a little fidgeting with the sight, I'm generally hitting the gold aside from two fumble shots where the release went off before I was ready. And I was just behind the #1 record high score and the guy running the shoot. I think I'd rather shoot my longbow or recurve though... but the compound certainly caused a lot of laughter and gasps of amazement!

Long Hammock delight! Sometimes the labels just crack me up too much to not photograph...

Robert shot a Robin Hood on one of the targets and lookin' proud!

I still feel extremely puny in the arms and not particularly powerful. Then again, I generally feel like I don't carry nearly enough muscle mass and way too much adipose tissue!

Nearly Forgot

28/30 on this end! I've yet to get a 30/30 but I don't think it'll be *too* far off! This was with the Chek-Mate Hunter I recurve, by the way. Any of my 40-something lb bows have an existent chance of pulling this off but the Hunter I and the walnut longbow seem to have higher probabilities than the Crusader.

FYI -- "Recurve" division at Newberry includes Olympic recurve (with sights), other recurves with sights, traditional recurves, and longbows. We may start a Barebow division but I don't think I'm really helping out my fellow barebow folks by staying just a shot ahead of an Olympic recurve! We'll see what happens though once she gets into full practice.

Belated TBoF Pictures

Belated awards for the women's longbow division from the Charity shoot back in January.

Where am I?

Get the red shirt!!

Robert in men's open championship round.

I wanna be like the fellow in the green shirt and white pants if I reach his age! Shot with him at the FITA field back in November and he gave me a good challenge as far as physical fitness went once temperatures rose above about 55 degrees!

Belated Five Points of Life 5k Pictures

TBoF Spring 2011

As always, click on the title for the full suite of pictures. I took 3rd in the women's longbow division after shooting as best as I could given that my training is now very heavily biased towards long-distance precision shoots where all my shots are clear and I have plenty of room to set up my shots.

Indoor Action

Crunch went the nock! Shot a surprisingly good FITA 300 round (18 meters) given that I've been up since 0400 hrs and do feel a bit sore from this morning's training (courtesy of my favorite trainer at the gym). I honestly didn't think I'd even break 180 tonight after the first few ends but I finished with a 204/300, so that was pretty good for shooting wood arrows. And yes, that's a very easy repair!

I was extremely surprised to get these today given what shape I was in while I was shooting that round back in January. Boogers everywhere and more! I think just finishing that shoot was extremely impressive on my part but yeah, this was an added bonus. I guess either nobody challenged me (most likely) or someone did and had a rough day too, maybe also waging the war on boogers!