First off I gotta give a shout out to the Old Hickory Archery Club. Those guys done a great job setting this shoot up. It was probably one of the best ran shoots that I have been to. They were doing a great job of busting up the "buddy groups" and when other shooters weren't available to put groups with, they were putting their own staff in the groups as score keepers. This is a good thing cause it takes away a lot of the drama associated with some of these shoots. I finally got to put some faces to names from here on the site...got to meet and shoot with Matt from Energywave strings, got to meet TnDeerGuy and DixieCrafter. I didn't get to talk to either of them long but I got to shake hands and talk a few anyway.
Now for my adventure.
In short...I sucked. Bad. If you don't like reading a lot...that's all you will be interested in seeing.
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In long...I *THINK* I finally figured out what caused it after racking my brain all evening, night, and most of the morning.
In a nutshell...I was the nut and shot myself in the foot. I was trying to prepare for shooting in the rain Saturday and I took my lens and clarifier out to see what/where my POI was WITHOUT them. It never crossed my mind til just a little while ago that this is probably what caused my woes. I put my lens and clarifier back in when I got to the shoot site and saw that it probably wasn't going to rain. I shot a couple arrows on the practice bales and noted I was hitting low/right but I was afraid to adjust ANYTHING on this bow because of how well I had been shooting it. This same low/right hitting plagued me on the course until I finally decided to do some adjusting. I ended up putting 6 total clicks of windage to the right to get me back into the 12s. On my sight, 1 click = 1/4 inch movement at 20 yards. I also ended up having to add 1.5 yards to my tape to hit center. If I went by my marks on my tape, I would hit low. I ended up shooting 11 total twelves out of 30 targets but I had so many 8s from low/right hits that it cancelled them out. There were some of them that I was out of the 12 by just a score cards thickness. I heard the phrase "that's as close as you can get to being in...and still be out" several times on the course. This is one I let slip through my fingers. If I would have just left everything alone, I could have probably shot 26-30 up on the course if I would have just hit the 12s that I was barely out of. I *think* either my lens or clarifier was off just enough that it changed my POI. We're not talking like 10 inches difference...but just enough to be out of the 12. It was about 2 inches to the right...which if you're holding on the 12 ring (about the size of a quarter) and miss by just a little, it had just as well be 12 inches. Makes me queasy at the stomach thinking about what could/should have been.
But there's one thing for sure...this was a HUGE lesson to learn from. On to next weekend now...the championship for the King of String series.
Now for my adventure.
In short...I sucked. Bad. If you don't like reading a lot...that's all you will be interested in seeing.
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In long...I *THINK* I finally figured out what caused it after racking my brain all evening, night, and most of the morning.
In a nutshell...I was the nut and shot myself in the foot. I was trying to prepare for shooting in the rain Saturday and I took my lens and clarifier out to see what/where my POI was WITHOUT them. It never crossed my mind til just a little while ago that this is probably what caused my woes. I put my lens and clarifier back in when I got to the shoot site and saw that it probably wasn't going to rain. I shot a couple arrows on the practice bales and noted I was hitting low/right but I was afraid to adjust ANYTHING on this bow because of how well I had been shooting it. This same low/right hitting plagued me on the course until I finally decided to do some adjusting. I ended up putting 6 total clicks of windage to the right to get me back into the 12s. On my sight, 1 click = 1/4 inch movement at 20 yards. I also ended up having to add 1.5 yards to my tape to hit center. If I went by my marks on my tape, I would hit low. I ended up shooting 11 total twelves out of 30 targets but I had so many 8s from low/right hits that it cancelled them out. There were some of them that I was out of the 12 by just a score cards thickness. I heard the phrase "that's as close as you can get to being in...and still be out" several times on the course. This is one I let slip through my fingers. If I would have just left everything alone, I could have probably shot 26-30 up on the course if I would have just hit the 12s that I was barely out of. I *think* either my lens or clarifier was off just enough that it changed my POI. We're not talking like 10 inches difference...but just enough to be out of the 12. It was about 2 inches to the right...which if you're holding on the 12 ring (about the size of a quarter) and miss by just a little, it had just as well be 12 inches. Makes me queasy at the stomach thinking about what could/should have been.
But there's one thing for sure...this was a HUGE lesson to learn from. On to next weekend now...the championship for the King of String series.
