With reaching MB unlikely this season and with next season in mind, today was a chance to shoot a FITA at the club and see where I am - plus work on a few areas I have not been happy with - namely my loose and follow through.
An 8.00am start, with little wind, was on the cards. So, with the target up at 90m, off I went. The first thing I noticed was that, perhaps, a change of limb is in order. Currently I shoot the SF Elite Carbon Foam limbs which are 38lbs @ 28. Given my draw length, that puts 41lbs on my fingers. These are paired with Easton Carbon One arrows. Whilst a decent pair of limbs (stable and smooth), they lack the speed that I would like. This results in the arrows "pondering" their way down to the 90m mark....and with any wind around I feel like I would achieve more with a shotgun!!!
Anyway, back to the shooting - 90m felt ok and I finished with a split of 240 for the 3 doz (which broke down to doz scores of 79, 72 & 89). It all felt nice, but there was the odd arrow out in black and white....not good enough!
On to 70m and the wind picking up a little. But at least I can get my sight out to full extension. My first doz came in at 104, so I was happy....but into the next 2 doz, I noticed that my loose and follow through were not what they should be. I know that at times I rotate the drawing hand at the point of loose, but doz scores of 93 & 89 made me realise that I do this more often than not......still, finished the 3 doz with a split of 286....not the magic 300 I wanted.
50m and I forgot how small the face suddenly seems to be.....and doz scores of 99, 90 & 96 are.....ok....but not much more! I noticed that I snatched the odd loose, which didn't help. Again work is required! Split was 285.
I felt happiest at 30m and a split of 337 was keeping me happy (doz's of 112, 113 & 112). I dropped 10 points through bad shots.....you know the one...
"Should I come down or not"....and then loose and think "bugger, I should have come down and re-set".
So a final score of 1148...which, although a club record, was 52 points short of where I wanted to be.
Work to be done on my loose and follow through........any advice and training ideas welcome!!!
Next week is the club handicap champs (Westerns for all), which I have organised, so not looking to shoot seriously.
