Wednesday 21st October 2009

After some discussion with some people I respect on their knowledge and opinion, I have decided to switch over to using an open ring sighting method.  I had tried this a long time ago on compound with a little bit of success, and previously also on recurve without much success at all.  Now that the rest of my shooting skills have come up some, it isn't unreasonable to return to this method to try to eliminate other form issues, which at the moment is over-aiming.

So with this in mind, I removed the aperture disc, with the fibre optic pin in it, and the o-ring seal that held the disc in place.  My titan recurve scope is now an open ring, and I must say, on a 6-10 ring spot of an indoor face, at 18m, it is huge.  I see an incredible amount of gap space of the white, and the actual target butt.  Not to be distracted though, the key aspect is to just focus on looking at where you want to shoot, the gold, the middle of the gold.  Thus, that was how I aimed for the round.

@ Sefton, hot, slight gusts, bright on the face, shaded slightly on the target.

1x 6 arrow end warm up

10x 3 arrow ends scored Indoor round.

Total 36.

I scored a 265, only one point down from yesterdays shooting.  Amazingly so, and while it felt strange initially, the arrows didn't really do anything too unexpected at all.  In terms of the breakdown of ends it went as such:

25 27 27 28 23 23 26 28 29 29.

For the breakdown, while there were no 30's, the 22's became 23's.  The rest were fairly similar in consistency.  Some of the ends were very easy to shoot and relaxed, but once I stopped shooting, I could feel my subscapularis muscle aching slightly, indicating I was putting more into using it, which I think is a positive sign that I am aiming less.  In addition to this, my sight mark went up 1 full dial, as the arrows were going into the 8 ring high.

It is too early really to say off one session, so I shall continue with the open ring and see where it gets me.

I also found, that with the bow, since I took off a lot of excess weight yesterday, the wind pushing it is much more noticeable, while in a real indoor there would be no wind, so I am undecided in regards to re-attaching the weight or not.