Friday 25th March 2011

@ St Pauls

Warm and Sunny, turning slightly overcast, slight wind but not much to be bothered by.

15x 6 arrow ends @ 10-70m walkback, 80cm face unscored.  10m, 15m, 30m, 40m, 50m, 60m, 70m.

Total 80 arrows.

Shooting with the new rig was good, the grip position felt pretty solid now, though still working on alignment into the correct plane of force.  Getting some help, I was wavering between about an inch out (too short an alignment, elbow to the right of in-line) to being in line, so need to work on consistency.  Release also.  The bow was rattling for the duration and I could not figure the source until at the end of the day when I discovered that the hex bolt for the grip was working itself out.  Sadly for some reason, none of the hex keys that came with the riser actually fit the screw and I had to half-fit a metric key from my Shibuya sight kit to get it to work.  I hope that with the screw tightened, the rattle will go away.  

With shooting a low brace height, the shot response does have a bit of a 'kick' to it.  I don't know how much value there will be to bring the brace height up, though quiet as it is, it might get more quiet.  I will have to experiment with that in the coming period of time but it will play around with my nocking point height and sight settings too.  At the moment, I feel it is pretty quiet but it might get even more quiet....