Friday 10th June 2011

@ St Pauls

Windy, very cold

10x 6 arrow ends @ 90m, 122cm unscored

2x 6 arrow ends @ 20m, aiming with 90m setting, 122cm shot trainer

1x 6 arrow end @ 20m, 122cm scored

Total 78

After yesterdays shot trainer session with my 90m setting, I wanted to see how it went with some 90m shooting. Unfortunately the weather was pretty bad today, so my results were a bit hard to gauge how well I was truly shooting.

I was shooting very tight groups when the wind wasn't kicking the crap out of me, even with the blades.  The field was producing conflicting wind patterns due to the trees, as the flag at the target indicated a right-left and towards me wind, while on the shooting line, it was a left right wind, which might have been a vortex type of swirl.  

In any case, today was very comfortable in getting a good 4-5 ends away at 90m without feeling like I wasn't in control of the shot.  When I moved to 20m (to accommodate a beginner who arrived to shoot), I went back to the shot trainer.  He asked to see how well I could shoot at 20m, and as it began to rain, I finished off with an end of 6 at 20m, X X X X 10 10, a little to the right of the X ring.  Pretty okay with that.  Wrapped up due to the rain, I really don't want to get sick before I head over to the US.