My house and archery range suffer lots of traffic lately, and this will remain the case for some weeks. This puts a severe crimp in a measured approach to archery practice. Gone are the times to focus and think and prepare, then to feel the arrow in the bow as the target is concentrated on. Gone are the meditative moments between shots.
This approach is sort of like the Parcourse video, but the object is to hit the target rather than trying to do a flip while sending your arrow to the next county. This approach uses the recurve, but I conceive that a compound would do as well, as long as the shooter is quite confident of arrow flight control.
As an aside, I was at a gun show this past weekend and got to see the latest whiz-bang compound bows. They weigh as much as a small kitten and have exit velocities of 350 fps and more. Their cams are as big as coffee saucers, but ovoid with an offset hole. They're made with the minimal amount of secret carbon fiber. Whew.
** The challenge with this method of practice is to have the target already set up, then draw and hold a bead on something else, to the right or to the left about twenty degrees. Then quickly swing the drawn bow to the target and shoot.
I found out about this when I had a large field to myself, an empty OJ jug, and my recurve and two froo froo arrows. I nocked an arrow and held it in place with my holding hand index finger, then threw the jug up in the air with my drawing hand. Then I'd quickly set my fingers, draw, aim at the flying jug, then shoot. Hella fun. I shall do it in two weeks when a certain field opens up. Wish I had a vid camera.
I shot this yesterday using this "snap shot" method. We can see there is one high carbon flyer and one low carbon flyer. I think it no coincidence that all three aluminum arrows are low. The last arrows shot, as always, are the yellow feathers, which grouped nicely.
Into a twenty minute window I can slip a snap shot session with each bow, same number of arrows per side.
CDFingers
Snap Shooting
1Crazy cat peekin' through a lace bandana
like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eyed Jack
like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eyed Jack