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This thread is awesome. I don't hunt anymore so when it's cold I shoot in the living room. It's only 17 or 18 yards from my front door to the target but I don't care. Still fun>>>

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First shot is usually good for me. Last shots are always tiring. By the end of each season I'm ready for competition. But you know, I lived on an island. I made a bow out of a U bush limb when I was in Boy Scouts. Killed a bicycle tire with that. Only problem was it was mine.

These days, there's nothing like a stealth kill and a clean track...in my living room.
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Sonofagun wrote:This thread is awesome. I don't hunt anymore so when it's cold I shoot in the living room. It's only 17 or 18 yards from my front door to the target but I don't care. Still fun>>>

First shot is usually good for me. Last shots are always tiring. By the end of each season I'm ready for competition. But you know, I lived on an island. I made a bow out of a U bush limb when I was in Boy Scouts. Killed a bicycle tire with that. Only problem was it was mine.

These days, there's nothing like a stealth kill and a clean track...in my living room.
Thanks for dropping by Sonofagun. Nice pictures, excellent tight group shooting.
You are defiantly in the grove.

Did you stuff and hang that bicycle tire?

Pointfocus,
I remarked, I was trying to keep relaxed, the Zen Master replied: 'That's just the trouble, you make an effort to think about it. Concentrate on your breathing, as if you had nothing else to do. (Quote modified to fit.)
Zen in the Art of Archery.

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I love it! I must say, were I to shoot inside, my wife would have kittens!

She caught me once: about ten or more years ago I'd developed the habit of shooting at longer ranges by shooting from my living room, through the dining room, through open swinging door to the kitchen, through the kitchen, through the laundry porch, out the back door, over the deck, then to the back fence for about forty yards, about 120 feet. I would do this when my wife took nice, long baths. But once she got out early and unexpectedly, catching me at full draw, her in a towel. What a scene. That was my last day shooting from the living room. Now I get to shoot from the back door, but only in inclement weather.

I think it's excellent to have such a nice place to shoot as your living room.

CDFingers
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CDFingers wrote:I love it! I must say, were I to shoot inside, my wife would have kittens!

She caught me once: about ten or more years ago I'd developed the habit of shooting at longer ranges by shooting from my living room, through the dining room, through open swinging door to the kitchen, through the kitchen, through the laundry porch, out the back door, over the deck, then to the back fence for about forty yards, about 120 feet. I would do this when my wife took nice, long baths. But once she got out early and unexpectedly, catching me at full draw, her in a towel. What a scene. That was my last day shooting from the living room. Now I get to shoot from the back door, but only in inclement weather.

I think it's excellent to have such a nice place to shoot as your living room.

CDFingers
Perfect setting for a Viagra commercial! :sorry:

Yeah my wife tries to make me go to the basement, but then I can't watch ID channel. My dog gets a little aggressive when I pick up anything that hurls a projectile. Barks and growls...You guys have this problem?
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Keep Bow Tight ~Sitting Bull
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Most of my arrows have vanes, but in the pics you can see those big yellow feathered ones. They hiss when they fly, and my cats, especially the big male Mr. Hope, will sit on the other side of the screen door and make the strangest of sounds. I take it to be frustration that they can't get that bird or something. It seems they know when I'm about to let it fly, as they're quiet until I've been at full draw for a second or two. Maybe they just like to watch. Now there's a disturbing thought.

CDFingers
Crazy cat peekin' through a lace bandana
like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eyed Jack

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Ha, I'm shooting a varray of arrows of different weights, lengths, fletching too. Some don't even have half the fletching left. I bent one the other night when I missed the target all together and hit the wall and stud. That one had a rocky mountain broadhead on it, so there's no hole. I just unscrewed the arrow and left the broadhead in the wall. He he, what hole? Besides, ever try to pull an arrow out of a tree? Not gonna happen...

Oh yeah, no, didn't mount the tire. I should have though. The bike was a yellow and black "forgot what kind" maybe huffy...banana seat chopper bikes with one of those fat flat all black racing slick kind of tire. Looked like a friggin Mickey Thompson.
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It was feeling really good today, so I shot double, total of 54 arrows between both sides. I will lay off till Sunday and see what happens.

At the end of the first quiver with the recurve, I was shooting well, so I just go got the arrows and went through again. Accuracy was good but fun was higher. Then I had to shoot the same number with the compound from the other side. It was fun. I sweat through my t shirt.

CDFingers
Crazy cat peekin' through a lace bandana
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I shot this morning with my the amount mentioned in the experiment on this thread, having adding five arrows on each side for a while in an effort to increase my strength and endurance. On Thursday I shot over 50 arrows in under an hour to see if I'd gained any strength. I shot this morning, the normal +5 amount, and I felt no ill effects from Thursday. I even hit the rifle range yesterday and shot about 75 rounds of Mosin surplus. Shooting arrows this morning was just fine. It appears I have strengthened my 61 year old body, or I'm drinking enough beer that I can't feel anything--which would wreck my aim, so: unlikely. ;-)

I learned something today, after studying the Kyudo forms and the J-Stroke archery video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LceBNHj1 ... re=g-all-c

...and the concept of flow and habit: when one establishes a habit with respect to practicing a sport, and that habit is so religiously enforced that competition seems just like another practice session, then the sport-o enjoys the phenomenon of "flow," when the practitioner does not "think" of the next move; it just seems to happen in the flow.

Here's what I learned, though it takes me out of the flow to think about it--it has to do with how "follow through" effects impact, something I noticed sort of after the fact of a shot that felt just exactly perfect, and that is, "after release, guide the arrow with both hands."

CDFingers
Crazy cat peekin' through a lace bandana
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Good session right at sunset with strange light. In the video link I posted on Sunday, there is discussion of pinching the shoulder blades together. Today I worked on that, then guiding the arrow in with both hands after release. I'll shoot twice as many arrows on Sunday, as last week. I want to be able to shoot maybe 100 arrows in a day in case I go to a tournament.

CDFingers
Crazy cat peekin' through a lace bandana
like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eyed Jack

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I can hardly wait for Thursday to shoot again with my strengthened awareness of the shoulder blade pinch. Such a move aids my release because it brings my release elbow more in line with the travel path of the arrow. When I couple that with the notion of guiding the arrow to the target after release with both hands, I have gotten very juicy results. The two hands thing is part of my follow-through awareness. I'd shoot today, but my time is already spent.

CDFingers
Crazy cat peekin' through a lace bandana
like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eyed Jack

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I can't post to this thread anymore because today was the last shoot of the winter. Eleven arrows. Spring starts on Thursday, when I will shoot again.

I can say I now shoot about 40 arrows per session, so I've increased my quantity per shoot. Here's today's hapless bottle, sort of wearing out:

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Post your last shoot, and say if you've noticed any change due to this training thread.

CDFingers
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