Photo of an archery target in the near distance,. surrounded by green grass and a verdant hillside beyond the chain link fence behind it. In the foreground, in front of the target are three turkeys; the left ones with its tail feathers flared out in display.
Today's distraction training. #olympicrecurve #archery
Photo of arrows arranged in an archery tube, with the arrows evenly spaced and separated.
Photo of the components of the arrow spacer, including 3D-printed lower "plate" and upper "cup" components, which have holes for the drinking straws that act as guides for individual arrow shafts.
Photo of the assembled arrow spacer assembly.
Photo of the spacer assembly in place inside an arrow storage tube.
I designed a spacer for my arrow storage tubes to keep my arrows neatly spaced apart. (With taped-on spin vanes, letting arrows rattle around together in a tube invariably ends up with them stuck together and needing to be delicately separated to avoid damaging the vanes.)
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Photo showing the tops of 9 separate tubes containing sets of arrows, each tube labeled with my name and the type of arrow contained within.
I think I may be overdue for an arrow purge... (That's not even all of them.)
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I managed to land 12s both times on Big Foot and also the tiny 12 ring of the dragon. Super stoked to hit a 40+ yard raccoon shot through a branch! The shot reminds me a lot of shooting at the little green army men at TACO Wednesdays.
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Soggy session at the range this morning...
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Photo of me shooting my Olympic recurve bow at practice, a green archery range and hillside in front of me, the target off in the distance. The photo is taken just after the arrow was released and the arrow can be seen in midair a short distance in front of me.
Love #archery photos that show the arrow in flight. Thanks to visiting photographer Amanda Newlove (IG: @amanda.newlove) for capturing this one of me this past Saturday!
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New bow (Win&Win Meta DX riser) feels good. Bumped up draw weight a couple pounds to get the same tune on the MXT-10 limbs as on my Uukha SX+s. Between that and the heavier bow mass (3.7kg) it'll be a few sessions before my shooting catches up, but I'm liking it so far.
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Best shot of the day. More like these, please.
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Collage of 4 photos, selfies of myself taken in front of an archery target with 6 of 6 arrows in the inner gold (yellow) center of the target face.
On April 1 last year I shot my first ever all-gold (9s and 10s) end at the standard 70m Olympic distance. Almost 8 long months passed before I did it again. Then, 5 weeks passed before I did it a third time. Today I did it again, less than 3 weeks later. Progress!
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Close-up photo of an arrow sticking out of a target, with the nock shot off and the carbon fiber material splintered and the aluminum core underneath bent and torn.
Close-up photo of an arrow sticking out of a target next to some others, including the one that hit it, with the nock partly broken off, and the carbon fiber material splintered and the aluminum core underneath bent.
Shoot $60 arrows, they said. It'll be fun, they said. Shot out nocks and damaged (destroyed) two X10s this weekend. First one, doing a drill at 30m, admittedly that was asking for it. Second one at the full 70m. (Yes, I could get pin nocks, but that would add 3gn of weight!)
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Screenshot of an archery scorecard showing a total score of 304/360.
Photo of me (dressed in black sweatpants and long sleeve shirt, and a black archery chest guard) standing in front of an archery target, giving a thumbs up gesture. Six arrows can be seen in the middle of the archery target, specifically all on the second-innermost yellow 9-ring. In the background, behind a chain link fence is a green hillside, a large deciduous tree bare of leaves, a blue sky dotted with clouds.
And a short while later, with the wind starting to gust as the latest winter storm picks up again, I did it again: 304/360
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POV: shooting a 10 at 70m in the rain (okay, a slight drizzle). #olympicrecurve #archery
Close-up photo of arrows protruding out of an archery target. Two arrows are in focus, protruding out of the target's second-innermost gold 9-ring, parallel to each other and spaced about 2cm apart. The orange-coloured plastic nock on the lower arrow is broken, with the rearmost part of the nock missing, as the arrow was struck by the arrow next to it.
$1.25 Beiter nock: RIP.
$42 Easton X10 arrow shaft: OK... just.
Whew.
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Photo of an archery target featuring two arrows in the innermost gold 10-ring, three in the gold 9-ring, and an outlier sixth arrow far to the left in the blue 6-ring.
The curse of the last arrow strikes again! 😅
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Selfie taken at CTAM archery club. Behind me in the distance can be seen racks of bows, next to green-painted pillars that divide up the large underground space into separate indoor archery ranges. White arrow curtains hang from the ceiling to partition the space.
Photo of a vacant archery range, with green-painted shooting lanes numbered 1 through 4, blocked off by a metal gate, stretching into the distance. At the opposite end of the space can be seen large grey square archery target butts, one at the end of each lane and an extra one on the left. Behind the targets hangs a white arrow curtain. Large pipes run along the high concrete ceiling above.
Happened to be in town while the Club de Tir-à-l'Arc de Montréal (CTAM) is having their garage sale so I went to check it out.
I'm envious of their indoor 70m range--a necessity given the climate, I suppose.
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Screenshot of an archery score sheet showing a total score of 297/360, and with all but three shots in the gold or red, and the three shots in the black.
Archery comedy. 😂
Came so tantalizingly close to my goal of my first 300+/360 score at 70m today, only to be thwarted by not one but three wild fliers. 297/360 with three shots in the black. If any one of those had been better that would have sealed the deal. 😭
Next time!
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Photo of myself posing with a thumbs up gesture in front of an archery target with six arrows in the inner "gold" rings, with three in the center 10-ring and three in the 9. I'm dressed in my archery practice outfit, with a white T-shirt, black chest guard, white bucket hat.
Now that I've stopped habitually looking through my scope after each shot, I just tell myself "Focus on making a good shot and sooner or later I'll go down to the target and find all arrows in the gold." And today it happened (again).
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Photo taken at the archery range, with a spotting scope and Olympic-style recurve bow on its stand in the foreground, a target barely visible some 70m away in the distance under fairly foggy conditions.
Cold foggy morning at the #archery range today... Perfect weather for setting a new personal best! Shot a 282, 282, 280, 289, for a new personal record of 1133/1440. 💪
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And here's what that particular end, which was not exceptional for how I was shooting today, looked like on the target. Progress!
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Shot over 300 arrows today, working with my video delay setup to clean up my release and follow-through. Things looked typically rough at first but a couple hundred arrows later I was happy to see a much cleaner and consistent shot: youtu.be/JDI95uogEBI?...
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Photo of an archery target with five arrows in the gold 9-ring and a sixth arrow in the red 8-ring barely outside below the gold.
This close! 🤏
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Atmospheric river! A bit of a soggy and gusty session at the #archery range today.
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A photo of three Olympic recurve bows, without stabilizers attached, set down side by side on a picnic table.
Brought all my bows out and did a bit of A/B testing at the range yesterday. An embarrassment of riches: Win&Win TFT-G riser + Uukha SX+ limbs, Win&Win TFT-G riser + Win&Win MXT-10 limbs, Win&Win ATF-DX riser + Win&Win NS-G limbs. #olympicrecurve #archery
Scoring a 56/60 at 70m despite pretty terrible form... (Lol that third shot, I'm shaking my head "What even was that?") imagine how high my scores will be when my form is good? #olympicrecurve #archery
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Photo of an archery target with six Easton X10 arrows in it. The target face is a partial World Archery 10-ring 122cm face, cropped partway through the inner black 4-ring. There are three arrows in the inner X ring within the inner 10 ring, one in the 9, one in the 8, and one in the 7, for an end score of 54/60. The arrows have yellow vanes and yellow-orange nocks.
Yep, X10s fly real good. The way these things fly dead-straight to the target when I make a good shot is soooo satisfying. I'm hoping most of the effect is mental, but either way, I shot my highest single-round 70m score in over two months today, 280/360. Onwards! #OlympicRecurve #archery
Photo of an archery target with six Easton X10 arrows in it. The target face is a World Archery 10-ring 80cm face. There is one arrow in the inner 10 ring, three in the 9, and two in the 8. The arrows have yellow vanes and yellow-orange nocks.
First end shot with X10s. Don't get too excited, this was 30m on an 80cm face, but so far, so good. Next, 50m, then 60 and 70. Since these are about 30gn heavier than my VAPs I'm working my way back small steps at a time to figure out the new sight marks. #OlympicRecurve #archery
Photo of six arrows protruding out of an archery belt quiver resting on a wooden bench. The arrows have yellow "JET6" vanes and translucent yellow/orange Beiter out-nocks fitted over the ends of the arrow shafts. The "Easton X10" label in the middle of the arrow shaft is visible on most of the arrows near the quiver. On some arrows, a white single-digit arrow number label can be seen just forward of the vane; on others, the initials "VTL" are neatly written on the shaft opposite the arrow number label can be seen.
Despite a string of disappointing tournament results this month, I've decided I'm finally ready to switch over to Easton X10s. #OlympicRecurve #archery
Also, this is bae; the same #Hoyt #Aerotec I used to shoot competitively when I was younger. The only recent additions are new limbs, since my old ones are twisted, and the main stabilizer, since my former coach stole that/gave it away to newer teammates.
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I haven't fletched my own arrows in years, but.
It's been coming back to me again! Much like shooting has-
-second photo is with the brittle old K-vanes that I attached 20 years ago.
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