On Picking The Wrong Spot - An Archery Practice Report
hive-139358·@manoldonchev·
0.000 HBDOn Picking The Wrong Spot - An Archery Practice Report
That would be my archery report number 6 or 7 since I started posting those here. Quite a while has gone by since I last did any. This one is about hiking near the small town where I now live. Home turf. I know those hills. Still, I don't know where would be the best spot for the practice I have in mind. Shooting light bamboo arrows with a 22-pound recurved bow at that twenty or so yards distance measured by...strides - long ones but not too much. The hike was intended to be a walk around, too, so not too much luggage and not a proper target for the practice...I just needed something to mark where I would aim. So I filled three small bottles with the almost red, almost Martian dust and put those on the road where it looked clear enough. <br>   _One of these dudes is not like the others, one of these dudes is lost._ Yeah, I lost an arrow because of the wrong kind of terrain that I picked for the practice.  _The Ninth Shot._  _The Ninth Shot, as seen from the other side._ <br> So, I have to aim below the target but on the same vertical plane in order to hit it. Because I use no sighting system. Other than looking at the thing with my eyes. But that is hard and I need a few test shots before I can calibrate my aiming a bit. Nine shots I made that day. Nine pulls and releases of that string. Too few. But I had three arrows and going after them proved quite difficult. The thing that got me and was...grass on the sides of the road, grass with little thingies I did not want to wade through...unless needed. Also, the hard packed, almost rocky soil. It's basically rock dust. So...shooting from a distance, I have the arrows hitting the ground near the target at such an angle that they basically touch the earth on their...bellies (bamboo shafts), they bounce up a little and they continue gliding or semi-flying for up to another twenty yards or so. I saw that Seventh shot bouncing a bit to the left. I kept concentrating on my eighth and ninth shots and I finally got that bottle... _Three small bottles, standing on the road..._ But a long search was invain and I did not find my lost ammo. A costly and humbling lesson that would tell me again to make my own shield in my own yard and get the heck practicing there. Maybe next time. Peace! Manol
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