2008 Back yard season.

[stilllearning]

The back yard season has been going now for a while but I thought it was time to start posting what we are up to on Thursday nights.
shooting has been going well and we usually have 3 or 4 of us. I hope to get more as the season gets closer but it is hard to get everyone out every Thursday night.
I have been messing around changing my string out and the latest change was going from the WB to the Drop away and I think I am going to like it.
I went out tonight to try shooting out to 40 yards as this was the first attempt since all the changes. I was very pleased but found most of my shots were to the right. I may have to look at moving the rest just a bit but I don't think I will do it just yet until I get more shooting in at that distance. Not great groups but I think I may be trying to look before I should.

I will try and get some pics tomorrow night for you.

[BT]

Looking forward to hearing good news this summer.....with no last minute emergency's

[stilllearning]

The report tonight was that we had some fun as well as some practice. I did not shoot great and started to over analyze until Eastern came to me and said just shoot and enjoy yourself.
A while back HYH had sent some bows up to me and in the package were two small Brave Bows for kids. I found a home for one if you remember to a little girl that wanted to shoot with her brother and Dad but didn't have a bow. She grinned all night when we gave it to her.
Well the other night a son of one of our shooters came to the church gym to shoot and really took an interest in it. He said that some day he would have to get a bow. Something clicked in my head and I thought of the second Brave Bow that they said to give out. I mentioned it to Eastern and he thought he had a rest that would work on it so he brought it to my place tonight. I let them start to shoot while I got the rest on and I had brought one of the green re-curves home for the young fellow who came with his Dad to the backyard shoot. I had mentioned to his Dad about my idea and he loved it.
I got the bow ready and then went and shot a few and took some pictures of the unsuspecting little fellow who was just excited to be with his Dad and the guys shooting bows as you can see here.




I then went and got the bow and brought it out and began to explain that the bow came from Helping Young Hunters and that they wanted me to find a young person to give it to as there own bow. His eyes opened wide with anticipation of what I was going to do.





I told him the bow was his and the next few pics show how excited he was and he did shoot very well until he got so tired he could not pull it back anymore.

Pics




This is at 22 yard range. He loved that.



We continued to shoot and made poor Bambi look more like a porcupine than a deer.



Eastern was trying to see were everyone was hitting.




Eastern even brought his long bow for a outing and man he did well for only getting arrows to shoot properly from it on Monday night. He even got leaned right into it.



Notice the bows and set in there smallest or shortest on the far right and the longest bow on the left. By accident but it was cool.



We set the range up tonight to reach out to 40 yards and I hope to repair a 3d target on Sunday so we can have different distance shots to try. I will try and do a step by step on the repair.

I did notice something tonight on my bow that I am curious about though. Lets see if I can explain this one for you.
I noticed the Plastic slide on the cable bar has some slack in it or should I say has a gap between it and the bar. The hole in the slide that goes over the bar is right up against the bar on the right of the bow and on the left side of the slide there is a gap of at least a 1/16". We looked at hopesman's bow and his did not have this slack. We looked at the father of the young-fellows bow, which he also has a Martin and his seemed to have the same open area at his bar as well. I looked again from the back to the front of the bow and there is a definite gap as if the hole in the slide has become oblong or reamed out.
The question is this, should that slide have that kind of slack or do both the other Martin owner and I need new Plastic slides to put on the bar?

Now did any of that make sense?

[huntbunny6]

All right !!!!

you are doing such a great job up there

Thank you for showing us.

[royden]

good pics ... looks like ya'll had fun ... and you seem to be always setting up another new archer

the gap is fairly normal and just fine ... the pressure of the cables is pulling the slide against the gaurd leaving a gap. No gap can be bad - no clearance = no slide if debris gets in there.

[fred70]

been real busy with our move but that is just totally awesome stilllearnin! thanks for posting! Great to see the smile on their faces!!!!Awesome pics!!!

[BT]

Good Pics!!

That range is looking better

[stilllearning]

Why thank you BT.

We had a good time tonight shooting but we only had three of us. Thats OK as Long as I get to shoot. LOL

all of us seemed to be doing well tonight and got to fling a lot of arrows. I even played with the recurve and at ten yards was doing ............... well I hit the bag. I did try to hit Bambi at 22 yards and managed to put the arrow on target. Again if you call in the rump on target or in the spine.................. But at least I did not put it in the nose of the deer like the unnamed shooter right Eastern? All in all another night of fun outdoors even with the wind. But then again the wind kept the bugs away. We are practicing hard to get ready for the fall.

[easternhunter]

You bugger....

[stilllearning]

;D ;D ;D
I now have to admitt that the only reason that I didn't have one in the head of the deer was it happend to be 2 inches lower and when in between the back of the deer and the bottom of the chin.