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Any archers in the house?

Target 3: 15 yards
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Dead bunny and gopher...
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Target 4: 20 yards
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Si se puede!
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Target 5: 35 yards
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It's half dead...
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Target 6: 50 yards
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Well I really don't want to be shooting coons at 50 yards anyhow...
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Target 7: 45 yards
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Spine & neck...
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Target 8: 15 yards, forgot to take the "before" but this is the "after":
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Target 9: 55 yards
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No bueno!
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Target 10: 60 yards. There's a closer target at 30 which I passed on.
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Moose knuckles for dinner. Wait...
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Target 11: 40 yards
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We got bacon!
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Target 12: 80 yards. Caught up with a couple of recurve guys here. Caught this as he just loosed. Pictures don't do this range justice, this shot is literally across a ravine.
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Half-dead bear:
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Target 13: 45 yards
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Dead and a tummy ache...
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Target 14: 65 yards. This target was funny because all the trees you see in the foreground are literally peppered with arrows.
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Half-dead caribou:
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The walking trail is kinda creepy solo. Found myself doing the pointman's walk. Take a few steps... look listen and feel. I know there's mountain lions up here so I definitely had my head on a swivel.

The worst part was the wind picked up even more right in the middle of it. Being underneath 300ft tall redwoods as they're shaking in the wind is... suspenseful. Heard lots of deadfall crashing down. The two recurve guys I ran into told me a widowmaker just missed them landing 10ft in front of them on the trail.

This is the practice range:
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As I was taking the above picture. I looked down and saw an "80" marker. Really? I guess you can take shots from behind the line when nobody's around. Looked a little bit more...

Oh what the hell, why not...
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This is what the "60" yard target looked like from the 100.
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My sight adjust maxes out at probably 90. I had never shot 100 before. So I used the "spot and lift" method. Put the pin on 60 yard target, aimed, then lifted another 2ft above the target frame. The result:
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Still scored. Called it quits at that. Looks like with my sight maxed out I still need to hold about 4ft above the bullseye.
 
Good you got it sorted! I've got two fresh packs of Blazers, haven't yet decided on my next shaft so they're just waiting. The Predator vanes that came with my CX arrows are pretty similar.

OT2 is awesome, needed it to make sight tapes but it does so much more. You really have to be anal about weighing and measuring all your components though to get it right. As soon as I plugged everything in it guessed my velocity dead on, kinda scary.

Unfortunately not sorted. Couldn't get rid of the tear without going down to 60lbs... Exactly what ot2 said (cool frikkin software for what like $30 - considering a dozen a/c/c's are like $150 :) Dammit now I have 2 dozen 390's that only make bullet holes at 60 lbs. Ordered a half dozen 340's so we'll see. I may well be shooting 60lbs for a while. Unless I pick a wall and paint a bullseye on it :)

<edit> Can we move this thread into "Non Moto" instead of KS? I mean they got a BARF Militia, why not a BARF paradox?
 
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Heh, I figured we'd get more exposure in the KS than in Non-Moto. Unless somebody complains to a mod, I'm happy to stay here.

Shot 3D again last night, didn't take any pictures but I got a new personal best at 118. Not bad after just learning how to shoot back-tension two days before. It's amazing how well you can shoot when you do it right, you feel like it's a good shot right away. But when you're struggling to get the shot off you definitely know that it's a bad shot. Got a lot of 5s when I couldn't quite get it to release right. Still, I didn't miss a single target last night so that's a win AFAIC.

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Anybody want to buy my Carter Easy 1? Used it for maybe a dozen shots before figuring out it doesn't work for me. $120 to your door.

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That a release or some medieval sex toy :) You going back tension only? I toyed around with one a couple years ago, but was actively hunting and figured it wasn't right. You intend to hunt with BT?

al..
 
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That a release or some medieval sex toy :) You going back tension only? I toyed around with one a couple years ago, but was actively hunting and figured it wasn't right. You intend to hunt with BT?

al..



Probably. I need a lot more practice with back tension to be comfy hunting with it but I got time. Figured if I could get some accurate shots off using BT during a 3D match with the pressure of a dozen shooters watching me, two days after learning the technique, I should do OK if I can keep the buck fever in control.

I'm still using my Carter Chocolate Lite, just using it BT-style instead of trigger-punching. It's working so far, so I'm not in a hurry to switch to a hinge release yet. I actually love the Easy 1's trigger mechanism, much more crisper than my Chocolate Lite. I'm only selling it because the finger grooves aren't working for me, it's a little too large for my hand.
 
Gadget's, love them!

So with father's day coming up I gave myself a gift. Ok, I don't have kids but heck I made a donation to a fertility clinic years ago, that's gotta count for something.
New sight and rest on the crx. AAE pro-drop rest and a Trijicon accupin sight :)

The rest is cool! it uses the limb, not the bus cable to set the launcher.

I have an Acog on my goto ar15, and another trijicon on my .308 hunting rifle, so I thought "why not?" Like the Zech 9:14 reference, pretty apt.

Heading up to stevens creek tomorrow morning to get it all dialled in.

Also got a dozen a/c/c's in 340. Need to cut and fletch them :( Maybe I need to try those hippy things Scorpio is using.
 

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^^ good choice with the rest. I have the same one. :thumbup Just make sure that the set screws are tight.

Isn't it funny when a BARF thread gets you to start spending money again? :teeth
 
Damn that Trijicon sight is the boss!

It's gonna be like 100 in San Jose tomorrow so we're headed up to Mt. Madonna to get away from the heat.
 
Damn that Trijicon sight is the boss!

It's gonna be like 100 in San Jose tomorrow so we're headed up to Mt. Madonna to get away from the heat.

Hope Mt Madonna was cool. Just got back from Steven's Creek, wasn't too bad but it was still like 95 degrees. Chickened out of the walk around course though :)
 
Hope Mt Madonna was cool. Just got back from Steven's Creek, wasn't too bad but it was still like 95 degrees. Chickened out of the walk around course though :)



Gilroy was 103ºF and MMB wasn't any better, mid-90s. Small practice range out in the open, and 40-target field course. It's probably a pretty nice range but it was too damn hot to enjoy it today. We were all hot and sweaty just from the practice range and none of us were in the mood to go uphill and deep inside the field course. Where it was open it was hot, get inside the trees and you trade away some heat for a lot more bugs. BMB wasn't any better.

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Practice Range and Target # 1 to the left:
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Target #27
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1st time shooter. You think the arrow might be a tad long? :laughing
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arnoha
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No wonder they have a bug shoot, the bugs are big enough to take an arrow, or two...

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Another upcoming event, I'm out of town for this one though:
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Walked the Mt Madonna course a couple of years ago. It was in winter and I had the place to myself. It was *quiet*. I kept freaking myself out thinking a lion was creeping up on me. Nice course, some loooong shots as I remember (like 90 yards?)
 
Walked the Mt Madonna course a couple of years ago. It was in winter and I had the place to myself. It was *quiet*. I kept freaking myself out thinking a lion was creeping up on me. Nice course, some loooong shots as I remember (like 90 yards?)



Yea I get that feeling at Kings Mountain all the time. Made even worse because I do know for a fact that there are mountain lions on that ridge. Stanford has been keeping track of the wildlife up at Jasper Ridge:

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Oh yea, I did some bare shaft tuning yesterday:

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Fired two fletched arrows at 20 yards (hitting low because I had my sights set at 15 :rolleyes) and then followed it up with a bare shaft. I almost robin-hooded one of my fletched arrows, it glanced off the nock that's why it's all skewed like that. That is one well-setup bow, direct from the factory floor.
 
So, it turns out that I do, in fact, need to learn how to work on and tune my bow myself. I was hoping that I could just tune it once per season and be good. I was wrong. I guess that shooting a hundred or so arrows a day for a few weeks is considered 'shooting a lot.' the tune on my bow was so off by the time one of the guys at the shop checked it out. He told me that it's not a big deal if you keep up with it, but all I knew how to do was shoot the damn thing. So, it looks like I'm gonna be bringing some beer to dmaxAl after all when I get back home. :teeth
 
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