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Steve Allely, Paul Comstock, Jim Hamm, Jay Massey, Tim Baker, Ron Hardcastle, John Strunk: Die Bibel des Traditionellen Bogenbaus (Hardcover, German language, 2005, Verlag Angelika Hörnig) No rating

Langerwartete deutsche Übersetzung des amerikanischen Standardwerkes zum Thema traditioneller Bogenbau. Inhalt: Holzauswahl, Sehnenbelag, Bogen aus …

Das ist wirklich ein Fachbuch. Ein Fachbuch, das ich garantiert noch drölfzig mal in die Hand nehmen muss und werde.

Vieles davon ist mir als Holzwurm schob vorher klar gewesen. Das aber in Verbindung zum Bogenbauer, macht ganz andere Sachen im Kopf.

#Archery #Bogenschießen #DIY #Bookwyrm

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Steve Allely, Paul Comstock, Jim Hamm, Jay Massey, Tim Baker, Ron Hardcastle, John Strunk: Die Bibel des Traditionellen Bogenbaus (Hardcover, German language, 2005, Verlag Angelika Hörnig) No rating

Langerwartete deutsche Übersetzung des amerikanischen Standardwerkes zum Thema traditioneller Bogenbau. Inhalt: Holzauswahl, Sehnenbelag, Bogen aus …

Aufgrund meines Hobbys und meinem fehlenden Wissen darüber, muss man sich auch mal mit Fachbücher befassen. Deswegen habe ich mir dieses hier zugelegt und angefangen, mich da einzuarbeiten.

#Archery #Bogenschießen #Bogenbau

It was just me and some well behaved geese shooting the sunrise at the archery range yesterday morning.

I didn't shoot a round or do any scoring, just shooting at 50 metres and 30 metres in case I needed to do any further bow tuning.

I'm still not sure whether to gap-shoot at 50 metres or string-walk, so there's a lot more work to be done at that distance.

At 30 metres I did some bare-shaft tuning to make sure that my pressure button settings were still good.

The previous day's bow maintenance / adjustments had clearly paid off.

A photo of an archery range with a single target boss with an 80 cm target face at 50 metres. The sky is gray and overcast. There is a row of dark green trees on the horizon. The grass is green and lush. * Another Duchess of Spring Alt-text production ™
A photo of an 80 cm archery target face on a target boss at 30 metres. There are six arrows in it: 3 in the gold circle. 2 in the red and 1 in the blue. The arrows have black carbon shafts with mauve wraps, purple and black fletchings and white nocks. This was my best end at this distance. * Another Duchess of Spring Alt-text production ™
A photo of an 80 cm archery target face on a target boss at 30 metres. There are six arrows in it: 5 in the red circle and 1 stray in the black. One of the arrows in the red is a bare-shaft (un-fletched) arrow. This was one of the ends where I was doing the bare-shaft tuning. The object is to have the bare-shaft arrow, that has no fletchings to fly as straight and as close as possible to the group of fletched arrows. I was very happy with this result and therefore no further pressure button adjustments were necessary. The arrows have black carbon shafts with mauve wraps, purple and black fletchings and white nocks. * Another Duchess of Spring Alt-text production ™
A photo of 5 very well behaved light brown geese that seemed to have taken up residence on the archery range. Thankfully they flew off before I started shooting. The sky is gray and overcast. There is a row of dark green trees on the horizon. The grass is green and lush. * Another Duchess of Spring Alt-text production ™

Bow maintenance time.

It's safe to say that my archery has been pretty well down the toilet this year, compared to last year.

So instead of continuing to beat myself up for being a rubbish archer, I thought it might be worth spending a little time checking over my bow setup.

All the usual stuff was OK, brace height etc.
So I busted out the big guns: the Beiter limb alignment gauges.

Sure enough my bottom limb was out of alignment by almost 1/8th inch.

A quick adjust of the limb pocket with two allen keys and all is well again.

This is why I don't shoot a traditional stick / string bow. There is more control over issues such as this one with a modern take-down / International Limb Fitting (ILF) design

Let's see how my next shoot goes.

A photograph of a modern bare-bow suspended between 2 light brown bamboo bistro style chairs. Attached to each end of limbs of the bow, are two yellow plastic Beiter limb alignment gauges. The bow riser is gun-metal gray and the recurve limbs are black with an orange and white manufacturer's logo printed on them. The bow string is supposed to align between the two black stripes on both gauges if they are setup correctly. In the background is a sand coloured carpet, with an instruction leaflets and some allen keys on it. * Another Duchess of Spring Alt-text production ™
A photograph of the upper limb of modern bare-bow resting on a light brown bamboo bistro style chair. Attached to each end of limb of the bow, are two yellow plastic Beiter limb alignment gauges. The recurve limb is black. The bow string is not correctly aligned between the two black stripes on both gauges which shows that one of the two limbs is out oof alignment. In the background is a sand coloured carpet. * Another Duchess of Spring Alt-text production ™
A photograph of a blue 'T' shaped bow square clipped to a white bowstring with lack centre serving and red tied-on nocking points. The other end of the bow square is touching the steel arrow rest on the riser of the bow. The riser is gunmetal gray with a wooden grip. This is how to check that the bow's lower nocking point is set at the correct height: in this case 1/4" above the arrow rest. The bow is resting on a light brown pine table. A sand coloured carpet is in the background. * Another Duchess of Spring Alt-text production ™
A photograph of the lower limb of modern bare-bow resting on a light brown bamboo bistro style chair. Attached to each end of limb of the bow, are two yellow plastic Beiter limb alignment gauges. The recurve limb is black with an orange and white manufacturer's logo printed on them. The bow string is now correctly aligned between the two black stripes on both gauges now that the lower limb pocket has been adjusted to correct the alignment. In the background is a sand coloured carpet. * Another Duchess of Spring Alt-text production ™

It was still tipping down with rain this morning here on the 'sub-tropical' south coast.

So once again it was indoor target archery. 🏹

This was my second session after switching back to my carbon ACC arrows instead of my aluminium ones.

I came very close to equalling my personal best for the Portsmouth round.
This was despite having to tune my pressure button settings due to my technique having changed significantly since the end of last year.

As usual, archery is a case of two steps forward, one to the side and one step back.

All in all I feel that I'm moving in the right direction.

I just need to shoot more often than I am doing at the moment.

A photo of an indoor archery range. There are three black foam archery bosses in a row. They have light brown wooden frames / stands. There is an off white back-stop curtain behind them. The boss on the right has a 60 cm target face on its right hand side. The middle boss has a 40 cm 3 spot target face on its right hand side. The left hand boss is blank. The walls of the range are mid brown wood and the floor is grey painted concrete. * Another Duchess of Spring Alt-text production ™
A photo of a 60 cm archery target face with white, black, blue, red and yellow rings on a white background. There are three arrows in the target. Two of them are in the yellow centre circle and one is in the red. The arrows have black carbon shafts with purple and black vanes. The nocks at the ends of the arrows are white. * Another Duchess of Spring Alt-text production ™

It was tipping down with rain and was windy on the 'sub-tropical' south coast.
I hadn't done any archery at all during the couple of weeks or so over the recent cold spell.

So, today it had to be indoor target archery.

I was the only person in the indoor range at around 09:00 this morning.

After doing my warm up exercises, I started of with a few dozen arrows of blind, blank boss shooting.
Because the draw, expansion and release is all executed 'blind', it is a great technique for training the body how it should 'feel' when the techniques are executed.
The mind is not pre-occupied with aiming at anything.

After that, I shot a 'Portsmouth' round: 5 dozen arrows on 60 cm target face at 20 yards.
Considering that I hadn't done any shooting for over two weeks it went quite well.

I made a new personal …

A photo of an indoor archery range. There are three black foam archery bosses, which have light brown wooden frames. The boss on the right has a 60cm target face pinned on the right hand side. It is in the standard archery target face colours: The inner circle is yellow / gold, next to it is a red circle, then blue, then black and an outer ring of white. There is a white backstop curtain hanging behind the three bosses. The walls are brown plywood and the concrete floor is painted gray. * Another Duchess of Spring Alt-text production ™
A close up photo of an archery boss. It is black foam, with some thin yellow horizontal. It is on a light brown wooden stand / frame. There is no target face on the boss it is completely blank. There a 6 aluminium arrows, in a group, sticking out of the foam. The arrow shafts are silver / grey. The arrows are fletched with blue and white fletches and the nocks at that end of the arrows are white. This was taken during my warm-up session of 'blind', blank boss shooting. It is a great method for practising technique. I was happy with the arrow grouping given that I was drawing and releasing with my eyes shut and hadn't shot for over two weeks. * Another Duchess of Spring Alt-text production ™
A photo of an archery target face. There are three arrows in the target face. One is in the inner gold circle, one in the outer gold circle and one in the inner red circle. This was my highest scoring end of the Portsmouth round: 27 out of a possible 30. The arrow shafts are silver / grey. The arrows are fletched with blue and white fletches and the nocks at that end of the arrows are white. * Another Duchess of Spring Alt-text production ™

I spent yesterday morning (25th December) down at the indoor archery range, along with a few other non-Xmas folk.

It was a good start to the day of the pagan feast.

One of the more enlightened club coaches was down there. They immediately observed a basic flaw in my technique which could be simply corrected - i.e. 'string picture'.

I immediately acted upon his suggestion and of course my shooting immediately fell apart as it does when one concentrates on a single aspect of shooting.

However, I persevered with their advice and abandoned scoring the round I was shooting.
Within an hour, I was beginning to get nice tight arrow groups.

It was a really great morning spent with some nice people and Xmas free.

A photo of a 60 cm archery target face. It shows three aluminium arrows with blue / white fletchings in a tight group in the 9 ring of the gold centre. * Another Duchess of Spring Alt-text production ™
A photo of a 60 cm archery target face. It shows three aluminium arrows with blue / white fletchings. 2 of the arrows are in the 10 circle of the gold whilst one has strayed just outside the gold into the 8 ring of the red. * Another Duchess of Spring Alt-text production ™
A photo of a small indoor archery range. The picture show 2 of the 3 black foam archery target bosses located in the range. The one on the right has a single 60 cm target face located to the right hand side.. The walls are light brown plywood. There is a white steel wire reinforced safety curtain hanging behind the target bosses. The floor in the foreground is medium gray. * Another Duchess of Spring Alt-text production ™

Wednesday Morning ✅

Cold and miserable ✅

Outdoor archery range waterlogged ✅

Then it must be indoor target archery! ✅

I finally gave in after weeks of not being able to shoot due to wet weather and general lack of motivation and shot in the indoor range.

I don't particularly enjoy indoor archery.
I've been wary about doing so due to Covid as it is a small indoor range.

So I shot my very first bare-bow 'Portsmouth' round (even though I wasn't actually in Portsmouth, but in the same county though).

It's 5 dozen arrows shot at 20 yards on a 60 cm target face.

I got a reasonable score and was in good company of a couple of top class female archers.

It was a good restart to shooting again.
I just need to get back into doing it regularly.

Hey 😁

What would it take for you to join (or at least checkout) an club? What would make it appealing to you? What hinders you from doing so?

I'm currently setting one up with the goal to support underrepresented groups (for instance women) in the sport of @archery.

Disclaimer: The club is going to be based in Germany and has nothing to do with hunting. It's a sole recreational and competitive sports club.

Please for reach! 🚀

Thank you for taking the time! 🙌♥️