Hunting For Arrows

October 26th, I remember being excited that I was hitting the bag. November 7th November 12th 2019 November 14th, for some reason I'm always more accurate on this target than the Yellow Jacket one I have at home. My goal is to shoot a minimum of 500 arrows a week. This breaks down to 100 arrows 5 days a week. Some weeks I’m able to get 6 or 7 days in; but living in the Pacific Northwest I’m currently fighting with the lack of daylight. 4 days a week my commute gets me home when it’s already dark. I use the lights of the indoor arena to practice 2-3 nights a week and then use daylight hours on my work from home day and both weekend days. I’m the only one at the barn in the evening so I usually get in 40 -60 shots on foot and the remainder on Joe. On the weekends there is always a chance I won’t be able to shoot in the arena at the barn due to lessons and other riders, so I get my practice in on foot in the back yard.       Why 100 arrows ...

Last week while watching countless YouTube archery tutorials I had a minor panic attack when I thought I had been drawing my bow wrong for the past 2 months. I shoot righthanded and I line my arrow up on the right side of my recurve bow. I quickly had to tape the base of my left thumb due to fletching burns. My bow doesn’t have a shelf, or a left or right. I couldn’t remember why I had started with the arrow on the right side of the bow, but it was working for me. In the first few weeks I always shot to the right of the target, and it seemed my eye didn’t line up like all the institutive archery instructors said it would, but each night that I practiced my groupings were getting tighter and closer to the bullseye. I found a few more videos that assured me my draw was correct for mounted archery. Only difference was they all used a thumb draw with the right hand and I was using a three under draw which I preferred to the Mediterranean draw. So great, one more thing to learn – the t...