So, it's raining...I've been shooting between the squalls. I keep hitting my nose and lip. Jillzee, thinks only a man would play a sport that leave wounds...LOL. I'm shooting well. I just need to remember to cast down my arrow twice before releasing, then just let the string pull away from your finger tips. Simple!
***tangent = ***
A new thing I might try is to just in the middle of a thought add in a shirt or album or even a song title, then get back to the main topic. Am I the only one...really...ok then.
I think Gregg Gutfeld should have been asked to do a late night comedy chair, that would have been BOLD. America in Hollywood are pussies. Well, dicks really. Pussies can take a pounding, balls are fragile. From France...call back.
Listening to punk rock. Just finished the dishes. Still raining, so I thought I might try this. I'm gonna load some pics of where I shoot. Well, I can't remember how to, so I'll relearn from my sweetie.
* CLEAVAGE...LOOK INTO IT.
* CAMELTOES...RIDE THE WAVE.
* BABY BOOMERS SUCK
Why can't people see that even though they like their leaders, their work is sub par. And to think that you know this and still follow them...that is stupid. What's wrong with the truth?
* NOT EVERYONE THAT SHITS ON YOU IS YOUR ENEMY...
NOT EVERYONE THAT GETS YOU OUT IS YOUR FRIEND.
The simplest things are the ones that take the most detail. Like being happy. listening to the wind flow threw the tree tops. I thought writing would be hard. The ideas!, not the pecking.
I'm gonna leave this on while I take a 20 minute break and check the fire. I'll try and get close-ups of the girls.
It's Miller Time. brb
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Friday, April 4, 2014
The Beginning
What came first, the chicken or the egg.
I don't know where to start, so I am going to jump in with just my thoughts and ideas in no particular order.
This year, I wanted to compete in the International Bow hunters Organization, (IBO) Northwest Triple Crown. It includes three shoots in the Idaho, Washington and Oregon area. For 2014, the three shoots are being held at Evergreen Archers (Spokane WA), Selkirk Archers (Bonner's Ferry ID) and Grand Ronde Bowmen (La Grande OR.).
On March 31st, I went to Evergreen Archers for the first leg. I compete in the traditional class (TRD), because I shoot a modern recurve bow. It's known as a ILF recurve. The plan was to take the family and visit my sister who also lives in the area, but like they say "Life is what happens after you make plans," so my daughter wanted to work extra at her job to make some money for her trip to Ireland this August. My son said he had a gig to ref a wrestling tourney, and the cherry on the top, the love of my life caught my cold and didn't feel well. So, I was in quandary leave my love and go alone or skip it altogether, after all it's just archery. Well, there is some history to why I wanted to go, even maybe needed to go, and this is the story.
Back in mid 2010 and even before then, I started to miss something in archery. I was shooting compound bows and I just kept thinking I was missing something. Like when you feel like your being stared at from afar. Anyway, I was thinking about getting into compound target archery, why, I don't know. So there I was floundering around, I knew archery was still part of it, just where and at what level.
It was August, a warm day and I was doing something at the club/range. I pulled into the area at the flat range to talk with some other archers. There were some archers talking and shooting. I walked up and started to listen to them talk. One guy was looking to sell his bow, a recurve. As I stood there the guy selling the recurve, asked me if I wanted to fling some arrows from his bow. I laughed and said YES! I grabbed the bow and nocked an arrow, as I raised my arm and drew the bow back, I had no real idea of how to aim, stand or the release. As I looked down the shaft of the arrow and stayed solid in my anchor, I eyed the spot where I want the arrow to go. BOOM...that arrow almost hit the spot I was looking at. Well, my brain noticed something, but I was too excited to truly noticed it. I thought "beginner's luck." I drew another arrow, and it landed even closer to the spot...this went on for the next 8 arrows.
When I set the bow down, I knew right then that traditional archery was what I needed. His name is Tony Lama, and the bow was a 60" 58# Bob Lee take down recurve. That bow shot an arrow right at the spot I was aiming, without me even thinking about it.
I will talk more about the many steps and bows between then and this year's IBO shoot. I put down my compound and bought a late 80's, 66" 64# Stottler one piece off the shelf recurve, that was February 2011. I'm shooting it in the photo on this blog.
I was also wanting to get out of only shooting at Cedar River Bowmen shoots, my club, and see some other clubs out there. I had no idea what an IBO shoot was or even the rules, but I went for it anyhow. I shot horribly on the first leg of the 2012 Triple Crown -- way out of the running. I didn't care since I was so new at it. That year the second leg was held at my home club. I shot it and did about the same, horrible. Had a lot of fun, just struggled with the learning curve. The last leg was in the La Grande Or., up in the Dead Mans Pass area, what a name.
At the end of the third leg, we were sitting around and looking at the score board. I noticed the scores from the other TRD shooters. They had it all written out: 1st leg, 2nd leg and 3rd leg. I noticed that the TRD board broke down like this for most of the shooters: 1st leg score, 2nd leg blank and 3rd leg score. I also noticed that the other TRD archers had higher total points on each of their two shoots than I had combined on all three shoots. My face became red; I knew what was coming. In order to win the Triple Crown over-all shooter, one needs to attend all three legs. I felt like the family dog that ate a roll of toilet paper. I knew I had won, but I didn't feel legitimate about it. I have learned a lot in the years since I started and I wanted to go back and win or lose it legitimately.
I won the 2014 first leg with a score of 263 out of 440. I can and will do better in Bonner's Ferry. To be continued.........
I don't know where to start, so I am going to jump in with just my thoughts and ideas in no particular order.
This year, I wanted to compete in the International Bow hunters Organization, (IBO) Northwest Triple Crown. It includes three shoots in the Idaho, Washington and Oregon area. For 2014, the three shoots are being held at Evergreen Archers (Spokane WA), Selkirk Archers (Bonner's Ferry ID) and Grand Ronde Bowmen (La Grande OR.).
On March 31st, I went to Evergreen Archers for the first leg. I compete in the traditional class (TRD), because I shoot a modern recurve bow. It's known as a ILF recurve. The plan was to take the family and visit my sister who also lives in the area, but like they say "Life is what happens after you make plans," so my daughter wanted to work extra at her job to make some money for her trip to Ireland this August. My son said he had a gig to ref a wrestling tourney, and the cherry on the top, the love of my life caught my cold and didn't feel well. So, I was in quandary leave my love and go alone or skip it altogether, after all it's just archery. Well, there is some history to why I wanted to go, even maybe needed to go, and this is the story.
Back in mid 2010 and even before then, I started to miss something in archery. I was shooting compound bows and I just kept thinking I was missing something. Like when you feel like your being stared at from afar. Anyway, I was thinking about getting into compound target archery, why, I don't know. So there I was floundering around, I knew archery was still part of it, just where and at what level.
It was August, a warm day and I was doing something at the club/range. I pulled into the area at the flat range to talk with some other archers. There were some archers talking and shooting. I walked up and started to listen to them talk. One guy was looking to sell his bow, a recurve. As I stood there the guy selling the recurve, asked me if I wanted to fling some arrows from his bow. I laughed and said YES! I grabbed the bow and nocked an arrow, as I raised my arm and drew the bow back, I had no real idea of how to aim, stand or the release. As I looked down the shaft of the arrow and stayed solid in my anchor, I eyed the spot where I want the arrow to go. BOOM...that arrow almost hit the spot I was looking at. Well, my brain noticed something, but I was too excited to truly noticed it. I thought "beginner's luck." I drew another arrow, and it landed even closer to the spot...this went on for the next 8 arrows.
When I set the bow down, I knew right then that traditional archery was what I needed. His name is Tony Lama, and the bow was a 60" 58# Bob Lee take down recurve. That bow shot an arrow right at the spot I was aiming, without me even thinking about it.
I will talk more about the many steps and bows between then and this year's IBO shoot. I put down my compound and bought a late 80's, 66" 64# Stottler one piece off the shelf recurve, that was February 2011. I'm shooting it in the photo on this blog.
I was also wanting to get out of only shooting at Cedar River Bowmen shoots, my club, and see some other clubs out there. I had no idea what an IBO shoot was or even the rules, but I went for it anyhow. I shot horribly on the first leg of the 2012 Triple Crown -- way out of the running. I didn't care since I was so new at it. That year the second leg was held at my home club. I shot it and did about the same, horrible. Had a lot of fun, just struggled with the learning curve. The last leg was in the La Grande Or., up in the Dead Mans Pass area, what a name.
At the end of the third leg, we were sitting around and looking at the score board. I noticed the scores from the other TRD shooters. They had it all written out: 1st leg, 2nd leg and 3rd leg. I noticed that the TRD board broke down like this for most of the shooters: 1st leg score, 2nd leg blank and 3rd leg score. I also noticed that the other TRD archers had higher total points on each of their two shoots than I had combined on all three shoots. My face became red; I knew what was coming. In order to win the Triple Crown over-all shooter, one needs to attend all three legs. I felt like the family dog that ate a roll of toilet paper. I knew I had won, but I didn't feel legitimate about it. I have learned a lot in the years since I started and I wanted to go back and win or lose it legitimately.
I won the 2014 first leg with a score of 263 out of 440. I can and will do better in Bonner's Ferry. To be continued.........
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