Emil

Emil wanted the head to be Emil :).
But, today i went to the klub to shoot, but I wasn't not so interested to shoot.
So I fixed my arrows first. Put some feathers and some knocks and points.
After that I checked my strings. I have to by some string (FF) to make the knocking
points to other strings (3 of them). One of them had the knocking point little up.
I tryed that and the arrows went to up clock one. Also the sring had the knocking point made of
tape. The "real" one had the metal ring and some plastic tape. No wonder that the hits were up.

So next week to shop, or visit my friend Urmas. I think that he has some string, to make some knocking point :)
Yesterday 111 arrows and today some 60...

Volleyball

Now my son Emil is sick and home, so no time to go shooting. Just playing volleyball on the evenings, but that's enough for now. Next competition 15.2, the barebow WC-competition.

No shooting

Just taking easy, after the weekends competition. Next week some tuning and shooting..

Winter field, score 345 + 346

New personal record in field ;). One point more than the last one.. The weather was better than I expected, but still it was cold in the open areas, where the wind could blow. Temperature was about +5, both days. And only little rain in the first day. So very nice winter field conditions.

On saturday I had some problems with measuring and shooting, exept in bunnies. But what else you can expect for the first day in field :). Second day was much better shooting and measuring, but the arrowrest broke again, I noticed it in target 16 :(. So that's why my short marks were off, and to the first bunny I shot 4,4,4..

So I have to start to change the arrowrest every month or so, that it works fine. In barebow the arrow kicks so hard to the arrowrest in short distancies. The rest get tired offen that in recurve.
But it was a nice start for the season.

The results will be in fieldarchery.org pages in some point. Some photos are allready there..

100 arrows outside

It was calm and nice +4 here in Virrat. So I desided to go outside to shoot, cause the weekend competition is also outside. Just testing the distancies and how much have to put on. Now it looks like, that the weather in Netherland is the same :).
Picture is from the Virrat. There I practice, when I visit the town.

Tuff

Its very demanding to shoot that good than I shot in Jyväskylä. After the competition I was mentaly and physicly done. It tooked couple days to recover. That was new feeling in archery ;).

I have had something else to do than shooting. We were couple days in Helsinki area, and after that I was the weekend in Tampere. But today I have time to go and take the distancies / measuring for the weekends field competition. Lets see how that works out. Also some fine tuning or checking that all the distancies are in the middle.

Scorecard

Thanks Guys :)
Here the Scorecard

Score 561

YES, I did it. New finnish record in 25m, 561 points. Its 2 points more than the last record 559 (Jarmo Hilli, 1993).
What elso to say, the shooting was very good, except coulpe of 7s and few 8s. But other hand I had 32 tens. Thats more than half of the arrows were in the middle, very happy ;).
Its result of lots of practice, and thanks to physic training I did not felt tired in any point of the shooting, that was new feeling. Yellow is enough I said, and it was true. I didn't hunt tens, I knew that the tens comes if they comes. I think, that was the secret to get 3 times 30points :).

133 yesterday

Its good to have someone to compete with in the practice. Yesterday i shot with Aulis (compound). We shot 18m to 2 vegas targets, so 6 arrow at time. My best 6 arrows was 59 and the worst was like 54. Some 6 arrows were really tight, but the I shot like two 8s or 7, and the game (12 arrows) was gone. But very good practice. Today just go and pick 4-5 good arrows to tomorrows competition.
Weather here in Virrat is cold, its -16 outside.

Easy 160 arrows

Had to put tape in the nose, no string anywhere, to change the metal ring... I shot to two 60cm targets. Could not hit the right target. The lightning was different, couldn't see the point clear. Arrows went left to line of 8-9. Same time, when shooting, marking witch arrows hit most in ten. Found 4 arrow that were better that others, so those are gonna be the competition arrows :). Tomorrow to play volleyball, we have a "ham melting" tournament.