The photos that aren't of an archery target are of the archery lizard. This water skink was keeping an eye on things from under the club house.
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What my photo feed looks like after an archery practice session. I do this mainly to keep count of how many ends I've shot. Today, while the kid was in the youth squad coaching session, I got through 20 ends (120 arrows).
I am feeling that I might be able to handle a higher draw weight at this point.
Meanwhile I did manage to get 11 ends in myself, mostly before the rain started. Challenging conditions with blustery winds from the start, but I did OK.
The SOPA Youth Squad did manage to do an hour and a half of shooting by setting up on the under cover shooting line, but even they retreated inside the club house eventually.
Warm at the range today for the kid's and my coaching session with coach Alex.
The facilities at SOPA are really very good, especially when the lines are freshly repainted and the targets have been recently repaired.
You can call me Fletcher...
8 of the kid's 12 arrows had a vane that had either come off entirely or was starting to come away, and on every arrow it was the upper vane. Odd.
Anyway, I have glued fresh vanes onto all the arrows. Hopefully the kid's fletchings will hold together now.
I managed to get the kid to join the archery club's youth coaching programme for the first time today. They weren't keen, but I think it'll do them a lot of good.
While that was going on I did some practice by myself, shooting for only the second time since 2 months off over the school holidays. Best I could manage at 40 metres was a couple of ends of 49 and I still felt a bit rusty, but based on my photos from practices last year it looks like I'm more or less back to where I was before the break.
The only negative today was vanes coming off four of the kid's arrow in the space of less than 2 hours. These are in addition to 3 other arrows of theirs that previously shed vanes, so now they're down to only 5 good arrows. I don't know why the kid is losing so many vanes when I haven't had a single one come off and I have the same make and model (Pandarus Alpha XT). Maybe their vanes are hitting their bow due to bad tuning, or maybe they just got a badly glued batch. Regardless of the cause I've got a lot of arrow maintenance to do before next weekend.
Archery selfie video with a twist...
Recording some of my shooting should help me fix my form errors, but the second part of this video clip is a just-for-fun thing I've been looking forward to doing ever since I decided to get the Insta360 Go Ultra.
I actually recorded that bit in 8x slow motion, but sped it back up to full speed in the edit to keep the clip length down.
Now that summer holidays are over and the kid is settling into high school we were able to cycle over to the archery club and do our first practice in two months. Very rusty, but it still felt good to do some stabbing-at-a-distance again.
This also gave me an opportunity to finally try out our tiny Svbony spotting scope and lightweight Smallrig tripod for the main purpose I bought them. I've got to say I'm very pleased with both of them. The view through the scope is clearer than it looks in my mobile phone snap.
I also did some experimenting with the Go Ultra, which I can also put on the tripod.
@aviancer Thanks.
Most archers seem to use 20-60x80 spotting scopes, but I came across a video by a former high level archer and current coach who said he almost never zoomed in beyond 25x. That gave me the idea that the 9-27x56 would be enough scope for the job, and it's so much smaller!
Anthony Horton