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So after another day of practice, and breaking another one of my light wood arrows, I have finally concluded....(and why did it take me this long?):
NFAA longbow is like trying to hammer nails with a crescent wrench.
Shooting a D bow with wood arrows from 8 to 80 yards, with a fixed hook and anchor, is using a tool that is totally unsuited for the job at hand. Now, some folks are really good hammering nails with just about anything. I saw a guy hammer nails with his head. That is exactly what it feels like to me, only in my case, my head is the longbow.
Today, I broke another one of my light arrows. I have not been able to get more since I use a non standard weight, diameter and length combination. I am back to my heavy arrows. That may not be a bad thing. It will shorten my point on, but at least I will give away less points on the short shots, and there are quite a few during the animal round.
So, one more tournament with the longbow and then back to the FITA barebow. In the end, the experiment with the longbow was worth it. I will definitely continue to shoot traditional tournaments with it. I am not sure about NFAA field. I have to remember that I originally went with the longbow because I had gotten too weak to carry my recurve. My health is back (some may argue that point since my blood sugar crashed at the tournament last week and I missed shooting over half of it), and with it, so has my ability to choose a more sensible path.
Two more weekends to try to get as many distances down as possible, followed by two days of flinging arrows all over the Fresno Archers field course. Folks in Clovis better be ready to duck.
NFAA longbow is like trying to hammer nails with a crescent wrench.
Shooting a D bow with wood arrows from 8 to 80 yards, with a fixed hook and anchor, is using a tool that is totally unsuited for the job at hand. Now, some folks are really good hammering nails with just about anything. I saw a guy hammer nails with his head. That is exactly what it feels like to me, only in my case, my head is the longbow.
Today, I broke another one of my light arrows. I have not been able to get more since I use a non standard weight, diameter and length combination. I am back to my heavy arrows. That may not be a bad thing. It will shorten my point on, but at least I will give away less points on the short shots, and there are quite a few during the animal round.
So, one more tournament with the longbow and then back to the FITA barebow. In the end, the experiment with the longbow was worth it. I will definitely continue to shoot traditional tournaments with it. I am not sure about NFAA field. I have to remember that I originally went with the longbow because I had gotten too weak to carry my recurve. My health is back (some may argue that point since my blood sugar crashed at the tournament last week and I missed shooting over half of it), and with it, so has my ability to choose a more sensible path.
Two more weekends to try to get as many distances down as possible, followed by two days of flinging arrows all over the Fresno Archers field course. Folks in Clovis better be ready to duck.