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Hi all!
I'm new to this site...and for all intents and purposes...new to archery and wanted to introduce myself and the bow I've aquired.
I'm looking to learn stuff here and try and become a good enough archer that I can hunt with a bow.
Frankly I stumbled onto archery and the old Wing recurve I have by pure accident...but find that as I've started learning to shoot it over the last month I'm become pretty obsessed with the whole thing.
Where to start??? Well as a teenager, I fiddled with a bow but could never figure out why I couldnt hit anything with it.....flash forward 30 years and I find out that I'm cross-eye dominant...right eyed...and left handed!
About 5 years ago my wife dragged me off to garage sales and while she's looking at her girl stuff...I'm tapping my foot with my arms crossed waiting when I see a rather nice looking bow in the corner of these's peoples garage.
I pick it up and its dirty and has no string but it looks cool and its only $5 bucks so I buy it....but then it sits in my garage for 3 or 4 years because I can't find a string that fits...its a 69" bow which the guys at the sporting goods shop told me was an odd-ball size and they dont have one....
Flash forward to 2 months ago...I'm at a tradeshow in San Antonio Tx and there's this Vintage archery guy there who I start talking to and he tells me he makes custom strings for old bows and if I'll bring it by he'll fix it up so I can shoot it..
The next time I'm in San Antonio I bring him the bow and he says wow! This is a Wing Presentation 1 from probably the early 1960's and its in super condition too....these are really nice , great shooting bows and worth some money (he offered me $400 on the spot if I wanted to selll- I didnt)
So he built a new fllemish twist string and polished it all up and checked it out and said the limbs were strieght with no twist and that I should really enjoy it...and I have!
I got some new carbon fiber arrows with 100 grain field points that the local archery shop said were the correct stiffness and length for my bow and have been shooting the hell out of it the last month and really enjoying it......I've been a gun hunter my whole life and now I find myself absolutely eaten up with the idea of bow hunting.....
I'm having to learn to shoot it right handed since I'm right eye dominant and thats been a bit of a challange but after 2 sessions a week for two weeks I can keep all 6 of my arrows in about a 5" circle at 10 yards....my biggest issue frankly is getting a consistant release...I'm trying both a split finger tab and a glove...I seem to be more accurate with the tab....one finger above and two fingers below with either....one of the archery trainers at the range has also suggested that since I'm brand new to archery that I might try what he called the "apache style" draw with all three fingers below the arrow saying that some guys shooting instinctive without sights do better with that.....I'm going to try that on thursday...my next trip to the range.....
Any imput and help would be appreciated here....thanks.....Larry
I'm new to this site...and for all intents and purposes...new to archery and wanted to introduce myself and the bow I've aquired.
I'm looking to learn stuff here and try and become a good enough archer that I can hunt with a bow.
Frankly I stumbled onto archery and the old Wing recurve I have by pure accident...but find that as I've started learning to shoot it over the last month I'm become pretty obsessed with the whole thing.
Where to start??? Well as a teenager, I fiddled with a bow but could never figure out why I couldnt hit anything with it.....flash forward 30 years and I find out that I'm cross-eye dominant...right eyed...and left handed!
About 5 years ago my wife dragged me off to garage sales and while she's looking at her girl stuff...I'm tapping my foot with my arms crossed waiting when I see a rather nice looking bow in the corner of these's peoples garage.
I pick it up and its dirty and has no string but it looks cool and its only $5 bucks so I buy it....but then it sits in my garage for 3 or 4 years because I can't find a string that fits...its a 69" bow which the guys at the sporting goods shop told me was an odd-ball size and they dont have one....
Flash forward to 2 months ago...I'm at a tradeshow in San Antonio Tx and there's this Vintage archery guy there who I start talking to and he tells me he makes custom strings for old bows and if I'll bring it by he'll fix it up so I can shoot it..
The next time I'm in San Antonio I bring him the bow and he says wow! This is a Wing Presentation 1 from probably the early 1960's and its in super condition too....these are really nice , great shooting bows and worth some money (he offered me $400 on the spot if I wanted to selll- I didnt)
So he built a new fllemish twist string and polished it all up and checked it out and said the limbs were strieght with no twist and that I should really enjoy it...and I have!
I got some new carbon fiber arrows with 100 grain field points that the local archery shop said were the correct stiffness and length for my bow and have been shooting the hell out of it the last month and really enjoying it......I've been a gun hunter my whole life and now I find myself absolutely eaten up with the idea of bow hunting.....
I'm having to learn to shoot it right handed since I'm right eye dominant and thats been a bit of a challange but after 2 sessions a week for two weeks I can keep all 6 of my arrows in about a 5" circle at 10 yards....my biggest issue frankly is getting a consistant release...I'm trying both a split finger tab and a glove...I seem to be more accurate with the tab....one finger above and two fingers below with either....one of the archery trainers at the range has also suggested that since I'm brand new to archery that I might try what he called the "apache style" draw with all three fingers below the arrow saying that some guys shooting instinctive without sights do better with that.....I'm going to try that on thursday...my next trip to the range.....
Any imput and help would be appreciated here....thanks.....Larry