When you have club members that routinely travel to Lancaster Archery Supply for JOAD and Tournaments, it can be tempting to pick up random odds and ends – after all, they always ask if there is anything they can pick up for you while they are there. On one such occasion, I had a friend pick me up some 30-06 Outdoors Mini Vegas Faces. I had been seeing them pop up around the range and they looked like a great …
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Since becoming a part of the Online Archery Challenge Facebook Group, I’ve been seeing several people post photos of their league scores. Unlike leagues at Stowe Archers, where we shoot a 450 Round on a Vegas Face, the NFAA 5-Spot Face seems to be very popular. In an attempt to get out of my comfort zone and try something a little different, I hung a 5-Spot Target and shot a 300 Round. The last time I shot this particular round …
I’m a bit of a numbers guy and I tend to be a bit competitive. As a result, keeping track of scores and practice sessions is imperative to tracking progress. For the past couple of months, I’ve been using spreadsheets and apps with mixed results. I recently came across a product called My Spots Journal. It is a spiral-bound archery journal being produced by Robbie Surface from Surface Archery. There is also a companion journal entitled My 3D Journal. The …
One Sunday, a couple of weeks ago, I was working at Stowe Archers. It was the day of our fist Paper Animal Point Series shoot and I was standing behind the kitchen counter, hoping that a crowd would come walking through the door. To pass the time, I was passively watching episodes of Nock On Archery that I had playing on the clubhouse DVD player. A tip segment pulled me out of my daydream and I watched John Dudley explain …
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been shooting as much USPSA as my schedule allows. Aside from being rusty from a winter filled with everything but gun handling, it has become abundantly clear that I need to start a dry-fire regiment. Last night I loaded up Ben Stoeger’s Dry-Fire Book (The first one – I haven’t purchased the second one yet) and picked out a drill to get started. I wound up going with Single Target Gun Handling and …
Have you ever had to perform an activity cold and thought to yourself “That sucked, I wish I could have warmed up first.” I’ve been struggling with my first USPSA Stage of a given match and that very same line has been crossing my mind a lot lately. I think I may have stumbled onto something earlier this month, which seems to make my first stage run a little smoother. The day before I match I hit the range to …
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