Good day - but paying for it.

Yesterday saw LEFA's Micheal Johnson club shoot, Micheal was a LEFA member who died suddenly after being diagnosed with cancer, a shoot was dedicated to him and the best handicapped archer on the day wins a plaque for the year.

Well for a change I had a reasonable day in the field, breaking the 600 (36 targets) for the first time since my freestyle days, now I accept this is my fault as I havent being shooting field shoots nearly half as much as I could have been doing, and its not as though I know the course, its the first time I have shot that course at my club.

I shot 636 (ave 17.7 per target) with 7 24's coming in the 1st 21 targets I came away pleased, could have been better though, I had to resort to my 3rd arrow once and only got a 4 and too many second arrows (6 in total). Richard Pearson (a fine freestyler) took the handicapped 1st place and I came in first of the unlimiteds.

So in all I'm pretty pleased with the score but can see plenty of room for improvement, I dont expect to up there with his lordship and The Ratfighter, but I would like to close the gap a little bit.

Now I'm paying for it today as for the last week or so I've been suffering with a bad cold (commonly know as man flu ) and a stiff back, yesterdays fresh air and excersise seemed to have done the trick, but this morning boy am I paying for it, legs arms and back all in aching and the cold is back I shall rest up this week and hopefully be back in fine fettle next week

I'm gonna start listing my scores as a referance point for myself and some of you may find it interesting/good for a laugh

No	Arrow	Score	*	Running Total
1	2	14		14
2	1	24	*	38
3	1	24	*	62
4	1	16		78
5	3	4		82
6	1	16		98
7	1	16		114
8	1	20		134
9	1	20		154
10	1	20		174
11	1	16		190
12	1	16		206
13	1	24	*	230
14	1	20		250
15	1	24	*	274
16	1	24	*	298
17	1	16		314
18	1	20		334
19	1	16		350
20	1	24	*	374
21	1	24	*	398
22	1	16		414
23	2	10		424
24	1	16		440
25	2	14		454
26	2	10		464
27	2	14		478
28	1	16		494
29	1	20		514
30	1	16		530
31	2	14		544
32	1	16		560
33	1	20		580
34	1	16		596
35	1	20		616
36	1	20		636

From that you can see that shots 23 - 27 cost me some points, I always seem to have a 'low' spot during a shoot and it usually lasts longer than 5 targets, so maybe I'm begining to cure this, I guess we'll see next time out

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Mjollnir · Grand Master Bowman

Looks good to me, not that I understand the scoring, better than I could do I'm sure.

I take it you get three arrows to hit a target, and The first arrow scores higher than if the hit was with the second arrow etc?

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