3 out of six in the first 6 shots. the first one was high and helped me calibrate. the other 2 were narrow misses.
Second lot of six, 2 are in, one is a VERY narrow miss, and 2 are not terrible misses, only the top left is demonstrably out by too much.
Lessons Learnt:
The feather fletchings are definitely a marked improvement.
I am starting to learn to better judge the eyeballing of how to aim (without using any kind of sights/aiming tool, etc). I still occasionally shoot too high, assuming arrow drop will be more than it actually is.
I do catch my left forearm with the bowstring, but it’s not that bad an irritant even though it does leave a mark even through a hoodie I was wearing. Image below is just a bit over an hour after I fired the bow bandits only a tiny bit red. I do have an arm protecting thing, but forgot to put it on and its not really the right size for me anyway.
I’m now about 10% of the shots I gave myself to be able to hit a human sized target 70% of the time at 50 metres, and I can see that it’s probably an ambitious goal, but I think doable. I may need to get some kind of aiming tool to add to the bow though.
The other aim of 40% hits out to 100 metres will be a very long term goal and possibly near “impossible” to achieve in year one or even two. Depending on how often and how serious I get, I think it’s achievable anyway, but definitely more of a long term goal.
Lastly, the 40% hits at 20 metres on a 4” target and 60-70% hits on a 6” target I need to check on now, and perhaps I should focus on these aims first as I am currently firing at about 36m distance. Getting more accurate at a closer distance and then pulling back gradually would make sense with guns, and I don’t think it’s different with anything else.
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