Greetings, Fellow Odd Hobbies Practitioners!
Finding time to do odd things? I had about an hour or so today.
A week or so ago, I just mentioned to a friend here on Hive I was probably going to buy me my own recurved bow (after buying a few for the people around me). I was going for something relatively cheap but still to my taste.
The Core Archery Verve series have been fitting that description. I did not find a wooden body, though. When first I bought one of those, it was for my wife. And the wooden body looked better than the metal one. They say it's not as durable and a bit heavier. I like it, though.
When I was looking for a bow for my brother, they had these metal bodies...and when the time came for me to pick one, only metal bodies were left among those physically in the store.
Aiming with the wooden one worked better for me. I was able to get the vertical axis straight. And when I tried my bro's bow, I noticed that the arrows went a bit to the right.
Speaking of aiming without sighting systems, though.
Which...I decided was time to become irrelevant when I bought sights for all three bows.
Here's what they look like.
You screw the part on the left to a special slot in the body of the bow. It's found on the right side of the body for right-handed people who would hold the bow in their left hand and pull the string with their right one. Then, the pin itself, the piece to the right, goes to its own designated place, hanging across and in front of the bow's body.
Like this:
Once you mount it, it needs calibrating
There's a slide that allows you to correct the pin vertically, moving it up and down. When you bring it lower, you practically raise the tip of the arrow and it goes higher.
I am practicing my shots at a twenty-yards distance and there's no visible arch at this point — the arrows would fly in a straight line, without losing height, until reaching the target.
The pin is on a screw and it can to the left or to the right of the position you previously fixed it into.
At first, I had no idea where the sights should be so it needs some control shots aimed at the center of the shield.
At the bottom of this image, you can see the plastic attachment that holds the arrow's weight. That's where the tip would be.
I know from experience that if I am aiming with no sighting system, I should aim way lower than the target. More or less, where you can see a small light blurry light spot just where the arrow holder is.
In my case, it's a small tin can that I put there exactly for that reason.
So, during the first shots, i am kind of "cheating". I aim through the arrow, not through the sights, but while comparing with the sights.
I made a small downwards correction when I saw the shot number 1-in-red. So that shot number 2-in-red would hit a bit higher.
Once the calibrating was done, I had another challenge. Strong winds came out and stayed for the afternoon.
And it turned out to be hard to hold the bow, still. The shoulders had large enough surface so that the wind would rock the whole bow in my hand.
Precision was postponed.
Peace!
Yours,
M.