Sunday. WA 18m: 549
I got all inspired after watching the Vegas indoor shoot on Youtube last night. George Ryals IV (AKA GRIV, who writes some really good compound archery articles) was commentating and he made an interesting comment about the dots on the compound scope that the women were using. They were both using large dots - I’m not sure how big, but he commented that he guessed they were big enough to cover, or nearly cover the entire yellow. Which is a good thing, especially when you’re shooting big far indoor arrows, because your eyes aren’t automatically drawn to the big black holes in the target face, which are often outside the very centre of the target. Huh, I thought, interesting theory.
In among my spare archery stuff, I found my old (slightly scratched) lens and my collection of dot and ring stickers. I found a dot that looked about the right size as the yellow on a 40cm face at 18m, by doing some guesstimation with some scaled target printouts, and put it all together.
This afternoon I started in and noticed straight off that I was way out to the right. That’s odd - but I realised that either this or the other lens decal might not be centred correctly. Adjusted and shot about 5 warmup ends of 6, then a full WA 18m. In the second half I was noticing that I was definitely throwing more 8s (4 yesterday, 6 today), but on the other hand, I was also shooting more 10s (9 yesterday, 15 today). Ended up on 549, which is 4 points up from yesterday, and marginally lower than my “normal” score that I shoot with my big fat arrows (550-555). I’m also *still* centred off to the right.
Verdict: it felt less twitchy, so I’ll stick with it.