Absolutely, put a tape on your bow graduated in 5m steps. I followed a group of four compounds on a field course recently, they shot nearly as quickly as my four tradbow group because they all had their sight tapes.Print a sight tape and stick it to your sight track. Not rocket science. Leave your phone in the car. People with phones on a field course are really annoying.
Errrmm, did you get out of the wrong side of bed or something? It was a simple question and I never hold up the group; quite the opposite.Yeah, if you really want to hold up the group behind you while you mess about...
Get a grip.. it's supposed to be fun.
I thought you'd moved from target to escape some of that nonsense...?
<shakes head in despair>
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Hi KernowladFirst tournament being shot next weekend; I keep my sight marking saved on my phone; is it okay to refer to a mobile when shooting?
I can?t remember them all!
That's really great. It's a great area of archery.Well we did the tournament and it was brilliant fun. ... My son did very well indeed.
I'm not sure where this anti target feeling comes from, although from your previous posts you have had poor experiences, but to put a balance on things, in 30 years of shooting target I struggle to remember any poor experiences. Although I guess I could be in a clique and don't know it :sorry:So friendly and laid back compared to target archery too.
Yep there's a sight/eyeline convergence at close range which I only found about at a field archery tournament where I was pretty decent over 15 yards, terrible at the really close range stuff!A really weird thing happens to the sight numbers when you shoot less than about 12m. The numbers start going back up, so for example for my bow to hit at 5m I have to set the sight to the same mark as I would shoot a 30m target. I assume this is something to do with the fact that the arrow is located several inches below the sight.
You're both describing the same thing. The "line of sight" is determined by the positions of both the eye and the sight pin. Each of those things marks a point in space, and the straight line that joins both is the sight line. The sight marks are determined by the angle of the line of sight relative to the "arc" of trajectory.It's really to do with the arrow being several inches below the aiming eye. If the sight is set exactly the same distance above the arrow, as the eye is above the nock , the arrow sets off parallel to the line of sight. At any distance, the sight will need to be lower than that in order for the arrow to make up the deficit. Over a short distance the arrow needs to be elevated quite a lot in order to close the gap in such a short distance, hence the lower than expected sight mark. For longer distances, such as the outdoor ones, the arrow is elevated enough to rise above the line of sight and drop back down at the same level.
I am not just nit picking,I say that because the line of sight, is the one feature of the aiming system that stays in place at all distances; so it's a good starting point for working out why things happen as they do.
That's right. Because you're only allowed one set of marks, it's easier to say to archers chose one or the other, rather than having to check that the sight tape matches the written marks. Especially if someone was to have a sight tape for the flat, but written marks for... 15 degree downslope (you're not allowed your cut charts in WA)Bimble, that's interesting.
Can I clarify that sight tape, is a tape with marks on and the marks are for specific distances? Written sight marks would be a sheet or booklet with numbers on for specific distances... and the numbers refer to a scale on the sight?
If they are both correct, I am trying to think of a reason for not being allowed both.