An update on my #archery adventure progress to see how far I can go at field archery with my ridiculously cheap $200 compound bow.
I discovered that the Chinese company who make my bow, make a thumb button release as well, so I had to try one. For science!
I've only used a wrist strap release before so this thing is... Interesting.
It costs $35. For comparison a Truball Hunter is around $150 and a Carter will set you back $350. There's no adjustment for tension or travel and, hoo boy, is there a lot of travel. Like, half a mile of travel. I had to rotate the thumb button upwards so I could press it all the way down with my big mitt and get it to fire. 😄
It's also very short, so I extended my draw length by about an inch and a half.
So, did my #archery improve? Is it better than a tried and true wrist strap?
Well, yeah. In a way. I feel like the design is so bad, it becomes a feature instead of a bug. 😄
It has so much travel that it's somewhat of a surprise when it finally fires - which is what you want, and why people use those expensive back tension releases.
It's really effective, but I can't decide if the design was intentional or an accident. 😆
At my first ABA field #archery comp last month, I dropped a lot of points in the second, one-arrow round.
It was the afternoon, I was getting tired and not focusing as well. I didn't have target identification cards to locate the maximum points area, so I just aimed at if I was shooting for the best kill zone on a real animal - according to the targets, the ABA and I differ slightly on our opinions about where that is. I also discovered that I REALLY needed to learn to estimate the distances.
I missed at least six of the twenty targets completely in the second round which hurt my score severely. That's a potential one hundred and twenty points thrown away! 😬
The way the field #archery game is scored - three zones worth twenty, eighteen, and sixteen, with the sixteen zone being almost an outline of the entire animal, even dropping an arrow "somewhere" on the target would have gained me over eighty points more...
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