Archery Competition
This is an Image of an Archery Target via Wikipedia
After years of archery target practice in my back yard (as well as an indoor range I set up in our basement – that my wife really doesn’t like), I decided to try my luck in a few local archery competitions. If you’re a bow hunter, you know what it’s like to sit in the woods and pull back with full concentration.
In an archery competition, pulling back is a whole other story. Often the environment is noisy. People are talking and staring at you. And many times, you stand right next to someone else pulling back a string and letting the arrows fly. Despite this, you have to hit the target, and hopefully the bulls-eye.
Now in the past, I have had a pretty good run in archery competitions. But this year, due to my busy work schedule, I did not compete. But over the weekend, I did drive out to see how people are doing. I spent some time talking to the competitors and saw my Mentor – a gentleman based in PA who is incredibly well known in the sport.
All of the excitement has me itching to compete next year. So I guess I will once again start driving my wife crazy as I shoot some practice arrows in my basement range. (Now, my range isn’t too professional. If I shoot too low, I hit the washer and the dryer. And if I shoot too high, I hit the stairway. So I have to aim just right to hit the target against the opposite wall. But it works for me – really drives my wife crazy though. I can’t stress this enough. Ha!)
Speaking of driving my wife crazy, I finally gave her the fabric softener sheets back…
I have not mentioned this yet. But I am very conscious any smells on my hunting clothing. If you wash your stuff during the season, your items must have NO SCENT! I’m serious. I won’t even put gas in my car the day of the hunt – for fear the whitetail buck will smell me downwind. My wife’s fabric softener sheets usually also disappear for the entire hunting season. Oops.
I am a firm believer in avoiding scented anything during the season.
Happy Hunting,
Paul