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Originally Posted by geoffretired ......The mental aspect is also fascinating-were you serious when you said you'd "Give up because it's too hard?"
Two hits isn't a huge percentage, but was that not offset by the huge excitement when you did? |
No, I never give up, I just curse a bit!!
You're right. The satisfaction of 1 hit was worth all the misses. After all, if it took that many misses (no matter how close they were), it must have been hard (for me) and so worth it when I did succeed.
The more I think about this aspect (and I, like many of us reading this and similar threads have obviously been thinking) I think that it would be very useful for me to practice like this.
I would rather come away from a practice session with a "5 hits today" stat than a general feeling that I was shooting well, grouping well, scoring OK.
I've shot a very small amount of field archery and find that relatively I'm better at this than target. The "only 1 shot here" aspect makes me shoot a good arrow.
This is not to say I don't like target, nor to say that I don't like conventional scoring.
Food for thought.
Simon
(who moves house tomorrow so hasn't shot since last friday. boxes everywhere but at least my archery kit is well packed)