recording sightmarks

[tel]

Just a little question that I've been meaning to ask....

to what degree and how (for convenience) do you record sight marks? Scribbled in the back of the scorepad/distance only....seperate table including weather conditions....or any variation on the theme....what works for you?

[Field Archer]

I use a computer program, Archers Advantage to create a sight tape that I stick on the sight.

[pHz]

just distance and mark scribbled in my little notebook

(would add any short notes that were particularly relevant though)

thinking about adding marks or a tape to the rear / side of my sight as i get more confident in my marks

slainte rob

[ben tarrow]

Remember, when you record your sight marks, dont stop at scale setting for distance (eg 30yds = 4.25 on my sight)

The next step on is to record how much change on the sight causes one color difference at any distance. (eg 30yds - 4.2 on my sight; 1 color band on the target =0.22 change on my sight). Same with the left/right movement too!

So many archers know where to put the sight for 50yds, but then when the sighters end up in the blue at 4 oclock, have no idea how much to adjust by!

Another handy archery tip from the BT book of obvious things that make you go "doh"

[GreenSteve]

i have a card in my score book with all the distances on it and next to it is scribbled the sight mark (3.5 full ext or 2.8 ext 6 etc)
only goes wrong when i write it down wrong and miss out a decimal point or put it in the wrong place

[Murray]

I tend to write down good weather and bad weather marks. (usually the highest and lowest) for each distance.

As another tip - I've got a little plastic wallet that I keep it in to stop it - (a) blowing away in the wind and (b) getting wet. And also keep a copy in my tackle box just in case!

[BowSurfer]

I have a table in my score book, with all distances, imperial and metric sorted in order of increasing distance. If my make a significant change in my setup I start a new column of readings.
In addition, I record the starting and ending sight mark for every round shot on the my personal score sheet (not the one I hand in). I keep these in my score book for some time so that I can always look back quickly to see what I used for this distance last time.
Finally, once I have several sight marks for a given setup, I put the data into a spreadsheet and produce a graph of sight marks against distance, one each for imperial and metric, which is always handy for interpolating distances that i haven't shot yet.

[ThePinkOne]

I'm getting worried I might be a geek....

Last summer, I got as many sight marks as possible, then graphed them to fill in the gaps. Then I made neat little Excel tables, printed them out and laminated them into quiver-size cards, leaving an extra column I could fill in with a waterproof OHP pen for fine corrections. These I fed back into the original graphing results weekly to improve the graph fit.

By the end of the season, the sight marks at every disance were spot on.

Downside is though I've since changed the bow and will be using different arrows, so I'll have to do it again this year.....

Does this make me very sad......?

P.

[pelican]

Each distance has a page in my notebook.

If I have to change the sightmark, I write it down, along with weather, light conditions, anything else I feel affects my shooting. If I make a new string, or change anything, it gets written down too.

I will buy a new notebook at start of April, carry forward last years sightmarks as a start (didn't change anything indoors), as well as my pb's, will decide my goals for the season, then start fresh. What I no longer do is the, what did I get last time I shot here/this comp/ etc. Am working on every shot being in the now, fingers crossed it'll work.

[LIzardEye]

Originally Posted by ThePinkOne

Does this make me very sad......?

P.

Only if you carried out interpolations on the plotted marks using a number of regression equations and then worked out that a third order polynomial was a better fit than a logarithmic equation.

Not that I've done that of course...