Markers for Sighters

[Harlequin-LA]

I'm sure many of you will have experienced the frustration of shooting sighters and not being able to determine exactly where they have gone, until you retrieve them, thereby perhaps wasting one or two of your precious six.

Is there anything in the rules which prohibits a "marker" being attached to an arrow to provide a more visual clue ? I've just been experimenting with short lengths of fishermans chenelle tied loosely to my ACCs. Once they hit, the marker hangs down, letting me see exactly where the arrow has hit, without any noticable change in the flight of the arrow.

I'd appreciate any comments

[simon m]

Get a scope?.

[moley101]

I use binoculars on the line indoors, a scope outdoors and have day glow orange nocks which stand out quite well against all colours on the face.

[komtox]

I always use a scope outdoors, & binoculars indoor. To shoot blind imho is a waste of effort as you can only check you shots on retrieval.

[SLOWHAND]

Anything tied on to the arrow is bound to have an effect at the longer distances, it will lower your impact point and will increase any wind drift. I would also imagin that other archers shooting on your target would not be too happy with dangly bits obscuring the gold or their own arrows. Get a scope and use it for every arrow you shoot (except for the last one if any judges are watching).

[Kae]

Originally Posted by SLOWHAND

(except for the last one if any judges are watching).

Whys that Slowhand??

Kae

[SLOWHAND]

Originally Posted by Kae

Whys that Slowhand??

Kae

I believe there is a rule in some tournaments aginst scoping your last arrow(if not, it's certainly considered 'bad shooting etiquette'). This is to stop wasting everyones time while you minutely examine the target trying to see exactly where your last arrow went amoungst the twenty three others already in there.
I was once warned by a judge for doing this even though I wasn't the last one on the line.

[ThePinkOne]

Originally Posted by SLOWHAND

I believe there is a rule in some tournaments aginst scoping your last arrow(if not, it's certainly considered 'bad shooting etiquette'). This is to stop wasting everyones time while you minutely examine the target trying to see exactly where your last arrow went amoungst the twenty three others already in there.
I was once warned by a judge for doing this even though I wasn't the last one on the line.

Yes, there is. I got told off for it by a judge at the NCAS FITA Star last summer- and I wasn't the only one- they were up and down the line warning archers about it! They told us you were not allowed to look at your last arrow through the scope, but must leave the line immediately you finished shooting. Got to be honest, I hadn't realised and it's the first/onlytime I've seen it enforced. Not sure what the rule is in imperial rounds though.

That aside, I have since discussed the thing with our local national judge out of curiosity. He said that related to this, there is a bit of a debate in FITA at the moment as to when to put the red light up- can it be put up as soon as all archers are off the line even if full 4 or 2 mins shooting time not elapsed, or should it always await the clock.... obviously the former option can speed up the tournament. He therefore didn't personally have any prob with a person checking their last arrow if they were within time and lights and not last on the line but technically you are not supposed to check- you finish shooting the arrows then hoof it off the line. Simialrly in FITA you don;t normally await the person on the same target shooting their end- I think the main point is that you leave the line immediately you finish shooting.

Maybe Graham Potts can give more info on this if he's reading?

P.

[Schme1440]

Invest in a good set of Binoculars or a Spotting scope and a tri-pod.

[Tobytoolbag]

Originally Posted by Schme1440

Invest in a good set of Binoculars or a Spotting scope and a tri-pod.

...and use vanes/fletchings and/or nocks that are in a colour that shows up well against the colours of the target face...