Bad Week

The picture on the left is that of the arrows I use, they're both carbon fiber, same length, weight, and tips. The only difference is their fletching sizes, the one on top is shorter than the one on the bottom.

Well I haven't been having much time to do anything for the past few weeks, my weekday schedule is preoccupied by school and work, which is from 9 am to 5:30 pm.  Since, it is the fall season the amount of daylight is becoming shorter and shorter.  The only days I have to make it out to the archery range is the weekends, but this weekend it was raining pretty bad. The range I go to is an outdoor one, usually the rain isn't too much of a problem, the only down side is that when I go to retrieve my arrows their shafts gets wet making it hard to pull them out of the targets. I tried going to the indoor ranges they have around the Salt Lake area but I don't really like using them since a lot of people do.

Back On Topic

So I finally managed to get my pictures up. The picture on top is that of my first bow and the bottom picture is of my second bow. Both bows have extra attachments on them. The stabilizer is the attachment on the front a little to the bottom. Normally the bow is top heavy due to the positioning of the grip which is located a little below the center and the added target sight attachment gives it more weight on top. This causes the bow to lean back on the top after it is released from a full draw and this disrupts the travel path of the arrow. The stabilizer allows the bow to lean forward after it is release from a full draw making the arrow fly more accurately. The arrows I use are 26 inch carbon fiber shafts with a 100 gram iron tip. There is two kinds of fletching or tails I use on the arrows, long fletching for long shots and short fletching for straight shots. I use carbon fiber because it is stronger than aluminum and it is just as light in weight in my opinion since it doesn't break as often. I used aluminum arrows before and it broke a lot more often than I liked.