Hunt Smart, Fish Hard: Labor Day Practice

Labor Day weekend brings back a lot of memories for me. In the early 80s it was planning a trip to Atlantic City or Seaside Heights. That was to get the last hooray of the season. One of the memories was Howard said I needed to get started in practicing with the new bow I just bought.

I had an old Indian compound bow. I needed to update, so to speak of. I went to Dover to the sports shop and bought a new Golden Eagle. I had to buy everything for the bow and all the accessories. That cost me a lot — $400 for the bow was high enough. The last thing I bought was the “overdraw.” This shortened the arrow’s draw length and made the arrow that much faster per feet. If you shot a 29-inch arrow and used the overdraw it would reduce the arrow’s length and make it shoot that much faster. You would cut three inches off the arrow. It would shoot that so much faster at 10 yards away you couldn’t even see the arrow hit the target. All you could do was hear the hit on the target.

Your arrow passed through a chronograph and it will tell you a lot of info. A chronograph is a type of watch that functions as both a stopwatch and a display watch and is used to measure time, speed and distance.

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