Cold Bow 2025.... QnA Thread

Robby, is it ok to shoot your 3 recurve shots in 3 days then 3 compound on a different three days? Neighbor is working on fence along my long range, won’t be able to shoot compound until Tuesday but have the distance for recurve now.
 
Robby, is it ok to shoot your 3 recurve shots in 3 days then 3 compound on a different three days? Neighbor is working on fence along my long range, won’t be able to shoot compound until Tuesday but have the distance for recurve now.
I'm going to go ahead and say yes with the expectation that you'll finish those three compound shots before the other 99 shooters finish and the challenge ends. Please add the notation into your offical challenge post.
 
Robby, is it ok to shoot your 3 recurve shots in 3 days then 3 compound on a different three days? Neighbor is working on fence along my long range, won’t be able to shoot compound until Tuesday but have the distance for recurve now.
Yes, you can shoot them on different days or the same day. Whatever works.
 
Love the contest, thanks to all who help out with it and . As someone who had TP with a wrist release I can say shooting a hinge more in the offseason, 100% helps haha I recommend everyone get one and focus on form!


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Might be done by next Saturday. The prizes definitely upped the entries this year.
 
Can always shoot from inside.....
With wind messing with my shot standing in the yard I should have stood on my deck out of wind. I wanted into be like in the field but in truth I maybe should have planned better. Post #72 for reference
 
@robby denning am I understanding it correctly in that there's no limit on number of people that participate that will go in the prize drawing, but they have to finish within a few days of the 100th person finishing?
 
With wind messing with my shot standing in the yard I should have stood on my deck out of wind. I wanted into be like in the field but in truth I maybe should have planned better. Post #72 for reference

Point is to make it real world, that's kinda been a topic before, guys not shooting because it's raining, etc.

If you would be hunting, you are testing your limits, wind is very much a factor in a lot of western hunting scenarios.

It's not a contest to make sure you hit them all, it's to expose what you are actually capable of in hunting conditions.
 
There's also a bit of logic that goes into it. Not every day, every stand, every set up, every animal lens itself to a mer shot. That can only happen when things all line up good enough.

A guy got flamed hard a couple years ago for tweaking his mer on different days, but in the field that's exactly what I do. Certain conditions, like looking into the sun, being out of breath, strong breezes, super steep angles, very alert animals, etc all noticeably decrease my ability to hit behind the pin. It'd be foolish for me to think that because I've made the shot in practice under perfect conditions I'm automatically good to that range with any and every compounding variable stacked against me. The point of the challenge was to show what just one of those variables, a loss of shooting reps, does to your ability to make lethal hits.
 
In the real world, I suspect this arrow would be guts and a popped diagphram. How long that track job would take, I do not know. Beat the dreaded TP, but I think I was aiming more at the edge of the insert than low center of the viable window. Moral of the story? Quartering away is a small target on deer.
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Point is to make it real world, that's kinda been a topic before, guys not shooting because it's raining, etc.

If you would be hunting, you are testing your limits, wind is very much a factor in a lot of western hunting scenarios.

It's not a contest to make sure you hit them all, it's to expose what you are actually capable of in hunting conditions.
Wind is my biggest factor hunting the plains of SD. Good for stalking but bad for shooting, ha. In my scenario yesterday I would not have taken the shot and gotten closer due to wind if hunting. But since our MER does not change for this challenge I had to shoot it. It was a good reminder that I still am not capable of longer shots in wind
 
There's also a bit of logic that goes into it. Not every day, every stand, every set up, every animal lens itself to a mer shot. That can only happen when things all line up good enough.

A guy got flamed hard a couple years ago for tweaking his mer on different days, but in the field that's exactly what I do. Certain conditions, like looking into the sun, being out of breath, strong breezes, super steep angles, very alert animals, etc all noticeably decrease my ability to hit behind the pin. It'd be foolish for me to think that because I've made the shot in practice under perfect conditions I'm automatically good to that range with any and every compounding variable stacked against me. The point of the challenge was to show what just one of those variables, a loss of shooting reps, does to your ability to make lethal hits.
I actually like the idea of changing MER based on conditions but I understand why mods might not let that happen. Mine would have changed for me yesterday based on environmental factors (wind)
 
Great shooting man, I saw your video. So far you’re the only 100 yard MER in the vitals with the video to prove it. Good luck on your next two.
Thanks! I watched your video as well. I’m going to try to set up two cameras today if I can slip away for a few minutes. One on the spotter and one filming the actual shot
 
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