Will do. Monday I’ll dig up the phone # of a shop in NorCal that is pretty good at finding stuff that no longer exists and see what I need to get a sight on the thing. In the meantime I may pop the stabilizer off and enter a Trad shoot with it just to hear ’em howl. Seriously, my hunting bow is NFAA tournament legal but it seems every club comes up with it’s own rules. I’ve been protested before because my bowquiver holds more than seven arrows. The El Dorado might make some heads explode.
I’m thinking that there might be logic in shooting the El Dorado on the practice bales, warming up with the 33#er that will rile some folks up, then shooting the event with my 60# Super Diablo hunting bow. Should be fun.
Long time ago, it would have been 1968 because I was on the island of Shemya at the time, I read an article in a magazine advocating shooting a bow in the 30# to 35# range for practice, then moving up to the heavy bow 2 weeks or so before you were going to be hunting. It made a certain amount of sense.
Do you happen to remember who wrote that article ??? Going from any more than 35# up to about 50# hunting weight would be a heck of a jump in poundage. If weight increases too much, other than warm-up, form could suffer.
The brain is going on 80, asking who wrote the article or even which magazine it was (Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, Sports Afield, Archery?) is out of the question! Wish it was different, but such is life as my dad used to say.
I normally shoot bows in the 50- 54lb range for regular shooting all yr round. If I draw elk I would switch to one of my 60 pounders and shoot it thru the summer. This worked well in the past. I don’t think doubling the bow weight for just 2 weeks would work for me .. too much weight jump in too short of training time…. imho…
Probably best to do what Richard is if you are strong enuff to sustain it…
