August 2010 Newsletter - Cherry Valley Bowhunters

VOL: 2010
HUNTING NEWS:
ISSUE August 2010
Jack Smith was off hunting In Nevada while we were at Big Bear. He did help out at Big
Bear before he left.. Here is his success:
Please note that successes cannot be posted in this newsletter unless someone reports
CLUB CALENDAR:
EVENT
Fall Turkey Shoot
PLACE
The home range
DATE(S)
November, to be
announced
TIME
9:00 a.m.
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MEETINGS ARE THE FIRST TUESDAY OF EACH MONTH EXCEPT
SEPTEMBER AND JANUARY! Meetings are being well attended. Members need to get to meetings,
meet and greet other members and find out what each of us can do to support the club.
UPCOMING SHOOTS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA:
EVENT
PLACE
DATE(S)
Sir Gordan’s Trad.
San Diego Archers
8/29/2010
Shoot
STATE 900,
Oranco Bowmen
9/11 and 9/12
preregistration
required for 24
shooters each day.
Antelope and Deer
Riverside Archers
9/19/2010
shoot, 42 unmarked.
Harvest 28 marked 3- Mojave Archers
9/26/2010
D’s
Fun in the Sun
Conejo Valley Archers
10/3/2010
Muley Crazy, 42
Riverside Archers
10/3/2010
unmarked 3-D’s
Tomahawk, 2 arrow,
Oranco Bowmen
10/10/2010
42 unmarked 3-D’s
Traditional Shoot, 42
Bear State Archers, at
10/10/2010
3-D’s
Lake Henshaw
Boo’s Eye Novelty
Mojave Archers
10/16/2010
Shoot
Iron Man, unmarked
San Diego Archers
10/24/2010
animal/hunter/field
75th Anniversary &
Pasadena Roving
10/23 & 24/2010
Traditional Shoot
Archers
TIME
Assumed 9:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m. start
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Because published calendars are not all that detailed as far as times and locations, you may need to go to other sources for details. Most shoots start at 9:00 a.m.
MEMBER’S ACTIVITIES:
A now ex-member, Fred Smith, scored at the May Tilapia Shoot. He took a seven pounder
that established a State record.
The Big Bear Shoot, 25th, has come and gone. We will learn how we did at the October
meeting. The weather was just about perfect and we had something more than 260 shooters.
The running pig, swinging target and William Tell attracted lots of people. Here are a few
images of the weekend:
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This was worth twenty points if you hit in the hole in the steel plate, and zero plus a destroyed arrow if you
did not. The nasty one here is when you hit the edge of the hole, ruin an arrow but still get twenty points.
This below didn’t gain any points or raffle tickets, but it is worth a bunch of either.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST:
We have a website: www.cherryvalleybowhunters.wikispaces.com Check it out and pass it on!
ONE ARCHER’S OPINION:
BACK TENSION?
What the heck is back tension? Well, it may be the key to your success as an archer.
It is not restricted to what type of bow you shoot - longbow, recurve or compound. What
back tension is all about is simply, when you reach your moment of release, your upper
back muscles are the primary tension muscles resisting the drawn bow.
There are number of coaching techniques that prescribe steps through taking a stance and on
to follow-through. All of them include some kind of transition to move the tension from
arms and shoulders into the back, including keeping shoulders low and level with the arrow
plane.
There is a push-pull aspect in the performance of every good archer. The push does not
necessarily require additional forward movement of the bow. It is just a “feel” that is part
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of shooting. Push is part of the back tension thing but has the added benefit of helping to
hold the bow steady. Pull may entail a slight extension of your draw but is, most
importantly, how you assure that your release is straight back, rather than having your string
hand drop or flip to the side.
Try this when you practice. Regardless of the steps you go through as you take a stance,
position your bow, make your draw, and find your sight picture – take a deep breath as you
come to full draw. As you get to the point of release, force out that breath by lowering your
shoulders and pulling your shoulder blades together, thus increasing the push-pull to the
moment of release. This will both settle you into your stance (solid foundation) and
intensify that push-pull.
That push part is important! This is not a rifle you are shooting. Your “muzzle” is your
bow and bow hand. The main way to keep on target is to keep steady at the muzzle end.
You don’t have to move the bow farther towards the target but you should have the feeling
of pushing it when you release the string. You should also keep that bow hand steady until
the arrow reaches the target.
Y’all need to shoot!
That is not an opinion, that is a fact!
NOTE: Send to me what you want said, in some written form (e-mail, mail, hand written or whatever)
and I will use your opinion (s). Send to 10961-324 Desert Lawn Drive, Calimesa, CA 92320-2213 or call
me at (909)795-5505 or e-mail to cherryvalley@dslextreme.com
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