The Wily Shooter

Last week was the first ever potluck theme night at archery. Besides the obvious BYOF to share, it meant it was games night and there would be prizes to win.

There were 21 of us and we were divided into categories of: women’s recurve, men’s recurve and men’s compound. Each group would shoot at the same time and compete with each other. In my women’s group, there were 7 of us.

Right off the bat, during our practice run, I scored double 10s from our 18m line! (that’s 2 arrows hitting bullseye in one end) I was elated. My third arrow didn’t hit the target, but that’ll be a goal for the next time.

Double 10s close-up.

Two or doubles must have been the magic number for me that night. When the gallery supervisor brought out a deer model for us to practice 3D shooting, I shot 2 of my arrows into the target zone. My third arrow again didn’t hit the target, but rather under the deer, as seen below.

Shooting fake Bambi.

There were also teeny, tiny balloons attached around targets for us to shoot at, but at 18m away, it was a challenge. But after a couple of ends, I was the first shooter to hit one. But that was it. I never got another tiny one again.

1…2…Boom!

As you can see, there were lots of arrows shooting for these balloons, many coming close.

These balloons were taunting us all.

When we finally cleared the wall of tiny balloons, Dennis blew up some normal sized ones for us. Such a difference a few more breaths into a balloon makes. Take notice of the silver balloon below. (the one beside the blue balloon)

Balloons, I have you in my sight.

Oh, and by the way, this was actually how far where we were all shooting from:

At the 18m line, standard for indoor shooting gallery.

Remember that silver balloon? Boom! Bye bye balloon!

On fi-yah!

With practice over, we began our competition. Our 3 groups would shoot 10 ends and the shooters in each group with the highest scores would win prizes. I didn’t come in first in women’s recurve. I came in second with 80 points. First place women’s winner had scored 124.

But I won 2nd place in women’s recurve and got to choose the prize:

Nabbed myself the Wile E. Coyote.

Don’t know why, but 2 was my lucky number for the night. For the win.