Oh boy!

Oh boy it has been a while, I have only managed to shoot about 6 times this year and it shows. I finally got back to the club last Wednesday and I took along an old pair of winstar wood/carbon limbs that I have not used since I got my revolution, the idea was to use them just to get my form back as they are only 26lbs I can pretty much hold at full draw while I work out where everything is and really take my time over the draw, settle down and then release. Well it was a good job I took them as when after about six dozen I put my Tomcats back on and even though they are not madly heavy at 34lbs I could only shoot about a dozen and then had to stop (boy how quickly you lose condition), and I used to shoot an Albion and hardly feel it.
So it is back to the light limbs and  I must say I have enjoyed the last couple of times that I have got to the club. Even in just two sessions I can feel the rust falling away as the old habits come back, the only thing that I have really had to work on is keeping my elbow down.
So the plan now is to shoot these limbs over the autumn and winter and do a bit of training at home (yes I had stopped that as well ....bad Tony bad Tony!) and then early next year get the Tomcats back on and up to speed for the outdoor season.

So we'll see how that goes best laid plans and all that.   

I'm back.......

Hello all.

First sorry there has been so little going on here for the last couple of months but hey, life sometimes gets in the way.

Soooo... whats on for today, well I managed to get up to the club for a spot of shooting on Wednesday and wow what a day, after so much gloomy weather a nice sunny day with a gentle breeze was fab!
My shooting has deteriorated since I last shot and I was not back up to scratch on last year then, so I now have a lot of work to do if I am going to keep my new years resolution and improve my shooting with a view to getting my first class.  

First sorry that I have not updated for a while but as I have said things at home have been a bit up in the air.

Finally got back up to the club on Wednesday to say hi to some people, but did not shoot just wanted to see if I could make the round trip on my bike. I haven't missed much as the weather has been so awful since I was last up there. I am going to try to get up there again on Sunday if the weather holds and see how much my form has suffered.

Sorry things are a bit quiet here atm, I have been a bit unwell and unable to shoot and now we have had a Death in the family. But watch this space and I will be posting some more soon. 

Still not shooting that annoying cough turns out to be whooping cough (who knew adults got it too) and you cannot shoot if you keep coughing. So I am doing some training at home with the bands and waiting to get back to the club.

Ok here we are again and although I have not shot for a few days as the result of a filthy cough that I have picked up somewhere I have made a bit of progress on the clicker front.

As I said in my last post I have fitted a clicker to my Revolution in an attempt to keep my draw constent but I found it a bit weired shooting with it and although it incressed my consitency I was not really havppy with it well...

It turns out that I don't need to shoot with it all the time just now and then the re-check my draw, I have found that if I do this my draw stays much more constant than before and I am getting good results again. Then I was talking to one of the members at my club (who knows a bit about these things) and he told me that as far as he knew the clicker was originaly only intened as a traind aid to be used the way I am using mine. Interesting........

So that is what I will keep doing and I will keep you up to date oh and the next post will be about the arrows I think. 

Ha! Just got my first proper comment and it is just the type of thing I have been looking for:

This comment was posted by Anonymous

Hi there, 
I just found your blog. I once shot a revolution, but then I sold it and bought a Hoyt Nexus. That is, because (now I don´t want to frighten you) I know 2 guys who had the same riser, and theirs broke. The crack was located at the first long hole above the grip at the outer plate.

Before that, the screws which connect the rubber pieces and the three aluminium plates, cracked too and we replaced them with stronger ones.

Have you ever heard of problems like that?

Greetings from Germany


If you read the first post on this blog you will get some info and early problems with the Revolution. I will  try to get some more information as to when these risers were bought and if they were fiddled with.