5. The next twelve months in a nutshell

So you know, this won't be a barrage of stuff day after day.

After the following post, it will be a weekly touch base post to keep myself on track and accountable and give anyone who may be interested something to do for three minutes and please feel free to comment if you feel the need, either at a shoot, the club events or right here.

The Range.


I have just over three acres outside of Colac, the lot is 60m wide by 200m long, it was a paddock when we bought it so over time we have started planting trees etc, the back half of the lot has been fenced and we are currently babysitting 49 sheep to assist in what was armpit high grass. 

We have 8 chooks in the little hutch you can see centre, they free range all day and are locked away at night due to foxes. We had this guy show up yesterday on his way through to the dam next door in the heat, first snake we have seen since being here, i don't know much about snakes but it looks like a Brown and was just over a metre in length.

The green shed down the back past the B-Ball ring is the back of the block and the far end of the shed is the half way mark of the property, so I am lucky to have plenty of room to shoot.

In the shed I have two butts, the club has a deal with the local Bunnings. They compress all of their plastic waste, wrap etc into almost wool pack sized cubes and let us have them to avoid paying for disposal. We use them primarily as top butts on the group 4 and 5 targets or similar as they are lighter and easier to handle. 



The messy shed that started this ball rolling.

Moving on. 

I plan to practice most days, multiple distances at either set and/or walk back and walk in from Group 1 to Group 5 distances. Getting reacquainted with my gaps and spending more time on judging distances. 

I don't plan on 200 arrows a day, egg white omelettes and taking up hot naked yoga to get an edge, but I will keep an arrow shot tally, and arrow lost/broken tally, club indoor and outdoor shoot scores and of course all the H Branch results for myself and how I go against the guys I am competing against.

Just on that, there are some talented shooters in there that I respect and know I have to improve a LOT to even rattle let alone consistently challenge, no names will be posted here, those guys along with the clubs we shoot with already know who they are.

Getting to that standard consistently is one of the main goals of this exercise.







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