Comments on: 300 days to 300 – Day 84 update

By: Michael Larsen

Michael Larsen — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 03:48:57 +0000

John,

I won’t deny that things didn’t work out as intended (see above post for why) but I’m not giving up! As soon as the daylight is sufficient to allow me to shoot after work, I’ll be back at it with 300 part 2.

By: John

John — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 18:41:38 +0000

Congratulations, you committed to a 300 day training goal and weekly progress reports and failed at both. You cant pick up where you left off because it will extend the goal line thus making it ?days to 300.

By: Michael Larsen

Michael Larsen — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:26:45 +0000

Andre,

Thanks for asking about my progress! My day job required a bunch of out of country travel and by the time that was done it was time to hunt elk. These two things combined to stall out my quest for 300, and then daylight savings and nasty weather kicked in to make it tougher to shoot outdoors. While these things may have delayed me, the indoor season and indoor leagues are about to begin and I will be once again focusing on this project.

I would say the Equipment Corner post would be the best place to discuss equipment to keep things better organized.

By: Andre

Andre — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 20:02:35 +0000

Hi Michael

Did you ever progress further on this journey of yours? I am quite interested in your findings on technique changes and so on and would like to know how things are progressing.

Where can I ask more detailed questions about equipment issues … under your equipment post?

I look forward to hear from you.

By: Keith

Keith — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:25:00 +0000

I see by looking at your groups that after you got use to the bow that your groups were more consistent and a pattern developed of left cast arrows . I also noticed this same pattern in my shooting years ago and I was able to eliminate or reduce the size of these casts dramatically by twisting the cams left or right buss cables and tweaking the cam lean.(You will be surprised at what 1/2 of a twist in one side or the other of the buss cable will do (I shoot a Mathews Z7 now however I clued into this about four years ago when I was shooting a Mathews Switchback XT and I could get casts right or left by tweaking my cam lean. The same principle I believe applies for all bows, even two cam bows ) . The problem is bow torque ( what happens is after release the string strikes the cam grove slightly to one side or the other of the grove causing the string to oscillate, throwing/casting the arrow to one side or the other depending on which side the cam is leaning) Now I realize your 350 is a two cam bow so I’m not sure if this will make this cam tuning more difficult or not or if its a matter of just tuning one cam at a time and recording the results. I know that I’m amazed at how little of an adjustment it takes to see results. Give it a try, record your findings and you got nothing to lose you can always put it back to where you started from and no harm done!! I’m interested in your results let me know what you come up with………………. Good luck and great post!!!

By: Michael Larsen

Michael Larsen — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:15:27 +0000

Gear list: http://archeryreport.com/2010/07/300-days-300-equipment-corner/

By: Michael Larsen

Michael Larsen — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:14:11 +0000

I’ll do a write on the gear I’m using for the next update; look for it soon!

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:09:51 +0000

Curious to know your bow specs and what arrow shaft you’re shooting such as (Brand,Van length-type, offset, tip-weight …etc etc)?

By: Michael Larsen

Michael Larsen — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:40:21 +0000

It’s getting there slowly! There are always a few questionable arrows that I fling that I still need to work on. The mental game is the toughest part by far.

By: Viktor Zeman

Viktor Zeman — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:22:36 +0000

Waw, 299 is amazing result ! Sometimes I need few ends before I shoot mostly tens, so if you did it after first end, you are on the good way to 300 … maybe sooner as you expected