Hi everybody!

Since the last post, I shot a marked round at the Red Kite Spring Shoot, hosted by Red Kite Archers in Llanwrdda. This was my first full round since making the changes to my form as the last shoot was chopped to a short course due to the appalling weather conditions. I drove down to the shoot with my shooting comrade Chris, and we were both looking forward to a nice day's shooting. The weather was on our side for a change, cloudy with some sunny spells so the shorts stayed on! But most importantly, the wind was fairly light.

It was a really challenging course, I've shot on harder but I would put it down as 4/5 on difficulty with some very tricky shots due to steep angles and harsh lighting conditions. I had a fairly moderate first half, but improved in the second half to finish on 314. My previous FITA personal best was 297 and that was on a Mixed round which is easier, the Marked round is a harder shoot so I was pleased with raising the bar by 17 points on the more difficult round.

This score is also 2 points into FITA Field First Class so I have achieved that level now. This was also a personal victory, as it was my first field shoot with all 72 arrows as scoring hits! Something always comes up like a miss on a bunny, or aiming at the wrong target on a 4-face etc but I kept my head in the game and pulled it off. So we have a new PB, 1st ever First Class score and first round with no misses.

All-told, a productive day! :)