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I was lucky enough to have Adam Boysen stop over tonight to work on his new Bowtech bow. Adam moved his old sight to this bow to make it shootable until he chooses a permanent one. The bracket sits in a more favorable position on this bow, so he raised it up and centered the 3 pins. After a few warm up shots indoors, we moved outside and sighted at 20 yards. 3 shots and we had him hitting close, 3 more shots and he was centered. Adams large shoulders and arms were much better in the wind, my skinny frame was blown back and forth to the point that I couldn't group 3" at 20 yards! Great at 20, we backed off to 30. Adam is shooting only a couple of feet per second faster with the same arrows, so we set the pins to approximately the same gap as mine, and in no time he was again shooting very tight groups. Backing off to 40 I dropped to a better shooting position. I shoot the best while sitting, on a chair, on my feet with my knees in front, or even slightly raised in a modified kneeling position. I sent my three arrows down range and even in the wind I put them in a 2 1/2" circle. Adam kept shooting and I was amazed at how well he shot, each arrow slipping into the vitals on the block target. Shooting 40 yards with .029" pins is tough, but he kept at it and soon had arrows touching each other. We finally called it good enough, as the groups were as good as the weather would allow.
We stripped the long vanes off of his Gold Tip arrows, cleaned them and refletched them with 2" blazer vanes. I like to let the Goat Tough glue dry a few hours before shooting, so we will chronograph them again this weekend. Changing vanes dropped less weight than expected, only about 6 grains per arrow, but it should be better than the ragged old ones previously on there. Adam picked out 2 white and a bright chartruese yellow... I wasn't about to put them on a man's bow, so I talked him into 2 white and a white zebra pattern for the cock feather. The arrows look great and I am sure he will give them the "air mail" treatment tomorrow.
The night was great, I got to hang out with a friend, pimp his bow, watch him shoot better than he ever has, and feel like a part of helping him grow in the archery game... I just don't know how it could get any better!