Celebrated by 36th Birthday this week and finally the weather improved. I received a new buck target and got to fling some arrows. Theres always that one arrow...

So apparently my trajectory arcs higher than I realize at 40ish yards. I don't typically know my distances at our local range, I dont often pay attention to that stuff. I just shoot if I think I can hit it. But I had to step it out after this happened. First picture shows the target from where I was shooting. You can see theres an old dead tree sticking out across the trail, higher than the target enough i thought it was far out of the way. When the first arrow hit it, I figured I messed up. Focused even more on the second arrow. I guess the first one was good after all 😆 at least my windage looked spot on. Both arrows survived fine. Doug fir hunter grade. Wicked tough shafts.

Starting to seriously wonder if we are even going to get Summer in Alberta this year. It snowed yesterday, tried again today, and we are expecting a low of -16 degrees Celsius tonight. This is unreal—we are 20 degrees below our average temp for this time of year. Anyways, I was finally able to get into the garage and do a staining and cresting run. You know just testing colours, the paint brushes, and rigged up a super hick cresting machine that works decent enough. The stain I got is more on the greyer side than I was hoping but it will do. The wine red colour I got is a little off, but after adding a bit of black I was able to achieve the proper tone. I’m interested to check them in the morning to see final colours. I forgot to take a picture to share—not that it’s picture worthy in the slightest 🤣 I’m glad I did the test because I had to trouble shoot a bit—the paint was bleeding into the grain. Learned/remembered that I should use a thin layer of my polycrylic before cresting. If anyone has any tips, anything at all, put them below. I’m all ears at this point. Oh, I did film how I “poor man” splice my feathers. I’ll get that up hopefully soon.

Any youth or youngster pics you folks have with some bow hunting shots of any kind of throw them up these are our 2 daughters a long long time ago shooting their bows together!