Archery is a great sport and something I love to do. I am going to describe my cycle of shooting. First, I take my bow in my left hand and go to the line. I look up at my target and take a deep breath to lower my heart rate. I step up to the line and turn my back pivot foot to the right, in order to face the target slightly. I rest the bottom cam of my bow against my left leg and bend my leg slightly with my toes on the ground in order to hold it up. I place the arrow through the riser and nock it while setting it on the lizard tongue. I then grab my release out of my quiver and place it on the d loop. I make sure that my fingers are placed correctly on the release and take a deep breath and take another look at my target. I draw another deep breath as I lift my bow and slowly draw in order to keep the arrow in place. When drawn, I breathe in as I set my knuckles against my cheekbone and my nose and corner of my lip against the string. I slowly lower my pin to the bullseye, and make sure that my level is on, then grab the release with my back three fingers to get set for the shot. I then slowly exhale while thinking about pulling tight against my release. I steady in for five to seven seconds and my release goes off. I drop my elbow back and let my bow go forward slightly to stretch out for the follow through. I reset my release and rest my bow on my leg again and check to see where the arrow hit on the target. I then work through my mind any mistakes that I made during the shot cycle.

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I wonder where we would be at today without the Roman Empire. They conquered the known world at that time, established a language that is the root of almost all languages of today, and brought new philosophy and science that started theories and the way we think today. I wonder what the world would be like if we all spoke one language. How much could we work together to further human livelihood. The Asians and their skills with technology, the Germans and their talents on engineering, the Americans and their leadership and power, the Europeans and their livelihood with social, style, and literature. Imagine if all of these worked together and were able to communicate with each other easily. Where would our world be today? Would it even be different? Hhhmmm

Over the last few years, our family has traveled a lot for shooting in competitions. Most of the time it has been for archery, but also a little bit for rifle and pistol. It started in 2013 when I made the .22 rifle team as a freshman in high school. That summer we traveled to Grand Island, Nebraska to shoot three events over five days. I had a blast and shot in the top five a couple of times. The next year I shot on the .22 pistol team and competed at the same place with three similar events, only with a pistol. This last year, our whole family got into archery pretty hard. Our first big trip was to Des Moines, Iowa, and it was a big tournament. I got to meet some of the top shooters in the world and compete alongside them. I didn't do that well at the shoot, but had a lot of fun. The next shoot was in Kansas City, Missouri, of which I ended up taking first place. My scores started improving, and it was addicting. In March, we went to Louisville, Kentucky for the all time national shoot, where there was almost two thousand shooters. I ended up getting eighth in the nation, and it is the biggest shoot I have ever been to. This season we went back to the Kansas City shoot, and it was the first time I ever had to shoot in the adult class ever. I took second and got to have my first experience in a shoot-off. We are now planning on going to a big shoot in Illinois, back to the shoot in Des Moines, and possibly to the Vegas Shoot, which is the biggest shoot in the world held in Las Vegas. They are a lot of fun and I hope our whole family can do well in the near future.

Archery Technology

Your bow; your bow for target shooting should be long axle to axle length and have a lot of brace height for the best forgiveness on your shooting. A shoot through riser is a popular technology in order to get perfect center shot by actually shooting through the riser itself. The new Bowtech Fanatic is one of the leading technologies with  a shoot through riser, a dual cam system with yokes for the cables on both ends in order to achieve cam lean on both end equally and tune to the center shot on your bow. It also has the flex guard in order to allow your cables in when drawn, and pull them out of the way as the arrow goes by in order to get the best performance and accuracy. The Fanatic has the center pivot design on the split limbs for a smooth, accurate, and performance based feel. Bowtech also came out with micro adjustable draw stops for different amounts of let off and two pegs against the cable for the most solid backwall ever. The Fanatic is truly the best bow and target technology of the day! Shoot Bowtech!

In 2014 I made the small bore rifle team in 4-H to go to nationals on a team of four. The national shoot was in Grand Island Nebraska, and was five days. It was a lot of fun! We shot three different events; slow fire, camp perry, and silhouettes. The slow fire was four rounds of ten shots at 25 yards. I got third in that event with a one point split between each place from first to third. The second one is camp perry, which consists of ten shots slow fire, fifteen shots timed fire, and fifteen shot rapid fire. I also got third in that event. The last event was silhouettes, which is metal targets in the shape of a chicken, pig, turkey, and ram. They are shot in sets of ten from forty yards back to 110 yards, all with a .22 caliber pistol. It was a great experience and I am going back this year for archery.

 Archery is a great sport and something I love to do. I am going to describe my cycle of shooting. First, I take my bow in my left hand and go to the line. I look up at my target and take a deep breath to lower my heart rate. I step up to the line and turn my back pivot foot to the right, in order to face the target slightly. I rest the bottom cam of my bow against my left leg and bend my leg slightly with my toes on the ground in order to hold it up. I place the arrow through the riser and nock it while setting it on the lizard tongue. I then grab my release out of my quiver and place it on the d loop. I make sure that my fingers are placed correctly on the release and take a deep breath and take another look at my target. I draw another deep breath as I lift my bow and slowly draw in order to keep the arrow in place. When drawn, I breathe in as I set my knuckles against my cheekbone and my nose and corner of my lip against the string. I slowly lower my pin to the bullseye, and make sure that my level is on, then grab the release with my back three fingers to get set for the shot. I then slowly exhale while thinking about pulling tight against my release. I steady in for five to seven seconds and my release goes off. I drop my elbow back and let my bow go forward slightly to stretch out for the follow through. I reset my release and rest my bow on my leg again and check to see where the arrow hit on the target. I then work through my mind any mistakes that I made during the shot cycle.

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 Once we got the second opinion on my arm, we went to this orthopedic specialist in St. Louis Missouri. His name is Dr. Goldfarb, and he as an outstanding doctor. He determined what needed to be done and scheduled a surgery for the end of that week. I went in for surgery and they did the operation. They removed the extra bone and used a bone graft from my hip to put in and help the ulna heal. They put in four pins to hold it in place and the pins went right through a growth plate in my arm. After several weeks with a splint, they took the pins out and took some x-rays. They had some bad news when they came back into the office. The bone had not healed back even with the graft in place. They scheduled another surgery at the end of that week again. This time they took another graft from the hip, but put in some new technology of bone grower in with it. They fastened it with a plate and nine screws along the ulna bone. This time, it worked. They took the splint off, and we started some therapy several times a day. For a year, everyday, we did therapy several times, and could not get all of the range of motion back. When we went for another check up, Dr. Goldfarb recommended another surgery to try and get the range of motion back. He did the surgery and removed the plate and screws, (which they let me keep), and I was back out that day. Soon after we started the therapy again, and this time, we got a lot better results. Now I am able to do everything with my arm. Shooting my bow is important to me, and I can still do that great. I am able to touch my shoulder and get it almost all of the way straight. I am so thankful for what Dr. Goldfarb did for me.