The Dog That Caught the Car - AKA Lazy Arizona Elk Hunt

Following. I hope you can maintain your "regularity" with necessary movements and skip emergencies. Staying tuned for more "regular guy data". R
 
A word on procrastination....

When it comes to tuning your bow, don't wait.

Doing what I did flirts the line between lazy and stupid. One owes it to the animal to at least be shooting well, at whatever range you limit yourself.

Besides my progressive lenses, astigmatism, tennis elbows, lapsed form, and weakened muscles - which would otherwise explain larger than optimal grouping - I have been getting poor arrow flight and have been in denial on the need to tinker. With a week left, I had to grow up for a minute and work on the bow. I have been spending two afternoons going back to the drawing board, or in this case draw board. Cams out of sync, ATA off, centershot tweaked. Rest too high. I don't know how a year has put the bow so out of whack - stretch and getting knocked around I guess, but I likely did not have it rock solid last year either. At least the arrows flew straight then. This year I am getting little corkscrews.

Thank god I have the press, draw board, arrow saw and other supplies. THAT pre-planning has yielded dividends. I'm closing in on a better tune. I'm not going to get it remotely perfect. But "Cs get degrees."

So I am still trending a little high/right (but also two bullet holes and one high left - bad form??) even going with the rest set a little too high and out, and tophats switched. It's better but definitely not 100%. Is what is is at this point. My hunting arrows keep full-size vanes for a reason.

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Thanks for tuning in everyone. This is shaping up to be....something!

I worked and worked and worked this week to get ready. I am now paying for it. My back is either in a bad spasm or just perhaps disintegrated to pieces. I don't typically have back problems,
but for this trip, hey why not. For those of you who have help in your similar preparations, lifting heavy objects, crawling under cars and trailers, working in the garage, basement, and yard, up and down stairs 1000 times, running around from dawn until after midnight.... make sure you THANK them. For me, I have no one to thank and no one to blame for anything on this trip. I am all by my lonesome waiting for fun to make a guest appearance, but for now I have to continue to embrace the suck. Probably the suck after that, and then again a few more. But AZ awaits.

We (I) ride at dawn. Or maybe noon. I need some rest for what will probably be the last time for 2-3
weeks.
 

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