Owie!

We got up to the Nanaimo Fish and Game Club today and the archery range was open ... yay!

So, we got the field tips on our arrows and a nice gentleman told us we should put arrow was on the first couple of inches of our arrows to make them come out of the butts easier, and since we just had string was he loaned us his stick of "arrow snot" to use on our arrows.

I actually managed to both string and unstring my bow myself!  Yay!

We were shooting at the 17 metre butt, and I think we did pretty good for the first time out.  I was going to take a picture of a grouping of my shots, but I should have taken the second-to-last group of arrows I shot, as by the time I did my last set of arrows my fingers on my right hand were hurting so that I didn't get a very good grouping (that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!).

I think I'll need to get the little finger-covering things for the string hand, to make it more comfortable to draw and release.  Being able to actually pull the string back in a full draw wasn't as hard as I was expecting, either, so I guess I'm stronger than I thought!

Hopefully it will be the same sort of nice weather (gorgeous blue skies and sunny) on Wednesday when the archery club meets.  We're both off that day and plan on heading up for some more practice.