[SuperX]

Charly Rei.., on May 20 2009, 11:10 PM, said:

Hi to everybody,

FITA Field Archery is one f the most challenging styles to shoot.
Especially in Europe / Austria, the high Mountains grant for a lot of steep uphill and downhill hoots.
I love it to play this game.
About the unmarked round: many Fieldshooters discuss this but if the unmarked round will be canceled we all would miss something....
The Problem on the unmarked round is - if there are two shooters wich have the same skill in shooting - the better onewill be the shooter with the best measuring system.
So you allways have to look that your system is well working to hit the 6 or 5 with your first shoot.

Many Archers have sometime problems with the 80 and 60cm facees. In some tricky cases there could be that you mistaken the 80 with the 60cm face or vice versa.
This could produce high or low zeros ( a miss).
A great tip to prevent this is to look at the butt numbering system - there allways must be square shaped signs with target numbers ( Target 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8...........22,23,24) and these signs must have the same measurement.
If you have checked this out - the size of the sign in proportion to the yellow of the 80 and 60 faces you never would mistaken again.

I hope this hint is useful........

Best greatings from Austria to all Archers around.

Charly

Great Tip Charly! Thanks - I will do that as I am one of those guilty of mistaking the 80cm for the 60cm at least once during a shoot.

[andy1996]

If you ask me, the unmarked portion of the event is the funnest part! It causes me to think about the distance and forget about my shot and I seem to shoot better when I am concentrating on getting the target gauged correctly, as for the bubble thing for gauging, I am going to remember that and try it! I just used my scope, but the bubble trick seems a little more fool proof!

[phil knall]

andy1996, on May 29 2009, 04:33 AM, said:

I seem to shoot better when I am concentrating on getting the target gauged correctly...

Checking out FITA field scores, I noticed a tendency for the unmarked scores to actually be higher than the marked ones. I wonder if what you said here has something to do with that.

[SuperX]

phil knall, on 03 June 2009 - 08:30 PM, said:

Checking out FITA field scores, I noticed a tendency for the unmarked scores to actually be higher than the marked ones. I wonder if what you said here has something to do with that.

In my opinion, the reason is two fold, the gauging systems are very good so distance is not really unknown even if it is unmarked, and secondly the targets are closer.