So for therapy I force myself to try and go to bed at a reasonable time, 11 -12 just like I always have. I've started to sleep again the past few nights so I make myself get up everyday. I also force myself to do something productive everyday, whether it's doing paper work that needs doing, cleaning around the house, hauling stuff to the dump etc. I also make myself do something JUST FOR ME everyday. A few days it was a trip to the driving range, yesterday golf, one day hunting with Len and his kid on youth hunt... you get the idea.

A couple days I went to Lens shop and we played with arrows. We experimented with fletchings, different nocks, point inserts, half outs etc etc. You get the idea. We spent quite a bit of time just playing and ruining things.[8D] Not really, but when you take a dozen Full Metal Jackets and modify them just to see what happens, well it is costly. Anyway, those arrows do fly great and the way we modified them would really make a heck of an arrow. They are a heck of an arrow after we finished. It took a lot of time to turn the half inserts to the right tolerances and things. No way would people be willing to pay for the time involved and you can't buy the size needed. Anyway, I guess Len will be using them. When the playing was all said and done I went back to the ICS hunters with the ACC point inserts and G nocks. The one thing I did change was I went from feathers to the 4 inch Quick Spins. It gives me another 25 grains of arrow weight(up to 450)and they fly great. I just got tire of waterproofing feathers. Some on here had said the quick spins weren't to durable. 3 of the arrows we made up the other day some guy had played with in Lens shop. He was getting terrible fletching contact with his rest and the short 4 fletch.(no problem with contact with the Muzzy) Anyway, he had really buggered the quick spins up. We heated them up with a heat gun and they were as good as new. You couldn't tell they had ever been rippled. I shot them several times through the Muzzy and they still looked like new.

While there I mentioned to Len my bow had gotten a little noisier since going to the Spot Hogg. He said he noticed I had a vibration. He got out his physicians knee smacking rubber mallet and beat my bow until he found the source. THe elevation screw on the Spot Hogg is a screw set in a nut with locktite. It had play in the screw and nut connection. It couldn't be tightened by hand. He felt it could be heated and possibly fixed. Before ruining my sight he called Spot Hogg. They said he cure might work and if it ruined the sight they'd take care of it. Go ahead and try. 5 minutes later my problem was solved.

They only other problem is these old muscles. Playing care giver for the past 12 months didn't allow much time for hunting, shooting or practicing. A few dozen arrows and I was beat. With the new arrows I had just the slightest of off tear in paper. Old eagle eye Len said you're doing this wrong, your torguing here, pushing there, snapping the trigger blah blah blah blah. OK, a quick lesson and back to basics and he had me shooting bullet holes, holding on the spot better and shooting X's everytime. Funny how you get out of sync.

SO, my preparation for the upcoming "Hunt-a-thon" across the country has begun. I figure I'll have them make me up another dozen arrows and I'll be good for 5 or 6 states. I should get 16-20 arrows from two dozen that qualify for hunter status. The rest I'll practice with. At 20 yards my skill level isn't good enough to shoot any different from my present 425 feathered ICSs.