Yeah I'm a nut. I really was committed regardless of what I saw preseason or from stand. I think that's the way you have to approach it from day one of practice, everything needs to build up to it and you con't really do it as an afterthought and probably hope to have any success.

Although the chance I got was 1 in a million I was a sprepared for it as I was ever gonna be and somehow Mars was aligned with Saturn and pulled it off.
The great thing is that it really takes the edge off for THIS season and I can go into it without any anxiety about "What if this?" and What if that?"

I will still hunt with a compound as usual in Illinois with Greg but I'm not sure the compound will see the woods again here in PA. You guys who have never done it.........I really can't describe the level of satisfaction in just SITTING there with a recurve or longbow in your hands. You feel like you accomplished something before you ever pull the string back! Take an animal with it and it almost seems like magic.

I'm already shooting the recurve again staying strong and keeping teh eye sharp. Stepped out on my patio yesterday and fired 4 arrows in a baseball sized group right in the sweet spot from 15 yards away stone cold. Pulled em' and went back in the house. I bet ya I looked like this ------>