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Re: Banned Black Nocks?
« Reply #15 on: August 08, 2011, 08:40:03 AM »
I have a scenario for you ninja shooters.. LOL

It is target 32 of a 40 target course and have a mulligan, you are still clean and with only 8 target to go there is a legitimate chance at cleaning this course ( a feat not many accomplish)
Target 32 is a 36 yard rising boar in the shade. You guessed it at 33 and saw your arrow impacted slightly low. You think it is in the ten ring but might be on the outside of the line.. you want to take your mulligan but heard rumors of a really steep long shot towards the end of the course...
Do you use your mulligan or risk walking up and finding out its an 8?
OH IF ONLY I COULD SEE WHERE MY ARROWS WAS!!!
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Re: Banned Black Nocks?
« Reply #16 on: August 08, 2011, 08:45:31 AM »
i would pull up my binos and look at it! :chuckle:
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Re: Banned Black Nocks?
« Reply #17 on: August 08, 2011, 08:51:37 AM »
i would pull up my binos and look at it! :chuckle:

And what do you see?
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Re: Banned Black Nocks?
« Reply #18 on: August 08, 2011, 09:25:06 AM »
Mulligans are for sissy's...... LOL 
"Don't argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."

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Re: Banned Black Nocks?
« Reply #19 on: August 08, 2011, 09:28:27 AM »
i would pull up my binos and look at it! :chuckle:

And what do you see?
cutting the bottom of the 10 ring. thank god for linejammers! :tup: :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Re: Banned Black Nocks?
« Reply #20 on: August 08, 2011, 09:39:06 AM »
Seeing the end of your arrow at an angled shot (i.e. rising shot) won't help you in determining a line licker or very close to.  You need to see the shaft.  I've had a few shots with my all orange vanes where I glassed the target post shot and thought for sure I was just in or cut the line.  Got up to the target and I was out an inch or two.  The converse has also been true.

I would also assert that I've inadvertently help out my competition many times by shooting first or second and providing them a wonderfully bright reference point.  Haha, use the orange arrow and I'm a great guy, use the ninja and I'm an a-hole (all in jest, of course).  And I've taken advantage of the same thing, "the X is 1" right of Bob's arrow.  Thanks Bob! hehe."

My only concern about using ninja arrows if you miss the target.  Good luck finding that.  Especially, if the target is in or backed by thick, nasty brush.  :bash:

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Re: Banned Black Nocks?
« Reply #21 on: August 08, 2011, 09:41:17 AM »
Mulligans are for sissy's...... LOL

Yeah, I rather agree, though I'm guilty of buying them.  Especially, if I'm going into a shoot with low confidence.  I kinda wished they weren't offered ....well, kinda.   ;)

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Re: Banned Black Nocks?
« Reply #22 on: August 08, 2011, 09:46:26 AM »
Mulligans are for sissy's...... LOL

Yeah, I rather agree, though I'm guilty of buying them.  Especially, if I'm going into a shoot with low confidence.  I kinda wished they weren't offered ....well, kinda.   ;)

Most clubs, (including mine) offer them as another way to raise money for the clubs... so I buy them also... somedays I wish I could buy a couple of extra!   :bash:
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Re: Banned Black Nocks?
« Reply #23 on: August 08, 2011, 10:10:32 AM »
I agree on the mulligans, but if they offer them and you are wanting to compete you better get them..

This is my issue with the black nocks.. They will NEVER help you gain 1 point, they are simply to try and slow down other shooters in your group.
I like to win by opening a can with my shooting... Not by opening a can on everyone elses shooting ;-)
Besides if you do want to mess your buddies up just do it mentally, it is MUCH more effective  :chuckle:
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Re: Banned Black Nocks?
« Reply #24 on: August 28, 2011, 06:38:27 PM »
I just wanted to let everyone know, I received my “ninja” black nocks and Blazer vanes.

Over forty years I have been shooting the brightest color schemes I could come up with. First, those colors were an effort to find the strays in the weeds. Then, I reasoned they were to better see my target impacts.

An unintended consequence of choosing black (I got tired of scrubbing them clean) is I can’t see the things at all once they have left the bow! I don’t know about anyone else but quite often I have to struggle against the impulse to watch where the arrow is going before it hits the target. This promotes the NASTY habit of allowing the bow arm to drop.

Now, since I can’t see them until I walk up on the target or look through magnification, there is no temptation to try and follow the flight.
Imagine that!
“The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter can not be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.”

Col. Jeff Cooper

 


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