One of my shelves for the basement is 16" wide. 
puke: - sorry, I don't like red oak). I could probably special order Pecan, but I like being able to cherry pick the best pieces too. 
Yeah, that shocked me. 
Well, as suspected, no QGT today, but that's ok.
Took my son to get a haircut, then we headed to the Y. Lots of eye candy there today so that made it easier.
After working out at the Y we headed to the archery range. I brought 3 of the team bows with me to dial in the nock locations for a light draw, medium draw, and heavy draw weight bow. I used those to set up the other bows I had brought home.
National Archery in Schools Program, or NASP, utilizes fixed equipment with pretty strict rules. The Bow is a Matthews Genesis bow. It's a constant draw weight compound bow that can be adjusted between 10 to 20 pounds draw weight and the draw length can be up to 35" IIRC. I know I don't fully draw the bow when I get to my anchor point. The arrows are fixed, you can only use NASP approved Easton aluminum arrows. You are not allowed to use sights, releases, or draw stops. NASP focuses on technique so the rules keeps the field of competition as level as possible. BUT, there are some tweaks you can legally do to the bows to make them shoot more consistently, and that's what I try to do. I dial in the bows as much as I can within the rules which is really just finding the sweet spots for the draw poundage in the ranges and the nock locations. Last year we discovered that as little as 40 thousands difference in the limb gaps can make a huge difference in arrow flight consistency depending on the bow.
There are elementary school (grades 4 & 5), middle school (grades 6-8), and high school teams. All the archers shoot the same 10M and 15M distances at the same standard size target. My son would consistently beat high school kids as a 5th grader at tournaments, but that was also his fourth year shooting; never the less, he loved beating high school boys. Younger grade school kids can shoot up and elementary kids can shoot with a middle school team. My son started in 2nd grade and I was trained as a coach then. He didn't shoot tournaments until 3rd grade and even then, we only shot 4 or 5 the entire season. In fourth and fifth grade we shot as many tournaments with the team as we could, including state and the nationals in Louisville, KY. Our team qualified for the Worlds, but we personally skipped it. Nationals is actually a bigger tournament that Worlds.
Coaching archery is just one of those things that came naturally to me. It's very easy for me to see what shooters are doing wrong and help them correct it. I can generally add 30-40 points to a shooters score in 4 weeks working one-on-one with them at two practices a week. A perfect score is like bowling, 300. Last year I got 3 archers into the low 290s from the 260s & 270s. Once your in the 290s, it's very hard to get those last few points because it becomes emotional and psychological. A lot of archers choke after shooting 4 tens and then shoot an eight or nine for their last arrow. I do the same damn thing... The last arrow when you have 4 tens becomes the worst arrow you will ever shoot, especially in a tournament. Our middle school team placed in the Top 5 at State in Bullseye the last two years and Top 2 at State in 3D the last two years.
Even though I'm no longer coaching for my son's previous school, I've had 7 archers and their parents (3 of which are coaches themselves) ask if I would continue to coach their kids outside of their scheduled school practices. All 7 kids listen to me and are great kids so I've agreed to keep coaching them when they need help. One girl is a senior in high school this year and both her parents are coaches, but she only improves when I coach her. She doesn't like her other HS coaches and won't listen to them, but they also ride way to hard. Another girl is a 7th grader and her dad works for a company that is one of my customers, but I didn't find that out until later. She and my son shoot really well together. My son actually shoot his best when he shoots with her so it's easy for me to coach the two of them together.
The funniest thing about it though is that my son didn't listen to my coaching until last year. He would really only listen to one other coach so I usually just told her what my son needed to change and she would tell him. And funny enough, her daughter would only listen to me and none of the other coaches including her mom. Then my wife kind of laid into my son about not listening to me when all the other kids I coach do so well and he wasn't shooting very well. He started to listen and actually asked for coaching after that. He improved his average score by almost 40 points last year and won a Top 5 medal for elementary boys in almost every tournament. Now we go and shoot at least every other weekend even during the summer when there is no archery. Once the tournaments start, we'll be shooting at least 3 times a week because now that he's in middle school, it will be harder for him to medal at tournaments unless he puts in the practice time.
Tonight at the range, I was on fire! My worst arrow was an 8 and my worst round was a 47 out of 50. So my son had to focus and step up his game. His worst round was a 45, but neither of us shot a round of 50.
This evening I set up the school's team bows that I brought home:
Only took about an hour and ten minutes so this Thursday I'll probably bring more than 8 bows home.
A facade is a fake front. A facet is one side of a many sided object, or in my case one of my passions. I think you meant facet and not facade.
Just giving you a hard time, I know English is not your native language and I knew what you meant.
But yes, coaching archery is one of my passions. I also coached high school girls lacrosse for two years, but I stepped down this year since my daughter graduated high school and is now off to college. The parents asked me to keep coaching the girls, but I just do not have the time to commit to the girls team. I've helped coach or been the head coach of every team my son or daughter has been on for the last 12 years or so. The last 6 years were definitely my most active years with soccer, basketball, baseball, archery, and lacrosse. My son will be playing boys U12 lacrosse this spring so I will be an assistant coach for his team. I know the coach and he's excited to have me help out since U12 and U14 boys lacrosse is no contact like girls lacrosse. Girls lacrosse has a lot more finesse and skill to it since there is no contact.
I've never been a just drop off the kid, pick up the kid parent. I have no issues with parents that are, but it's not me. If my kids are involved in a team or extracurricular activity and they need help, I help.
I try to hunt when I can. I usually only get out in December for deer, it's just the way my schedule tends to work out. I'm a huge proponent of hunter's rights, habitat conservation, and environmental protection. Healthy woods and healthy rivers means healthy game populations and therefore healthy humans. I belong to the National Wild Turkey Federation and Pheasants Forever. I'm a committee member for our local Turkey Federation chapter, but just a member of PF... that time thing again...
I have a nice recurve hunting bow but I don't hunt with it yet. I'm not 100% confident in my shot hitting exactly where it needs to in order to humanely put down a deer so I don't use it. I practice and will keep practicing so that I am 100% confident. Taking that first deer with my recurve is something that I am looking forward to doing.
that’s the best way to improve. In my defense though I can blame the autocorrect this one time. As I have three active keyboards in my phone and the new iOS autocorrects regardless of which is selected, it never learns the most used expressions from neither and keeps switching my words between different languages. Facade is a front in Portuguese as well, but not a fake one, just a regular front in general.Don’t worry at all. Do give me the hard time
Coming back to hunting, then you are probably into cooking and meat as well right? I just saw in the other thread a guy that has his own meat room
Jokes aside as we’re mostly livestock producers here, everybody is obsessed with a perfect barbecue. Cutting, roasting, cattle race, seasoning is another rabbit hole of mine. Hunting with a bow, though? That’s crazy! Something I’d need years and years of practice to master
Awesome hobbies buddy!
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So I scored a helluva deal from the local Wusthof distributor on them. We've had them for 19 years and counting. So yes, I cook. We often host Thanksgiving and/or Christmas dinner. I used to have a small Char-Griller smoker that I extensively modified (but they are made out of thin sheet metal so it rusted out pretty quickly)... I used to go to Tulsa, OK on business about every 3 weeks and I was active on The Smoke Ring forum. My friends in Tulsa were all competitive BBQ guys and/or pros. I need to buy a stainless steel Hasty-Bake grill to replace my smoker and when we move, I will be building a large outdoor kitchen complete with a large grill, multi-section smoker, and wood fired oven. Already been down that rabbit hole! Popped back up to find a new hole. That's hilarious!
I was a Sous chef at a country club in college. I own a set of white handled Wusthof Classic knives. Daytons department stores out of Minneapolis thought they would be a great wedding gift so they had them specially produced for their flagship stores.
My hunting mentor butchers his own deer and it is a skill I want to learn, but we have goose egged the last 3 years so I haven't learned how to butcher my kills yet. I also have a dozen books on cooking wild game and 2 on butchering meat. Yes, I caught the post in Gregor's thread about the guy's butcher room. I may be adding that to my future requirements of the next house. [emoji106]
Right now I'm spoiled. I have a meat share in a local producer. They are a family owned farm and many times I go out to their house to pick up the share.
We get 12-15 pounds of meat a month for $85. Several times a year I get a share and a half, especially in November, December, and January. They raise heritage breed beef, lamb, goats, and hogs. NO grain ever, no antibiotics, no steroids, no growth hormone. The animals are on the pasture the entire time. The only thing they add is supplemental flax seed out in the pasture the last 4 weeks if the animals want to eat it, they can. It raises the Omega 3, 6, and 9 levels in the meat. They also sell or give me the less common cuts of meat including oxtail, liver, and heart. I could get kidney and tongue, but I pass on those. I can't eat a lot of pork, it bothers my stomach, but I can eat the bacon so I typically get a pound of it every other month. They're lamb is incredible and I use their ground goat to give my chili a rich, hearty flavor that I just can't get from beef. I rarely eat beef in restaurants. Since having the meat share for the last 4 years or so, store bought or restaurant beef has no flavor and the fat is tough. The fat in our meat melts in your mouth... like I said, I'm spoiled.
If the beef is great, all it really needs is a little salt and pepper. When I grill a chuck roast, I only season it with salt, garlic, and a little sweet basil. It doesn't need the garlic or basil, but we like the flavor profile. Then I cook it indirect and add a little sassafras, pecan, apple, or hickory for a bit of smoke. We also cook a lot of it in the slow cooker with carrots, onions, and celery. Sometimes we toss in potatoes too.
I was diagnosed with Celiac Disease over 5 years ago. That changed what I can eat (and drink) significantly. Beer and artisanal breads are out, as well as traditional pizza crust and pastas. I used to make my own breads, chocolate chip cookies (mine were the best!), pizza crust, potato gnocchi, and empanadas. I haven't attempted to make a gluten free empanada, some day I will. I miss empanadas. I've found a decent gluten free bread kit I can cook in my bread maker and a decent GF pizza crust kit, but they aren't the same. The only thing that I like better GF is shortbread cookies. They turn out flakier and crispier without being tough. Celiac Disease has presented new challenges regarding my cooking, and overall I'm ok with it, but I do miss great breads and great pasta.
****... the ADD thing is officially a confirmed diagnosis then? I think I do slip away sometimes but it never got to the point of searching for professional help. Do you take your medicine regularly or only on a need basis?
Maybe don't go into knives now. Just to not spoil your signature some more
I am starting to wounder whether GJ is healthy to us all
Very cool! Post a link to the watch... but to quote one of my favorite lines ever in a song:
"Cool kids never have the time." - 1979 by the Smashing Pumpkins.
And as I said, I do a better job managing my sleep now too. I usually go to bed by Midnight regardless of weekday or weekend and no later than 2am on weekends. I get up around 6:15 on weekdays and I'm usually up by 9am on weekends.
Edit: Found it. It's now Nokia Health...
I had to blow leaves out of the yard, bag them, and clean out the gutters yesterday because we were supposed to get rain all day today. Since rain was the forecast, I also didn't plan to go up today... Well, it rained a bit in the morning then didn't rain the rest of the day. Of course, if I did decide to drive the 75 minutes one-way to his place, it would have poured rain all the way home and kept raining while I unloaded the trailer. Plus there is no way for me to back the trailer into the garage either. The garage is too full and my camper is blocking the turn in the driveway as well. So I would have to carry each board about 60 feet from the driveway to the garage. Oh well. 
