| Name: | Barry Cottrell |
| Nickname: | Barry C |
| E-mail: | barrycottrell@yahoo.com |
| Newsgroups: | neither |
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| Practice at Univerrsity. |
I shoot a Hoyt Axis with a Samick Agulla grip with tape. Samick Extreme limbs. K&K rest.
I have a 33 inch beiter centraliser. 2 10 inch fomax twins with D2 soft doinkers. I use a 5" Catrel Exteder and Cartel 90 degree straight V bar.
I am shooting ACE 570 with 100 gr points, G nocks and 2 1/16" spin vanes.
The limbs are 68 inch rated 38# at 28. Holding 43# on the fingers. They are very very fast crisp limbs.
Stringwise - I always make my own. 20 strand TS-1. Its a really nice string, fast. With a tie on soft twist nock point.
My Sight is a 2005 Shibuya dual click carbon. Its real good. I use the Beiter apature because I like using a dot.
I started october 2002. I did ok and that keeps me going. I came second indoors for british university beginners (< 1 year) and first outdoors. Finishing 15th overall. 9th in 2004. I finished 10th for the county indoor and outdoor champs 2004. 3rd for county champs indoor double portsmouth also 2004. 2004 - 2005 has been a very quiet season so far! 2005 Beating all of my pb's 583 Portsmouth, 863 Albion, great so far, also won sha open & am currently southern universities champion.
My best scores so far...
Fita Gents 1035 Comp 1143* [253-286-280-336] (15/5/05) Practice
Double FITA 2152 Practice
FITA 25 545 Competition
Fita 18 554 Practice
Vegas target 539 Practice
Portsmouth 564 Competition/ 583* Practice (14/1/05)
1/2 Portsmouth 289 Practice
Worcester 277 Practice
Albion 856* (23/4/05) Comp 863*(11/4/05) Practice
Ladies Long Metric 605* (30/6/05) (293-312)
*are recent (2005) scores
I began compound archery Feb 2004. I shoot a Hoyt Cybertec at 53# with a Quicktune 3000 launcher. Easton Black Max 30" longrod. I use a Tru Ball chappy release aid and sometimes BT release aid, but i am yet to master it. Indoor arrows 30" Easton xx75 Yukkon 2315 with 125 gr combi points and 5" feathers Super G Nocks. Outdoors 29 3/8" Cartel Triple 300's.
Best Scores:
Gents FITA 1181 Practice (295 90m) my first and only fita.
Portsmouth 564* (jan 05) Practice
Fita 18 542 Practice
All the best archers are over 90kg ; )
Perfect practice makes perfection. I learned that shooting arrows doesn't improve scores beyone a certain level. You need to constantly work very hard, and always concentrate 100% on every arrow you shoot in practice. It will pay off. Practice is for training, competitions are for shooting arrows.
