Bad finger update

While I am not certain, as I don’t have a xray to confirm or deny my suspicions, I believe my bad finger is not gonna get better. 13 years ago, I broke the tip of my middle finger on my left hand.  You know what they do for that type of injury? Nuthin! Nada! Well, maybe these days they prescribe some serious painkillers, but they don’t actually “do” anything.  The reason I mention it, is the bad finger (middle finger of my right hand this go round) is showing a similar distortion as the one on my left, AND, pain under certain types of pressure.  In this case, excruciating pain while drawing a bowstring.  The outside is healed, not so much the internal.

Wait just a cotton-pickin’ minute Dio! You mentioned in your last post, that you had shot your recurve! If’n ya cant draw a bow, how’d ya do what you claimed?

Damned good question. Damned good.  Fact, I got ta thinking that in history, there was a real likelihood that someone may have hurt themselves and couldn’t shoot, similar to what I have done.  Only then, that would have been as close to a death sentence as you could get. So, a little research and the key words ‘primitive release’, some playing around and re-tuning of my bow, and ol Dio is back in business.

That antleris a seasonal drop from a spike that was roaming my hills last year. Fiddled with it and tweaked the string a bit and it works quite well, with the recurve.  It isnt as reliable with the compound and I did bust my face a couple of times with accidental releases, so this is strictly for use on the recurve. But no you know what those guys with busted boogerhooks may have done to keep putting food in the bellies.

I once heard that the science of archery is “whatever works”. That  ‘ just do it’ attitude has always rang with me; doesn’t matter if its weird, does it work? 

Yes it does.