May 4 2021

Folks,

Missed a day

3rd of May

Not for lack of trying

Ran out of Resource Credits

And I didn't even know...

Writing too close to midnight

^_Again

Went to send my Actifit post

Blockchain says no

The clock ticks over to 00:00

Sorry kid, you had your chance

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Learning more about Hive every day

There's a great many highly talented, interesting and unique people here, doing their thing

It's inspiring

You are the reason this network is great

Here's to you, everyone

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^{_{Imagine being able to tag every user on Hive...}}

^{_{Hi @everyone!}}

^{_{Check out my mediocre post!}}

Alright, so here's the thing

The flukey thing

From the archery day

The day before yesterday

See the post for more context

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I'd hired a recurve bow and three arrows from the club, plus a quiver for carrying them

$5 for the day

I was with a mate from work, who's an experienced archer, and a member of the club

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I started with a few practice shots in the newbie range

^{_{Where I had "right of way"}}

Then over to the courses for a round

We went for the Kestrel Course

There's twenty targets spread out around this big patch of scrub that makes up about half of the total archery range

The idea is you start at target one

^_Incredible!

Shoot a few arrows at it

Walk over, extract them

(Or find them on the ground if you've missed)

Then move on to the next one

You have to wrench the arrows with a bit of force to get them unstuck from the target

(I was shooting pretty close range, as a total amateur)

They're all fairly spread out too, making a round of twenty a decent hike

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Nice surroundings

Hilly, with trees, shrubs and a soaring view down to the distant ocean

As you can see above, the targets themselves are essentially big bags filled with... something

I don't know

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So off we go

Firing a couple of arrows each at the first target

Then moving up to collect them

I pull my three arrows, drop them into the quiver and start walking to the next one

As we're approaching target number two, I notice one of my arrows is sticking out a bit higher than the rest

I try pushing it down

Won't move

^_"What...?"

Thinking the arrowhead is caught somewhere inside the quiver, I pull it out for a look

It takes me a moment to realise what's happened

The penny drops

There's another arrow stuck to the end of mine

Actually, half an arrow

The half with the pointy end

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It was embedded within the first target!

And the point of my arrow landed in just the right spot to wedge itself inside the snapped-off end

_{Unbelievable!}

I didn't even notice when I first pulled mine out, but it was jammed on tight

Like I said earlier, you have to kind of wrench your arrows free from the target

So it was surprising that the half-arrow had stayed on through that

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I learned in that moment that you can use the words Robin Hood as a verb, and archers will know exactly what you're on about

Robin Hooding an arrow refers to that extremely difficult trick, probably confined more to the realm of myth, of so precisely firing your arrow that it splits your opponent's arrow lengthways while hitting the target

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Talk about beginners luck

And being totally oblivious

I hadn't even noticed that one of mine had substantially lengthened until I'd moved on to that second target

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We had a laugh

Wondered out loud "what are the chances...?"

And I kept the half-arrow as a souvenir

Archery!

What fun