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It would have been great to have threads like this when I started. Best information was from fellow shooters. Also I found the book, Zen Archery, to be helpful. As LR said, shooting should be fun. IMHO, it is more a mental exercise than a physical one. One of the examples in the book, Zen Archery was about this. It commented that when one is shooting for fun, the target is easy to hit, as the stakes rose so did the misses. This also seem to support a article I read when women started in 1000M bench shoots. Women started to win, not that they were shooting better, but some of the men's scores where dropping. The author contributed that to loss of concentration on the part of the men. In stead of concentrating on the target, they where also thinking about being out shot by "a women".
I think people complete for all sorts of reasons. Competition can be a lot of fun or a PIA, depends on who one is shooting with.
This thread has been a great read and very enjoyable.
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