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First Can-Cut Using Butterfly Style

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G'day everyone thought I'd share this today. Yesterday I decided to try the butterfly shooting style because I found some long bands laying around. I have never tried this style before and couldn't really seem to find much useful information on YouTube etc. What I did find was that its mainly built off lots and lots of practice to form muscle memory. After 500ish shots yesterday I managed to hit the can around 50 times. I know that is a horrible stat but that's what happened. After this I decided to give it a break until today. This afternoon I was back at it again and actually managed to find somewhere for my draw hand to go and it felt more comfortable upon release than it did yesterday. After 110ish shots I had managed to hit the can over 80 times, which is much better than yesterday considering the amount of total shots. At around 95ish shots on the actual can and it finally split in half. I was using 6mm steel so it took a very long time to cut the can. I would have used some 9.5mm steel but I found it scary and the thought of a big ball hitting me in the side of the face didn't tick my boxes. I will continue to practice with this style and once I'm comfortable enough I'll move to the bigger steel but at the moment 6mm is fine. :D

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Good for you. Once you feel that power it’s hard to go back.
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Nice one! While I can shoot full butterfly my accuracy is hilarious so a good middle ground for me is half butterfly.
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Good for you. Once you feel that power it's hard to go back.
I take it that you shoot butterfly too then? If you do, roughly how long did it take you to perfect?
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Nice one! While I can shoot full butterfly my accuracy is hilarious so a good middle ground for me is half butterfly.
Haha yes mine is more like a 1/2 butterfly too maybe around 1.5 feet behind my head...
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My Mum says I can't try the butterfly until she ups my life insurance.

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My Mum says I can't try the butterfly until she ups my life insurance.

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Haha yeah it's scary
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Good stuff, congratulations. Learning can be fun. You guys must not be sporting full beards.
Good stuff, congratulations. Learning can be fun. You guys must not be sporting full beards.
Cheers mate!
Good stuff, congratulations. Learning can be fun. You guys must not be sporting full beards.
I'm not sure I understand this comment regarding beards.
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Good stuff, congratulations. Learning can be fun. You guys must not be sporting full beards.
I'm not sure I understand this comment regarding beards.
As in full beards might get in the full butterfly flight path ?

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BTW....that's a beautifully grained sling.....what kind of wood is that ?

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BTW....that's a beautifully grained sling.....what kind of wood is that ?

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It's pine I carved it from a pretty decent sized fork so the grain is fairly nice. I have a torque and many others like Dankung, GZK etc. But I really like this natural as I carved out grooves for myself.
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BTW....that's a beautifully grained sling.....what kind of wood is that ?

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It's pine I carved it from a pretty decent sized fork so the grain is fairly nice. I have a torque and many others like Dankung, GZK etc. But I really like this natural as I carved out grooves for myself.
WOW, never would have guessed Pine, beautiful though.
I do a good bit of carved finger grooves myself, so like that feature a lot

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