The path of an arrow is never truly straight. arrows bend and arrows break.
My Grandpa nearly lived by the bow. The repetition of precision, the mastery of precision and the art of repetition.
Such a skill to be developed takes repetition. It is not unusual to shoot well more than a hundred arrows in a training session. It takes years to develop competence.
Competence is not the only thing developed. Change might be a more appropriate term. The bracing arm shoulder raises higher than the draw side shoulder. The bracing shoulders deltoids becomes more striated. The shoulder socket can become compressed. The brace arm can become far more stiff and rigid when extended.
The draw side trapezius becomes smaller in order to allow the archer to contract their back tighter. Nerve damage can develop in the draw fingers. Improper form may make a person draw with their shoulder and arm, causing elbow and rotator cuff injuries.
As far as rotator cuff injuries are concerned with my grandpa’s case, the cartilage in his socket ground down, leading to a couple of shoulder surgeries. As well as opioid prescriptions, both in the acute term and in the chronic term.
This was further fueled by in-state and out-of-state methadone clinics, of which there are a large number of them located in the Appalachians including South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee being particularly salient hotbeds.
There is also a triangular trade of pills, food stamps and guns. In my opinion, food stamps and pills were traded at need for one another, pills traded for guns both for cool factor, any practical uses of a gun, and as the most stable form of wealth assets. Pills were the most liquid and fluid form of cash or currency.
It makes sense really. They’re easy to count.
