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Viet-Tam Luu
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Professional code wrangler. Retired race car driver. Late-blooming Olympic recurve archer. Unapologetic Canadian.
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Happened to be in town while the Club de Tir-à-l'Arc de Montréal (CTAM) is having their garage sale so I went to check it out.

I'm envious of their indoor 70m range--a necessity given the climate, I suppose.

#archery #olympicrecurve
Selfie taken at CTAM archery club. Behind me in the distance can be seen racks of bows, next to green-painted pillars that divide up the large underground space into separate indoor archery ranges. White arrow curtains hang from the ceiling to partition the space. Photo of a vacant archery range, with green-painted shooting lanes numbered 1 through 4, blocked off by a metal gate, stretching into the distance. At the opposite end of the space can be seen large grey square archery target butts, one at the end of each lane and an extra one on the left. Behind the targets hangs a white arrow curtain. Large pipes run along the high concrete ceiling above.
December 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Archery comedy. 😂
Came so tantalizingly close to my goal of my first 300+/360 score at 70m today, only to be thwarted by not one but three wild fliers. 297/360 with three shots in the black. If any one of those had been better that would have sealed the deal. 😭
Next time!
#olympicrecurve #archery
Screenshot of an archery score sheet showing a total score of 297/360, and with all but three shots in the gold or red, and the three shots in the black.
December 1, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Now that I've stopped habitually looking through my scope after each shot, I just tell myself "Focus on making a good shot and sooner or later I'll go down to the target and find all arrows in the gold." And today it happened (again).
#olympicrecurve #archery
Photo of myself posing with a thumbs up gesture in front of an archery target with six arrows in the inner "gold" rings, with three in the center 10-ring and three in the 9. I'm dressed in my archery practice outfit, with a white T-shirt, black chest guard, white bucket hat.
December 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Cold foggy morning at the #archery range today... Perfect weather for setting a new personal best! Shot a 282, 282, 280, 289, for a new personal record of 1133/1440. 💪
#olympicrecurve
Photo taken at the archery range, with a spotting scope and Olympic-style recurve bow on its stand in the foreground, a target barely visible some 70m away in the distance under fairly foggy conditions.
November 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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And here's what that particular end, which was not exceptional for how I was shooting today, looked like on the target. Progress!
#olympicrecurve #archery
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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This close! 🤏
#olympicrecurve #archery
Photo of an archery target with five arrows in the gold 9-ring and a sixth arrow in the red 8-ring barely outside below the gold.
November 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Atmospheric river! A bit of a soggy and gusty session at the #archery range today.
#olympicrecurve
November 14, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Brought all my bows out and did a bit of A/B testing at the range yesterday. An embarrassment of riches: Win&Win TFT-G riser + Uukha SX+ limbs, Win&Win TFT-G riser + Win&Win MXT-10 limbs, Win&Win ATF-DX riser + Win&Win NS-G limbs. #olympicrecurve #archery
A photo of three Olympic recurve bows, without stabilizers attached, set down side by side on a picnic table.
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government..." #NoKings #SanJose
October 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Between running the event and getting back into shooting shape after 2 weeks' vacation, today's Vegas round club shoot was just about having fun. After shooting all 6s and up in the first half, I switched to 3-spot target and immediately shot a 5 (miss) 😅. Still, I did manage one good end. #archery
Photo of a 3-spot 40cm archery target. The lower left and upper spots have arrows in the innermost X-ring, and the lower right spot has an arrow in the 10-ring.
October 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Yep, X10s fly real good. The way these things fly dead-straight to the target when I make a good shot is soooo satisfying. I'm hoping most of the effect is mental, but either way, I shot my highest single-round 70m score in over two months today, 280/360. Onwards! #OlympicRecurve #archery
Photo of an archery target with six Easton X10 arrows in it. The target face is a partial World Archery 10-ring 122cm face, cropped partway through the inner black 4-ring. There are three arrows in the inner X ring within the inner 10 ring, one in the 9, one in the 8, and one in the 7, for an end score of 54/60. The arrows have yellow vanes and yellow-orange nocks.
September 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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First end shot with X10s. Don't get too excited, this was 30m on an 80cm face, but so far, so good. Next, 50m, then 60 and 70. Since these are about 30gn heavier than my VAPs I'm working my way back small steps at a time to figure out the new sight marks. #OlympicRecurve #archery
Photo of an archery target with six Easton X10 arrows in it. The target face is a World Archery 10-ring 80cm face. There is one arrow in the inner 10 ring, three in the 9, and two in the 8. The arrows have yellow vanes and yellow-orange nocks.
September 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Despite a string of disappointing tournament results this month, I've decided I'm finally ready to switch over to Easton X10s. #OlympicRecurve #archery
Photo of six arrows protruding out of an archery belt quiver resting on a wooden bench. The arrows have yellow "JET6" vanes and translucent yellow/orange Beiter out-nocks fitted over the ends of the arrow shafts. The "Easton X10" label in the middle of the arrow shaft is visible on most of the arrows near the quiver. On some arrows, a white single-digit arrow number label can be seen just forward of the vane; on others, the initials "VTL" are neatly written on the shaft opposite the arrow number label can be seen.
September 24, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Go to an #archery tournament in Sacramento in August, they said. It'll be fun, they said.
August 30, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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I'm trying out a new finger tab in an effort to straighten out my draw hand. It looks a bit like a cyberpunk-styled medieval torture device. Feels a bit like one too. 😅
#archery
Collage of two photos of my right hand "wearing" a Fivics Saker Plus EPR archery finger tab, which features a black anodized aluminum palm rest with a notable rear protruding section that ends into my palm towards my wrist.
August 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Finally took all my bowstring making supplies out of the big cardboard box they were haphazardly piled into and organized my small fortune's worth of serving thread and string material into some custom organizer trays I whipped up in TinkerCAD.
#archery
Photo showing blue, yellow, and white storage bins each containing an organizer divided into compartments of various sizes, most filled with spools of bowstring material, others with tools and supplies related to bowstring making.
August 7, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Been struggling for the past couple weeks when my scores suddenly plummeted for reasons unknown, but the goddess of #archery paid me a visit yesterday 🥰... only to depart just as suddenly 😭. Hopefully she left some blessings behind...
Screenshot of an archery Round 3, showing six ends of six arrows. End 2 has five of six arrows in the gold, with scores of X, X, 9, 9, 9, 4, and End 3 is even better with scores of 10, 9, 9, 9, 9, 8. Subsequent ends have considerably lower scores.
July 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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RIP brand new XS vanes 😅. (It's fine, I had a ton of these left over from back when I used them a couple years ago.)
#archery
Photo of the back half of nine arrows laying parallel on a concrete floor. Eight of the arrows have nearly identical damage to the bottom of three pink vanes, with a chunk torn out of the front of the vane.
July 29, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Also: my Black Hole foam target only "sort of" stops these arrows. 😬 The bow is currently set to 55 pounds peak draw; arrows from my 45-pound recurve don't stick through.
#archery
Close up photo of the back of a foam archery target, with six arrows each protruding about 8 cm out of the back of the target.
July 29, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Bad news: some kind of arrow clearance issue: 4 out of 6 shots, the bow bit a chunk off of the lower vane of the arrow. And I just fletched these too! 😂😭
#archery
Close up sidelong view of arrows protruding from a black foam archery target. The arrows have thin black shafts, three pink vanes, and yellow-green nocks. Several arrows are visibly missing a piece off of the front one of the vanes.
July 29, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Good news: shot some arrows with my "science project" bow (40-year-old Darton fingers compound + modern recurve accessories) for the first time tonight and I didn't die. Loading the arrow is a bit fiddly but the shot actually feels quite smooth.
#archery
Photo taken in my garage, with a vintage compound bow with modern Olympic recurve bow stabilizers and sight attached, sitting on a bow stand on the garage floor in the foreground. In the far corner of the garage is a grey recycling bin with a black foam archery target sitting atop it and six arrows sticking out of it. Also in the background are other contents of the garage: a water softener unit, a yellow welding machine, toolboxes, and other stuff sitting on shelves attached to the garage wall.
July 29, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Practicing today at the oldest (continually operating?) public archery range in the country, Golden Gate Park. #archery
Selfie taken with a green archery field behind me, and some San Francisco streets visible in the distance. I'm wearing a white Waterloo bucket hat and my Olympic recurve bow and spotting scope tripod are behind me.
July 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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That one arrow that hates you. 😅
Still, given that this was my first (70m; did a couple ends of bareshaft testing at 30 prior) end of the day, and in gusty wind, I'm not too sad about it. 😊
#archery
Photo of an archery target with five arrows in the inner gold ring and one in the outer black.
July 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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The first end I shot with my X10 arrows. At 18m; making sure the bareshafts were "in the same neighbourhood" before going back to 30m. #archery
Photo of a 40cm 10-ring archery target, with three bareshaft (without any vanes) arrows in the gold, two fletched arrows left of gold in the red, and one fletched arrow high-left in the blue.
July 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM