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Weylin:
I live in Portland and as far as I know there is only one free, public range to shoot bows. Lately when I have gone there to shoot in a couple of my self longbows there have been several people with their fancy hightech laser sighted compound missle launcers shooting from a mile away. It's not that there isn't enough space for me to shoot its that I'd like to shoot from half the range which obviously isn't feasible to do at the same time that they are shooting. Has anyone here had similar experiences and if so how did you handle it?

Weylin

woodstick:
if they start on target 1 i allways go ahead of them say 5 or 6 then come back to the targets i miss. we have all trad clubs down here, i also shot a compound and i allways let trads go ahead of me cause when i shoot my sticks it may get me a favour in return.

sailordad:
most ranges near me are indoor 20yd ranges
there is one outdoor near by
it has a 3d course and a standard range
the standard range has bails at 10,20,30 yds etc all the way to 110 yds
all of which have their own shooting stations
most times when the wife and i go there we are the only ones there
but if the wheelie guys are there i do like woodstick does
either let them go first,or try and stay 5 targets ahead of them

FlintWalker:
Best way I know to handle it is either hand them a self bow to shoot or buy your own target and shoot somewhere else.  :-\

Justin Snyder:
I would rather be water boarded than shoot with most of the compound guys. I can hang out with them before or after but not during.  They get impatient because I don't want to shoot 60 yards and I get impatient waiting for them to play with all their mechanical stuff. I could shoot 6 arrows in the time they shoot 1 sometimes.

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