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Sharing ranges with compound bows
crooketarrow:
Guess I'm lucky never used a range could always just shoo in my back yard if I wanted. I only do this when tillering a bow. I do all my real practice stumping.
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crooketarrow:
SORRY ABOUT THAT
I'm sure there public land or a farmer that will let you shoot. I love shooting those fields where the round bales a left setting around. I've even shot back my hall way on those rainy days when I wanted to shoot. Did'nt make the old lady to happy but she dos'nt like it when I deer hunting everyday either. OWELL
Sorry I think everyone lives in the country but I'm sure you can find somewhere to shoot other than the range if you really want to.
John hoare:
Hi Weylin,
The best and only way is to buy your own wood. Set a purely instinctive club up and post a notice up to the effect:
This wood is only for the use of those who practice genuine instinctive archery. I regret that on no account are training wheels or sighting aids allowed. It takes too long to release an arrow, and that alone could cause those waiting to shoot to fall asleep at the peg, which could prove dangerous.
It is unfortunate, but archery seems to have taken a turn for the worst when compounds and sighting aids entered the archery scene. It takes a high degree of natural skill and a little speed to shoot a primitive and traditional bow instinctively. The modern archer does not know this, they are not taught this, and therefore know no different. It is up to us the primitive and traditional archers to teach them. But then, maybe they have tried instinctive shooting and have chosen the wheels and such as the easier option. I don't mean to be critical of the people who make use of wheels Weylin, but you are right, they do tend to be sloooower and do put the instinctive archer off their stride. The only cure is to be separate and shoot with other instinctive archers in or at an instinctive club, and they, where I live, are as rare as hen's teeth. So I shoot by myself in my back garden, which isn't much fun, but at least I am in no danger of going to sleep. [/b]
M-P:
Sloooooower! One of my buddies was practicing in an indoor range and a rather boorish compounder said something about my buddie's yew longbow shooting slow. My friend made a bet that his longbow shot faster than the compound. The other guy agreed, so they stepped up to the line to put it to the test. My buddy shot off three arrows before the compound had even released one, said "see" and then asked the other guy to pay up. I think he's still waiting. Ron
John hoare:
Hi M-T.
A Jesuit priest once said: "Give to me the child and in seven years I will give you back the man." Maybe we should teach our kids to shoot with genuine instinct at this early age before those with the wheels and other things get to them. Then we would not have sky-high insurance premiums and boring over long shoots to contend with. Then instinctive clubs would be thick on the ground. >:D
Plant the seed and it will grow; do nothing and somebody else will plant the seed for you...usually theirs.
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