who here shoots ARCHERY

i shot a Bear Polar LTD compound bow back in college
Got me an "A" in Archery Class

i have yet to take one to field

but a crossbow does call to me...

dZ
 
I been target shooting for about 6 years, just started deer hunting with a bow last year, took a shot but arrow glanced off of a tree branch. I'll get one this year though.
 
I hunted archery a bit in my youth. I shot a deer and a bunch of cotton tails. But finally came to a conclusion about bows and arrows if they was superior to rifles Geronimo would have been president. :)
I still shoot archery a bit and do enjoy it very much.
 
Yes, I shoot targets in the backyard with my Golden Eagle Evolution Left handed bow. My 2 year old Daughter was my range master last summer, "Range is hot",


What is out there?

"A DEER!!"

what should Daddy do?


"SHOOT IT"


THUNK!

"AGAIN!"


Ahhh,

Now Sometime I DO intend to actually fling a stick at a deer, but I haven't had many opportunities to do so yet.


However, If archery hunting is about getting close to game, then I must be doing something right, once I had a fawn walk up and nibble on my coat!

This summer the older daught will get a youth bow, but I don't know if she is big enough to pull it yet.

I would read/post to an archery forum here,
but there must be other sites for archey, No?


Gfrey
 
i get an archery deer tag every year.i hunt with a recurve useing cedar shafts. it gives me another tag and is alot longer than rifle season. i pretty much hunt all the seasons be it bow ,rifle,birds with ashotgun ,spring turkey or whatever.....i love them all
 
actually

Gfrey-

I would read/post to an archery forum here,
but there must be other sites for archey, No?


actually i already talked to Art about this and he said it wasnt really logical because they have to pay for broadband and things of that sort-just post stuff in here in the hunt-i like archery forums and stuff but theirs barely any of them out there and good ones are a WHOLE lot scarcer..
 
ooh :)

i just got back from the Kansas 4-H State Shooting sports match end and i ended up taking first in blackpowder-3rd in olympic-and qualified to go to the National Shooting Sports Competition in NM this year, its gonna be sweet, ive been thinking about getting a new bow for a while and this is a good opportunity to get it, im thinking 45-50 pound pull and maybe a PSE Coyote-around the 200 dollar range or so (I cant afford the Bob Lee yet haha)
 
I've always wanted to try archery - but I think peewny little me can't even pull the string back! Tried once with a compound bow at a pawn shop and I felt like I was going to rip my arm off.

What do you recommend for starters - I've got a really old fiberglass recurve bow that's been in the closet for years (I don't even remember where it came from). I guess I can buy a string to put on it and start learning with that?
 
Start light and work up. The working of the muscles of the drawing arm and shoulder is pretty much unlike almost all other. Well, maybe using a handsaw, a lot...

Try a plain-vanilla simple bow of 30 or 40 pounds. Work with it until it seems very easy. Move up 10 or 20 pounds more. All this practice and building up of the muscles will help your accuracy, as well.

:), Art
 
hm

for a beginner something u can practice with alot-not alot of pull-and is accurate enough to work, and fun to shoot.(those old fiberglass are hard to keep the arrow on the rest and u can lodge the vane in ur hand if ur not carefull keeping it on the rest) u can find a new or used recurve bow for not that much at all-20-30 bucks +
 
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