Any Archers in the house?

[Joe Gondek]

90% of my shooting is with a flintlock (though if I had the $$ I could get really interested in the cowboy era guns!).

I tried cowboy action shooting but after 30 something years of flint locks I couldn't get used to bending down to pick up bass

[sirdaniel1975]

Archery? If you mean 310fps a compound bow that is barely audible from 10ft away. Carbon fiber arrows, and steel broadheads... yes.

Before you traditionalists get on me for using a compound bow, remember that you're using the internet forum and not a slate chalk board.

PS. They did a mythbusters on the "robin hood" splitting arrow thing... Myth Busted. Apparently you can't even split an arrow if you hold it still and try to run a knife through it. The grains always prevail and force the knife/arrow out before it makes it all the way down.

watch this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG43vFknI0E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzssL...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH2JeLiTFQg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6EuHCmsX8g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Iwcyfuyvg

I love that show Mythbusters, but I've seen episodes where I disagree. Usually because they don't usually use the proper materials and motion involved.

[Big Paul]

My good friends wife and her first Robin Hood..


Her second Robin Hood..

Her third Robin Hood..


He himself has RH's from 15 to 50 yards....
And he is the one that taught me to shoot a bow!

[thoth51]

I'm taking archery lessons at the moment too, and this thread caught my eye. A little casual surfing on whether kilts were appropriate for the range led me to this site:

http://archerynationals.com/08nation...gistration.htm

Excerpt:

3.1.18 Dress Regulations [similar to FITA 3.22]

(Jumping ahead to the rule in question)
3.1.18.3 Pants, shorts, skirts, divided skirts, etc. must be a solid unpatterned colour and may not be shorter than the fingertips when the arms and fingers are extended at the side. Blue jeans and fleece track pants are not allowed. (Bold mine)

The rule says nothing about kilts, but I guess this means that if you are competing in a FITA (International Archery Federation. The acronym is from the French) tournament, tartan is out.
Any experienced archery know why the emphasis on non-patterned clothing? Visual distraction perhaps? And why does it only apply to bottoms?

[kiltedwolfman]

I'm incredibly passionate about archery. I have hunted almost every big game species in Canada with a bow and always find a couple of hours the range a kind of zen experience. I have taught archery and archery hunting skills for many years now, aswell as the combative application of archery to my martial arts students. Now I'm waiting for my little girls to get old enough to draw a bow and I'll be taking them to the range too.

[Tartan Hiker]

I've been shooting recurves for 40+ years. Still don't own a longbow (borrowed the one I'm shooting in this photo from Loch Norman HG in 2007).



Presently own 5 Pearson "Hunter" recurves (for the wall only) and my competition and hunting bow is a Damon Howatt Hunter (pre-Martin). I also make custom cedar arrows and Flemish twist bowstrings.

I just bought my son a custom Treadway longbow with a nifty celtic button inlaid on the riser. It's his high school graduation present (no photos yet).

[Rex_Tremende]

I took archery as an elective activity one summer when my parents sent me away to Camp Sacandaga in the Adirondack. I accumulated all of 7 points the whole week.

Really, you don't want me around a bow and arrow.

Anyway, I spotted a UK-clad fellow on a bowhunting site today - He says about the kilt:

it is a Utilikilt, nice stuff and easy to shoot in...lol, matter of fact, almost had a nice buck surrender last fall without a fight when he looked up....

Regards,
Rex.

[longfletch]

iv been making my own gear for me and my family for years, theres just something about turning a tree into a weapon, heres a few pics of one, and the family bowfishing.
[IMG][/IMG] english style longbow
[IMG][/IMG]tiller is off a bit but still shoots good
heres a fish i just shot primtive style no reels or fiberglass

local river cane arrow, saw blade head, fun times!
bryan

[KiltedSurveyor]

Hey Longfletch, where're you out of? That looks like a Middle Tennessee River to me! I'm trying to find the time to make my boys their own bows, and I bet they would love fishing with it as well. Looks like a fine family activity!

[longfletch]

KS, that is Little River in eastern NC, it was last summer when we had a big drought, so the center of the river was a big sandbar, we would walk on sandbars and shoot at the fish, the kids loved it, and a good way to cool off in the heat.
bryan