Thread: Any Archers out there??

I just have one thing to say............
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From 25 yds on the run.

Okay, make that 2 things.........




That's from 30 yds. I'm my 18' ladder stand. He sounded like a deer.one too many times.

...Okay maybe 3 things........




That's from 40-45 yds.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

...Okay maybe 3 things........

That's from 40-45 yds.

That's me on a good day at 20yrds

I used to use a bow, my body won't allow it any more.

Was part of the Goodyear Wingfoot, bow hunters club.
We didn't allow target bows, nor scopes, only hunting bows. We had a very large outdoor range, along with a moving target, as well as a course that was set up in the woods with elevated platforms at various stations.

I started with instinctive shooting with a recurve,
learning my form and release, (finger tab) and judging yardage. After about a year and many blisters on my finger tips from practicing hours every day, I got pretty good. That's when one of the groups from the club asked me to join them on one of the weekly shoots they put on.

I had no idea at the time, that these shoots, were against other bow clubs in Ohio, till I showed up for the shoot, and are parking lot was packed, I took third, in the instinctive class, for our club.

I managed to take quite a few 2nd and 3rd ribbons, that year, including a night shoot, but I wanted to up my game and class level, so I bought a Darton, lightening. At 70#, 29" draw, it was the fastest compound in its time for a bow without overdraw, and took a pile of 1st place trophies in my first year, with it.



The funniest shoot I ever attended was at another club, where they put on a safari shoot set up in the woods and grassy fields, along with tribes of pygmies, and grass hut village's. I'll tell ya what..trying to judge yardage on full sized targets like giraffes and elephants in the woods, is harder than you think, oh! And the swinging monkey, lots of lost arrows on that one.



@Paul...love the judo points, always kept one in the quiver, in case of critters N such, like yer self.

Really miss my compound, but I still have my recurve in storage, at my brothers.

One of my graduation pictures, from 1987.

Nice Mike! I've never done any competitions. Hell, I didn't even know I was any good until I was an adult. I grew up with the two-piece fiberglass recurve bows that had the metal (I think aluminum) block in the middle that doubled as joiner between the two pieces, handle and arrow rest. I used to hunt squirrels and rabbits with it when I was a kid. In fairness I put a lot of arrows where a squirrel used to be but I bagged quite a few of them also. Rabbits were a little easier until they decided to run. Half the time they would stand up on their hind legs and give you a nice white target. Down here we have cottontails and that's about it but boy are they good to eat. Anyway, I never really thought anything about it until as an adult I decided I wanted to hunt with a bow to extend the hunting season and I said something about hunting squirrels to one of my hunting buddies and he said, "Wait! You hunt squirrels with a bow?" My reply was, "Uh, yeah. Is that hard?" Honestly when I first got a compound bow it felt like cheating. I was so used to having to aim by eye that it took a little getting used to using sights.
Here's the bow I use now.



It's a Buckmaster which I think is made by Bear Archery, which is coincidentally here in Gainesville off Archer Road. Not named for archery but from the town of Archer which it goes through about 10 miles west of Gainesville.

No training wheels on this 74” English Self Bow...Yew Wood...

Cedar arrows ....with Zwickey Broadheads

Just like this one..

Some serious fletching on them arras Mike