Thread: Any Archers out there??

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.