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[Nouth]

So, anyone of you into archery? I've been training since I was 8 years old (I just realized that I'm doing archery for half of my life now O.o)
I use a 30lb longbow.

EDIT: Sorry not to mention it more clearly, I'm talking about real life archery.

Edited by Nouth, 09 July 2012 - 05:46 AM.

[One]

I find it fun, but dont get to do it much. Using a bow is cool for hunting I guess but Skyrim I get to use a bow and kill things other than deer so maybe if they had dragons irl then I would start doing more archery.
So summary: Skyrim is fun, and archery is good

[Archangel]

I've had my own bow for two years now. I use a PSE Rally compound bow.

I have it set a 45 lb draw weight right now. But it can go up 70 lbs.

I don't get to shoot much unfortunately. I live in a big enough city I can't just go to my back yard and shoot and it's small enough that there's no Archery range unless I want to drive for an hour to get there and an hour back.

[FALCON PUNCH]

I do archery some times not sure what type of bow though.

[~LowfatEnvelope~]

I'd like to get into it more as it has always greatly interested me. Right now I basically just shoot at balloons to try and improve my aim with a recurve bow (its only like 20lbs though ). After I improve some I may get a better bow.

[KakeiTheWolf]

Me! I love archery!

[Nouth]

I'd like to get into it more as it has always greatly interested me. Right now I basically just shoot at balloons to try and improve my aim with a recurve bow (its only like 20lbs though ). After I improve some I may get a better bow.

Do you go into a club or something ? It makes it a lot more interesting I go to a traditional archery club, we only use wooden bows,
and focus on rapid fire archery (some of us (me included ) are capable of firing an arrow every 1.3 second), and generally shorten ranges (we do shoot at 60 meters occasionally, but mostly, we train at about 25 - 30 meters.). And also, there are moving targets, we call them running wheels, they are tricky bastards and really hard to hit, we launch them from a ramp 1 meter above ground, and they run across 3 meters wide range where we can hit them. We are 10 meters from the target range, and the wheel is like 20 cm in diameter.

Me! I love archery!

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[KakeiTheWolf]

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I don't get the chance often, but since I am a weakling, I never go above a 50 pound pull bow. I don't really have the most accurate groupings (Shots within an inch of each other 20 yards out), but I do decent distance, averaging 750 foot shots.

Once, I fired an arrow around 700 feet, and was within a quarter inch of hitting a clay pigeon on the ground.

[Whiteshade]

Impale all the pigeons?

I'm not really interested in archery, I prefer ballistics more.

[Archangel]

Do you go into a club or something ? It makes it a lot more interesting I go to a traditional archery club, we only use wooden bows,
and focus on rapid fire archery (some of us (me included ) are capable of firing an arrow every 1.3 second), and generally shorten ranges (we do shoot at 60 meters occasionally, but mostly, we train at about 25 - 30 meters.). And also, there are moving targets, we call them running wheels, they are tricky bastards and really hard to hit, we launch them from a ramp 1 meter above ground, and they run across 3 meters wide range where we can hit them. We are 10 meters from the target range, and the wheel is like 20 cm in diameter.

So an arrow every second? NICE! I'd need a back quiver to get anywhere close that. Of course I prefer to practice accuracy instead of speed. Plus, nocking, drawing and aiming a 45lb compound is harder to do as fast than a 20lb recurve.

I'm not a big fan of traditional wood bows. I prefer compounds, they're more modern, smaller while still delivering high draw weights, and are generally better for hunting. (Which I plan to do. Eventually.)

And moving Targets? Man I would love to have a moving target. First I need my own archery range though.

Edited by Archangel, 09 July 2012 - 08:36 AM.

[Twister The Twisted]

ive done it a few times and enjoyed it so i decided to make it one of my activities in college

[~LowfatEnvelope~]

Do you go into a club or something ? It makes it a lot more interesting I go to a traditional archery club, we only use wooden bows,
and focus on rapid fire archery (some of us (me included ) are capable of firing an arrow every 1.3 second), and generally shorten ranges (we do shoot at 60 meters occasionally, but mostly, we train at about 25 - 30 meters.). And also, there are moving targets, we call them running wheels, they are tricky bastards and really hard to hit, we launch them from a ramp 1 meter above ground, and they run across 3 meters wide range where we can hit them. We are 10 meters from the target range, and the wheel is like 20 cm in diameter.

No I'm not, but that sounds really cool. May haveta look into that

[JhonHipster]

When I was younger (8 or so) I used to run around the woods making bows from sticks and using bailers twine as string and shoot trees rocks and other stuff. That about as far as I got in archery.

However with deer populations in non-rifle areas sky rocketing and shoot guns requiring to be 1000 meters from houses I guess I may take up using a crossbow.

Edited by jarrod989, 09 July 2012 - 07:27 PM.

[Lady Rarity Pony]

I was interested in archery.

Spoiler

until I took an arrow to the knee

Edited by Lady Rarity Pony, 11 July 2012 - 07:00 AM.

[Archangel]

I was interested in archery.

Spoiler

until I took an arrow to the knee

Gah. I saw this in latest responses, and finished it in my head before even clicking it.

[yehaaa6]

I would like to get into something like this... I wonder if there's any ranges near my house.

[TGAP Babs Seed]

I've done a little archery, but only started this year thanks to an archery class in school. But that was the only time I got to do because I don't own a bow yet.

[Derpy Dash]

I bought myself a simple recurve bow a couple years ago, and enjoy shooting at targets. I also enjoy shooting guns, it helps me release anger. (which I seem to have a lot of)

[Another Creative Username]

I did some archery in school, in fact, its my first activity of the year in my PE class!

[xGamer4Evax]

Im on the archery team at my school