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i just wanted to put this up to see how many archers are hear. need help want to ask questions do it right here for archers and people who want to be archers. :sniper: :cool:

I've done a bit of archary.

I wouldn't mind trying it one day but I don't know of any archery ranges near my house.

i have a special type of archery. look at my flag ;)

Many years ago I used to practice archery every single day, for a couple of years I practiced like that. Not competition though, hunting skill wise, so that I would practice from above, from below, from different angles and distances etc...


It's a good sport, all on it's own, hunting isn't required to make the Archery practice a valuable and fun hobby.

I've shot both competition and for big-game hunting (primarily moose and bear). But I haven't touched a bow now for about 3 years.

Did a bit many years ago. I started when my dad, a bowhunter, gave me and my little bro our own little fiberglass recurves for Xmas many years ago. But I haven't done anything in years. My dad and brother still do (and they both shoot and hunt with black powder muzzel loaders as well.)

Wolfish, I'm damned impressed. It must take a big paiur of brass ones to hunt bear with a bow.... Out of curiosity, what do you use for a backup?

Wolfish, I'm damned impressed. It must take a big paiur of brass ones to hunt bear with a bow.... Out of curiosity, what do you use for a backup?

There's a funny story there...

First time I went bow hunting for bear I was, to say the least, nervous. So nervous that I hadn't actually considered "back up." So me an a group from this archery club head up into northern Ontario (Canada) and we're all unpacking our gear...and the guys are all pulling out shotguns and such...and I'm like..."WTF!" - and they all have a good laugh at me...one overly generous guy tosses me a can of pepper spray.

So, for my first foray into hunting black bears with a bow - my backup was a 14 oz can of pepper spray.

On that trip I only actually saw one bear - took a shot that went high.

On subsequent trips I packed one of these:

http://www.winchesterguns.com/prodinfo/catalog/detail.asp?cat_id=512&type_id=036&cat=099C

...and I'm like..."WTF!" - and they all have a good laugh at me...one overly generous guy tosses me a can of pepper spray.


:p

That's a good one :D

i just wanted to put this up to see how many archers are hear. need help want to ask questions do it right here for archers and people who want to be archers. :sniper: :cool:
OOOHHH! archery is my favourite sport! i practice allot, and i both bowhunt and do compititions(not very good at the compitions though, it's odd, i can hit a moving animal better than a target.)

I have an old Bear compound bow... I shoot it like twice a year...

I did competitive bow-shooting many years ago, but nowadays i only do shoot a longbow at larps and occasionally practice target-shooting.

There's a funny story there...

First time I went bow hunting for bear I was, to say the least, nervous. So nervous that I hadn't actually considered "back up."

LOL!

Reminds me of my backpacking trip in Alasaka. I noticed the local teacher/guide (it was a sort of inter-high-school senior trip) packing his shotgun, and asked why. All the locals were just dumbfounded that this Texas boy had never run across kodiaks or moose prior to that trip... (One of which I can pesonally say is tasty!)

are any of you from yorkshire the county or near im a member of the white rose archers. to all you americans or others bow hunting is ileagel in england :headbang:

I'm a farmer from Kettlewell in the heart of yorkshire.

I can throw an arrow with a bow

My whole family are Archers. It's our surname!!!!!!

I had a unit on archery in PE when I was in 8th grade. I don't know why, but I did. That's about all the experience I have.

Archery's pretty fun. I've done it a few times, and I'd like to do it some more. Alas, I don't have a convenient archery club nearby. I may start going shooting.

I've done some archery at girl scout camp before. It's not too terribly hard.