If the wife won't let the kids go to the range, try archery - similar skillset and mindset.
Archery, the gateway drug.
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Yes. Life is sometimes about trade-offs/compromise. I'm planting seeds.Personal experience?
Fortunately, no such problem here. My boy's first shots were at 8 years old. Daughter at 10.
In the apocalypse, the looter better be slick. If he tries to steal my kids' pork-n'-beans, they'll put an arrow through the thieving bastards neck.
Just kidding. They don't really like pork-n'-beans.
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Archery is a good skill to have. I never learned to shoot instinctively, always used a compound with sights (and once I tried one, a release). I'm doubtful I could draw my late '90s era 65# PSA any longer, I have given thought that acquiring a crossbow, that would be fun to play with.
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Been interested in picking up some kind of barebow for fun target shooting.
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I have no interest in bouncing off the walls like this, would like to give easter style a try.
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Instinctive archery. 122,490 likes · 39 talking about this. “It’s focus. It just feels like magic.” "Instinctive archery is all about possibilities. Mechanist archery is all about alternatives."
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I have no interest in bouncing off the walls like this, would like to give easter style a try.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&t=108s
I love my archery stuff. I shoot a compound bow. (Diamond Infinite Edge 320) it's completely maxed out at 70lbs tuned to my 29.5"DL and kitted out to my liking/preference. I shoot a NON-EXAGERATED 2.0" group at 50yds with it consistently shooting Carbon Express Maxima's tipped and fletched by yours truly. I've shot as far as 80yds but I'm not to comfortable that far out as my lowest/farthest pin is set for 60, so after that, I kind of have to "feel it out".
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Been interested in picking up some kind of barebow for fun target shooting.
Started following this page a few moths ago.
Instinctive archery
Instinctive archery. 122,490 likes · 39 talking about this. “It’s focus. It just feels like magic.” "Instinctive archery is all about possibilities. Mechanist archery is all about alternatives."
I have no interest in bouncing off the walls like this, would like to give easter style a try.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&t=108s
That is some insane stuff!
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He splits an incoming arrow!!! very impressive.
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Archery, yeah, good skill to acquire. Back in the day, before the Boy Scouts became the Sortta Scouts, that was the one of the fun things about summer camp life. I ended up teaching the course the summers I worked at a camp.
Anywho, there are plenty of semi-recurve target bows out there, and they really last forever. My old 35# White Bear still works. I still use it from time to time for grins and giggles. Hoyt has decent break-down target bows as well, which has the option of switching out the limbs to heavier weights so you can use it as a hunting bow as well until you spring for a compound. I keep 40# limbs for target practice and 60# limbs to hunt with.
It is cheap fun you can do in the back-yard.
If you are starting from scratch on your own... seek out some professional help. Find a local pro-shop and go see them to get you sorted out for an appropriate size & weight bow, along with good arrows cut to length. It really does matter. Kinda like the difference between a one-size fits all shotgun vs. having one fitted to you with the right length of pull, cast, and comb... it just works better.
There are also some reputable online dealers ( I prefer Lancaster Archery ) to deal with as well, but everybody has to start somewhere and usually needs some in-person help figuring it out.
Anywho, there are plenty of semi-recurve target bows out there, and they really last forever. My old 35# White Bear still works. I still use it from time to time for grins and giggles. Hoyt has decent break-down target bows as well, which has the option of switching out the limbs to heavier weights so you can use it as a hunting bow as well until you spring for a compound. I keep 40# limbs for target practice and 60# limbs to hunt with.
It is cheap fun you can do in the back-yard.
If you are starting from scratch on your own... seek out some professional help. Find a local pro-shop and go see them to get you sorted out for an appropriate size & weight bow, along with good arrows cut to length. It really does matter. Kinda like the difference between a one-size fits all shotgun vs. having one fitted to you with the right length of pull, cast, and comb... it just works better.
There are also some reputable online dealers ( I prefer Lancaster Archery ) to deal with as well, but everybody has to start somewhere and usually needs some in-person help figuring it out.
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Been interested in picking up some kind of barebow for fun target shooting.
Started following this page a few moths ago.
Instinctive archery
Instinctive archery. 122,490 likes · 39 talking about this. “It’s focus. It just feels like magic.” "Instinctive archery is all about possibilities. Mechanist archery is all about alternatives."
I have no interest in bouncing off the walls like this, would like to give easter style a try.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&t=108s
Talk about walking quietly, but carrying a big stick, this guy is just crazy skilled and is the shoe-in for the gold medal at the Olympics.
Using100% wooden or plastic sticks and components, he could maybe cure world hunger and expose the cures for cancer in under a second if he ever got a wild hair to visit Davos when all the wonderful folks wander on stage for their group hug and group photo.
As a quiet expert on details like he is, he just might make it on the bus back home to grab a second coffee before the Davos camera guy ever knew what happened. Time stamped.
View: https://youtu.be/BEG-ly9tQGk?t=202
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...That looks like a high-capacity arrow-holding hand. NOBODY needs three arrows in five-fingered holding appendage.
And it appears that Lars is also using a fully semi-manual arrow-loading hand mechanism -uh-oh...
I HOPE that bow isn't scary/toxically masculine/tactical BLACK.
The real trouble of course, he appears to be using a highly dangerous wrist, or lower arm, brace...
Evil bastard.
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BTW, if anyone watches the Lars Andersen video, also watch the follow up where they are discussing why he is doing the demonstration.
And he is absolutely correct on the historical techniques of archery vs. the modern sport of archery. The history is so far back, actually into pre-history, that we really don't know the techniques used. So, we have a modern bias.
And he is absolutely correct on the historical techniques of archery vs. the modern sport of archery. The history is so far back, actually into pre-history, that we really don't know the techniques used. So, we have a modern bias.
Phhhffffyyyyyytttttttt!!!!!
You think firearm builds can get anal, start building bows.
Ive built a couple - forms made with my Browning Wasp as a template. Might as well buy another shed for that stuff.
My Compounds and Crossbow are strictly hunting, but longbows and recurves are all about the fun of it.
Getting a bunch of people together for a weekly shoot was the best.
You think firearm builds can get anal, start building bows.
Ive built a couple - forms made with my Browning Wasp as a template. Might as well buy another shed for that stuff.
My Compounds and Crossbow are strictly hunting, but longbows and recurves are all about the fun of it.
Getting a bunch of people together for a weekly shoot was the best.
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One of those things I never tried to do. Made arrows and strings, but never tried to laminate a bow. But really, the only one-piece bow I have was made at the Bear factory in Grayling, MI in 1974.... and it is still chugging along, albeit with a new arrow rest and pin sights added. Not much reason for me to make one these days. I will not rule out the possibility, but with the quality of what is out there, making my own would be solely an exercise in doing it just to say I did it.... well, been guilty of that kind of bloody-minded behavior, we are hanging out on a DIY firearms forum.
As for what I use... the White Bear is just a bit of nostalgia for me. It was a gift from my parents in the 70's. While I bought a BowTech compound to hunt with, I mostly use a Hoyt Excel ILF for both target and small game (one set of SF Axiom+ limbs for targets, and a set of Dryad Epic limbs to hunt with.) That's the great thing about ILF risers, they are like the Glock pistol of archery. Configure them any way you want.
Build/assembly isnt all that hard. Tune/time is another story.
Some plywood cut to shape and mostly scrapes for the form. 2 pipe clamps and 2 bicycle inner tubes and the forms complete.
Some plywood cut to shape and mostly scrapes for the form. 2 pipe clamps and 2 bicycle inner tubes and the forms complete.