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After realising my grim mistake of posting a dull, unrefined post that inspired all sorts of replies. So, I've decided to transform this into a sensible debate.

As archery is a hobby of mine, I wondered whether there are any denizens of these forums who also find archery fun. If so, what discipline of archery do you practice, what type of bows do you use?

Blue archer reporting.

That's like shooting arrows? Because I rarely see any Arrows flown. LFs are not popular so not often.

Oh, come one Snakz (or is that 3 "e"?) you can do better than that.

Anyway, what sort of bows do you people use? I'm longbow for life.

' Wrote:Oh, come one Snakz (or is that 3 "e"?) you can do better than that.

Sorry. I had to go before posting that so it was not as refined as it should have been.

My apologies. I will do better next time, I promise.

I am an archer, and I have a lovely, hungarian made, replica magyar horse bow. 40lb draw @ 32".

This is it




Edit: If I could afford it, I'd get a hand made Bickerstaffe longbow. One day.

Edit2: I've done standard target archery, and while quite good at it, it became dull quite quickly. I tried field archery and really enjoyed it, so that's what I'm going to be concentrating on

I have a longbow I made myself out of a 6 foot ash stave. After making the ends a little short, it's a 5'8" longbow, shoots about 150 yards with relative accuracy.

My other bow is a competition recurve, I believe it's 36 pounds, but I can't remember the pull. I've shot one of my carbon fibre arrows about 400 yards with that. I have a picture of the recurve lying around somewhere, I'll try and find it...

I was on my school's archery team for 3 months, does that count?

I haven't shot a bow in a few years, but I have a cheap compound bow and an old Recurve bow

My grandmother thought me how to build my own arrows and bow with what I find in the jungle, made my first crappy bow when I was a mere little child, never really practiced but I always loved shooting arrows at my friends, and aiming at long distance objects, I am not actively practicing it, but if you give me an arrow and a bow, you're gonna have a Sagittarius time.

APM-Sagittarius reporting in ...

Oh, not that kind of archer.

Double oh, since Sagittarius is my sign, and I also happen to be an archer as well.

Dad and I used to go deer hunting with compound bows when I was a kid, used a long bow when I was doing archery competitions in the SCA, and now I just have a simple recurve (about a 50 lb pull) that I keep to fart around with in the backyard every so often. I still have my handmade leather armguard I used to wear in the SCA.