[Archers] Trying to make some sense...

[Siegfried]

Unfortunately modern sensibilities are that 'Target Archery isn't
dangerous'.

Afterall, with a sharp broadhead if you don't hit a deer just right from
a high powered bow it doesn't kill them, and even then you have to chase
them down until they bleed to death

(etc etc)

It's why you find many modern ranges that allow people to retrieve from
one target RIGHT NEXT TO an active target.

"What?  It's just a bow and a target arrow"

*sigh*

Siegfried


On 7/19/10 1:20 PM, Garth G. Groff wrote:
> Lord Christophe and friends,
> 
> A couple of months ago I had just set up our practice range which is on
> a gas line right-of-way. Unfortunately, part of the safety zone overlaps
> a neighbor's property, but our host has worked this out with the
> neighbor. I just had the range ready when the neighbor drove his tractor
> with a mowing machine behind onto the safety zone. He stopped and looked
> at me, as I made bow drawing motions. He waved then made his own bow
> drawing motion, and drove off. Five minutes later he was back for
> another pass, then another. At that point I shut down the range (I was
> hearing thunder anyway). Now it is the guy's property, but either he's
> is stupid or cloddish, or both, since obviously he understood we were
> about to shoot. (Sigh!).
> 
> Because of weather (and this bozo) we haven't held practice since March,
> and because of Pennsic we won't shoot this month either. (Another
> sigh!). I'm sure glad we have paid access to a 20-yard indoor range at
> the Hunt'nShak. There we just get interupted by good ole boys who want
> to buy fancy bows with training wheels and need to test them out. At
> least Lady Sarah and I can impress them with bare bow shooting,
> something most of them have never tried and some have never even seen.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> 
> Lord Mungo Napier, Shire of Isenfir Target Archery Marshal
>

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