Archery

[Gonff the Mousethief]

Has anyone here ever shot a bow or own one? I dont mean those crazy compound bows, I mean regular recurve or long. Kinda like in Redwall!

I own two bows (About to be 3). One is two small, the other is my size.
I am a fairly good archer. I go to camp every year, and they have a small place for archery. It is soooo fun there! Anyway, i was just wonderin' if anybody else has done this.

[The Mask]

I've fired a Longbow a fare bit. I know the technique and I guess I'm pretty good but don't expect me to know any techniqual stuff.

[Norham Waterpaw]

 Our Phys. Ed. Class had an entire unit on archery. It was fun. We used Recurves. I've managed to get a bullseye from 35 feet. It was loads of fun. 

[Rusvul]

I have a fiberglass compound bow. Recurve was my preference, but hey, it was free. I'm not a very good shot... But I do occasionally enjoy archery.

[Rainshadow]

  I took archery when I was nine, and I still have a fiberglass recurve bow, a quiver of arrows, and the correct gear (arm guard and the finger glove... thingy.  Never learned their actual names.), but none of them are the correct size.  The arrows were cut to the length of my arm, but my arm has grown since I was nine, so now I have to borrow my older brother's arrows (and other gear) if I want to try doing archery.

[MeadowR]

I only tried Archery for the first time last year and I definitely got a taste of it - helped that I hit a good target. That was a kinda 'starters' archery though, so I haven't tried from a distance with a target board yet, but hopefully I will get a chance to try again.

[The Skarzs]

I've never been able to use a longbow, unfortunately.
I do have a small compound bow and can use one of my dad's compound bows. (90 Pound drawback).
I've used recurve quite a bit.

[Rainshadow]

  It's weird: I have a friend who recently got a compound bow, and I'm used to the recurve where you pull the arrow all the way back to your cheek before firing, yet I can barely pull the string to my elbow with her compound  Not sure if she just has a really small bow, or if I have no idea how that specific type works.  As I'm not familiar with many different kind of bows, I'd like to ask this: when you draw a compound bowstring, is it supposed to go all the way back to your cheek, or does it not reach that far?

[The Skarzs]

It goes that far, yes.
It is harder to pull back at the beginning, but after about a foot of draw, it eases up and goes to your cheek.

[Rainshadow]

It goes that far, yes.
It is harder to pull back at the beginning, but after about a foot of draw, it eases up and goes to your cheek.

  Ah, then it must be that the bow is too small for me, because I was pulling pretty darn hard (even though it's been years since I've done archery, I still haven't lost the ability to draw a string.  ), and that's as far as it went.  I didn't dare try and pull it back further for fear that I'd damage it.

[Leatho Shellhound]

I've pulled back a compound bow before.....but the arrow flew in the wrong direction (to say the least)...I think I need to work at it a bit more.

[Tam and Martin]

Never really did much archery.....

[The Shade]

I have a carbon fibre bow, about the most simple bow in the world. There's a bow, a string, and an arrow. 

[Cornflower MM]

I'd like to learn, but with my rather poor eyesight, I don't think I'll ever ask for a bow and arrows....

[BlueRose]

I shot a bow a couple of times at a Renaissance Fair... I'm horrible aim, though. I prefer short-range weapons.