My son joined a homeschool archery league a couple months ago. With his fees one parent was entitled to a lesson and shooting session. So today I was up...
Yeah, and it was my FIRST TIME ever shooting a bow and arrow!
It's just like golf: take a deep breath, sight the target, use big muscles, posture(!), smooth release, have a repeatable ritual, etc.
Archery is definitely a *cool* hobby. If I wasn't so overloaded right now I'd be tempted to start getting into it.
We go to an indoor range near the middle of *The Island*. What an operation they got there! Who knew that archery was a money-maker. It's usually $15 to *shoot all day*. But there are hordes of enthusiasts that spend a ton of time and $$$ there. Why? Well, apparently it's illegal to shoot a bow and arrow in your backyard - at least in New York.
There's probably a little boom in the archery biz right now on account of The Hunger Games too.
(See none of y'all can do math....the shooting distance was an impressive 4,572mm.)
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I have a tendency to jerk more at those short ranges.
I once shot a squirrel running on the ground at forty yards.
So you're an archer, too?
That's what the guy said to me, that my arrows weren't straight because I wasn't releasing smoothly.
One dude down the range split an arrow. I thought that good archers could do it when they wanted but was told that it was pretty rare. Seems like *eagles* for golfers in that sense. They hung it up on a gallery on the wall.
I hear all these libertarian survivalists on the web talking about subsisting on squirrel meat when the apocalypse hits.
So how did it taste?
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