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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2007 11:01:41 GMT
Hello all, I love traditional archery, for history's sake and for the challenge and nostalgia of it. I have and shoot both a recurve and longow. I love ancient history, both civilizations and ancient warfare. I am fascinated with ancient military archers. I can just imagine the English archers tearing the French a new butt with their longbows at the Battle of Agincourt, or the Persians darkening the sky with their archers at Thermopolea. And the warfare between the Romans and whoever must have been awesome. Remember the archers at the beginning of "The Gladiator"? Awesome movie!
I was just curious if any of y'all are archers as well. FB
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2007 13:35:47 GMT
I use a recurve bow when out at the farm, but thats only a couple hours a month. not sure if that counts. lol
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Post by jpfranco on Apr 16, 2007 14:59:30 GMT
I have been practicing archery for the pas 27 years. I own three bows, a recurve, a compound and a longbow. I prefer the longbow by far. It is very forgiving and fun to shoot. I also run an archery club at the school where I teach. The kids love it. Archery is a lot fun, so is collecting swords, weapons and armor.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2007 15:40:43 GMT
I shoot a 65 lb long bow. I draw to 31" and shoot 32" arrows. I have been training to shoot a 130 lb longbow in the medieval method using a special pully excersice in the gym. I have a webpage dedicated to bows here: mysite.verizon.net/tsafa1/longbow/longbow.htm
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Post by rammstein on Apr 16, 2007 19:21:17 GMT
I shoot a 45#recurve, but I SHOULD be shooting upwards of 65-70#because 45 is way to easy for me. oddly enough, I can almost consistently hit a 50 yard target because, by complete luck, I discovered the perfect anchor point and bow positioning for hiting it. The only difficulty comes in horizontal movement of the bow, which is semi-difficult to control. I have a harder time on closer targets than on longer ones, strangly enough ;D
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2007 21:26:16 GMT
I used to shoot 1-2 times a week at a local archery range, where I used a 50# longbow. I like the look and feel of recurves though, and, I hope at one point in the future to renew my archery interest. Right now I'm swamped with work and training and of course, my wallet is spent trying to save up for some swords while keeping the bills paid.
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Post by ShooterMike on Apr 17, 2007 2:15:36 GMT
I have shot bows a very little bit, very long ago. When I was about 10 my grandfather (1/8-blood Cherokee) taught me to make a bow. Unfortunately, I wasn't very patient and didn't make a very good one...and my arrows were pretty crappy too. I had a series of kid's bows for the next 5-6 years, then became much more interested in guns, so I dropped the bow. Tsafa spurred my interest in longbows, and then Jason at AoV caught my attention with his bows. A week or two ago I called Jason and we discussed bows and arrows, culminating in my ordering a Black Bow of Beleg Strongbow and a dozen inexpensive arrows. I won't get it for another 6-7 weeks, but I can hardly wait. ;D
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Post by rammstein on Apr 17, 2007 2:25:11 GMT
Bloody hell! If this goes on, I'm going to have to buy myself a good longbow. Its a good thing my yard is natural archery range! Well I did shoot an arrow over my fence...once. Never found it though, and that was several years ago. Also, shootermike, I'm supposedly 1/16th cherokee so I'm sure that means were are distant relatives to the 3rd power ;D
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2007 2:59:33 GMT
Hey y'all, Yep, I knew it!! I knew there would be archers here! It is in your blood, just like good steel is!! By Jove, I wonder sometimes about raciel memories, or reincarnation ro something.
Anyway, both my recurve (an old Howatt) and longbow (Northern Mist Archery) are 60 pounders. I grew up watching Robin Hood with Errol Flynn. I love that old movie. And what's more the trick shooting was done by my late homeboy, Howard Hill.
Speaking of that, the 3rd Anual "Howard Hill Southeastern Classic" Traditional Archery Tournement is being held June 2 & 3rd at Tannehill State Park in McCalla, Alabama. I have never been but am thinking of going this year. Take care, FB
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2007 5:36:30 GMT
I was a competitive target (Olympic style) archer as a teen. I guess that's not "traditional."
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2007 10:12:43 GMT
Hey Jeffm, Yes it is, anyone that pulls a string and releases an arrow is an archer. It is the love of the release and flight of the arrow and the sport that makes us archers. I shot compounds for a number of years before I went back to traditional archery. I still considered my self an archer. I could still kill something with an arrow. So welcome to the string and arrow crowd! Heck, even a crossbow was a form of archery, a deadly form! Traditional is just the purest, most original form, but the others are still archery, just advances in it. FB
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2007 11:44:35 GMT
Have any of you guys tried shooting medieval style? I have a video on my webpaage that demonstrates it. Medieval style uses the Latisimus Dorsi muscles of the upperback in a more leveraged way so you can pull higher draw-weights.
Remember, never dry release you bow and always unstring your bow between uses and store horizontily.
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Post by rammstein on Apr 19, 2007 18:29:42 GMT
tsafa, I modified my style of shooting based off of that video and I'm proud to say that it has probably increased the bow powndage that I can manage by 30-40 lbs. Quite a difference! It also feels more fluid and and you get quite a stretch just by drawing the bow ;D
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2007 19:10:20 GMT
I seem to have missed this thread so far... Add me to the list, Hoss! I have a Howard Hill Bobcat, 60" long, 30#@26", which is my "super-fun, shoot-all-day, practice/target" bow, and a Howard Hill Wesley Special, 72", 48#@26", which is my hunting bow. There's another older archery thread (which I can't find at the moment) where I talk a bit more about my choice of tackle, etc. I'll run across it eventually.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2007 19:59:38 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2007 23:22:11 GMT
Hey Jeffm, I prefer to just go out in the woods or in some old field and "stump shoot" anyway. It is more realistic practice and is great practice and helps develope your distance, etc.. In the woods or fields I use either rubber blunts or judo points so I won't lose my arrows in case I miss or it is too slanted a shot and just walk along. As I'd do so I'd pic out a leaf here, a pine cone there, a certain weed over there, etc, and just up and let fly at these various targets at their various ranges as I walked along. I used to live out in the country and I would take my boys and we would walk along the country road near our house and shoot like that. I'd say, "Look boys, see that old piece of litter over there against that bank?" They'd say, "Yes Sir!" "Well, that is a rabbit. Gitttt iiiiittt!" They were just boys then and would let fly, no matter what the yardage, with their little bows. It was funny to watch their little scrawny bodies hunch up and take aim and let fly an arrow. They were serious as a heart attack with their bows. When they got older they were winning trophies in their class. But alas, now they are 13 and 16 and care nothing for nothing but gals and football!! We all got surprisingly good doing that. And more important it is a blast and a challenge! FB
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2007 13:06:52 GMT
Heck yeah. I've been shooting since I was a kid. I shot compounds for years. Then, a couple of years ago, I got a wooden recurve which is what I shoot exclusively now. I forget the model exactly, 62 in, 50 lb, laminated wood. Very nice. Have a great set of hard rock maple arrows, which are the toughest arrows on earth, by the way.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2007 20:22:52 GMT
As far as hunting goes, I do not hunt from a tree. I weigh over 300 and have no land so I must hunt public land where you can't put up tree stands (other than climbing ones) so I hunt on the ground. Believe it or not I got this urge to concentrate on small game with nothing but my longbow the last few weeks of our deer season. I did not get a rabbit but wound up bagging five Armadillos in a couple of weeks. The place was crawling with them. I would tense up and freeze for many minutes thinking it was a deer or rabbit and what would walk out, scratcing around in the leaves, but a "Dilla". I have been told that they are a nuisance now, carry deseases, and have moved in and are overpopulated in our area where you used to never see them. I felt sort of bad about killing them though. I have always lived by the code that I would not kill anything unless it was only for food, or something dangerous, etc..
One good thing about a dilla is that they will dig right into a Yellow Jacket or a Fire Ant nest and have at them. I like that because I hate those vicious Yellow Jackets and Fire Ants! FB
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Post by Razor on Apr 30, 2007 23:24:09 GMT
I have been shooting with bows off and on since I was a kid.
I have a recurve and a Mongolian horse bow
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2007 4:08:38 GMT
Dude!! I have seen those Mongolian bows in magazines, etc.. Does it shoot as sweet as they say they do? Are they accurate and powerful? I saw a Scythian bow I would like to have. I also loved Legolis' bows in Lord of the Rings! FB
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