Archery: C/D?

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I've been reading a book about the Eurasian Steppe Warriors, and there's a whole chapter called "Horse and Bow," which goes into great depth about bow and arrow construction and technique.

I took archery once in camp, and it was my favorite activity. I don't play any sports, and besides, archery would make a good eccentric affect.

Does anyone out there do it? Are lessons expensive? Are there any good ranges in the NY-NJ area?

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 13 June 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

In order to keep this thread bumped up, I'm going to post an awesome illustration of an Ottoman archer ("Lords of the Horizon" claims that they could fire backwards at a rate of three arrows per second. Fuck!)

http://www.newn.cam.ac.uk/Skilliter/frontier.jpg

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 13 June 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Two words: Robin Hood.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 13 June 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

CLASSIC! Sometimes I have these internal aesthetic objections to using composite bows, but then I remember how much easier it is to shoot so much farther with them.

One more word: Legolas!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 13 June 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

I had a housemate once who hunted deer with a bow. He was a really cool guy, but his crossbow-hunting pal was a little strange. Conclusion:

Bow and arrow: classic
Crossbow: dud

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 13 June 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

My sister and her bloke do archery fairly seriously, competing and the like. Equipment=expensive, also travel to shoots etc. But fun for the detail-obsessed lightish sportsperson who wants killer shoulder and back muscles!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 13 June 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Btw nickalicious, they also think compounds are dud. My sis is planning on going further retro and trying the longbow. Agincourt stylee.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 13 June 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

That's fucking awesome.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 13 June 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

http://www.magicdeckvortex.com/cardpics/WHITE/longbow_archer.jpg

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 13 June 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

Classic because it's named after me.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 13 June 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

Me and this kid I used to shoot with talked for years about going squirrel hunting with our bows. We never did, but I still roffle a little bit inside, conjuring up that mental image of that poor little squirrelly bastard with an arrow through him. And then I remember why they thought I needed to take the meds.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 13 June 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

White weenie is so rad.

http://www.psi-soft.co.uk/images/M/6E/DAvenantArcher.JPG

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 13 June 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

totally classic. I also have an aversion to compound bows, whenever i use(d) them it felt like it was going farther than it should.

i could never imagine having any kind of accuracy shooting from horseback. theres a fucking skill.

― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

THE FINGER!

― Huk-L, Monday, 13 June 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/kirbyga.jpg

― Huk-L, Monday, 13 June 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Parthian Shot!!!

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

There's actually an indoor archery range a few blocks from my apt. I've often thought that maybe my time would be better wasted there than at home playing Xbox.

― Huk-L, Monday, 13 June 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

http://www-scf.usc.edu/~jan/New%20Res%20College/legolas-in-bed.jpg

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

i could never imagine having any kind of accuracy shooting from horseback. theres a fucking skill.

-- AaronK (fuzz_...), June 13th, 2005.

I wonder if there are clubs of people who still do mounted archery.

Wait, isn't there some weird olympic sport that involves this, like the sextathalon or something?

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 13 June 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

triathlon?

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 13 June 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

biathalon

― oops (Oops), Monday, 13 June 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

"eccentric"

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 13 June 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www2.raisport.rai.it/news/sport/tarco/199909/21/37e746a102e34/gd3.jpg

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 13 June 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

I believe biathlon involves cross-country skiing and shooting, not horseback riding archery.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 13 June 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

it does

― oops (Oops), Monday, 13 June 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

Dud.

We've invented guns, move on people.

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

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