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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Ben on May 13, 2023, 05:47:55 PM
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I keep a right-handed recurve bow for guests (I'm a lefty) so they can have fun stuff to do while visiting. I've had a few guests in the last few months, and each of them has lost one if not more arrows by missing the target. Some I find, some I don't. I found one today from sometime between the last time I used my drip irrigation for the fruit trees and grapes and today, when I was pulling and checking the drip line to start it for the season. They missed a big ass 24"x24" target, but managed to make this bullseye. :rofl:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52895781825_6d49539cc4_c.jpg)
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Given the nature of arrows wanting to glance to the side of round objects that's quite an unlikely hit.
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Given the nature of arrows wanting to glance to the side of round objects that's quite an unlikely hit.
I've noticed that when arrows hit the ground at a shallow angle, they like to burrow down. There was a bunch of dead vegetation over the drip line, so I guess that kept the arrow from glancing away. Still a hell of a shot though. :laugh:
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Pretty steep angle, was the target in the sky?
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Uh, I lifted it so it would be easier to see. It was buried under dead veg before that. =)
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Ok, That makes sense. Carry on...
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I’m guessing field points. Target point (bullet shape) would be a lot less likely to stick like that.
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I’m guessing field points. Target point (bullet shape) would be a lot less likely to stick like that.
Whatever you call these ones:
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Y44USA+wL._AC_SL1500_.jpg)
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Get you some of these for your guest arrows. They will stick in target butt just fine but won't burrow into the grass. Also great for small game.
https://www.amazon.com/Zwickey-Judo-Points-Screw-J100/dp/B00EGRM4QQ
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They will stick in target butt just fine
Well that's good to know :rofl:
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OK there Beavis.
https://thearcheryexpert.com/archery-butts/
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Okay, never heard of them. But I've never gotten into archery
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Okay, never heard of them. But I've never gotten into archery
I laughed and thought it was a typo as well. It wasn't just you.
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Get you some of these for your guest arrows. They will stick in target butt just fine but won't burrow into the grass. Also great for small game.
https://www.amazon.com/Zwickey-Judo-Points-Screw-J100/dp/B00EGRM4QQ
I think I may have a bag of those in my compound hunting bow case. I had bought them for small game hunting, but I'll have to dig them up and give them a go for targets.
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Wow. You and irrigation systems just hate each other, don't you?
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And wow... you clowns would have never made it back in Medieval and Renaissance England, where archery practice was mandatory...
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Wow. You and irrigation systems just hate each other, don't you?
We have a complicated relationship. :laugh:
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Even firearms target backstops are called butts. I "worked the butts" at high-power rifle matches.
Go ahead, giggle if you must.
Some rock formations are also called butts.
(https://c8.alamy.com/comp/S1H3TW/a-funny-rock-formation-that-looks-like-a-human-butt-in-goblin-valley-S1H3TW.jpg) (https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bXp36QxO_ys/WMDIXbvfhAI/AAAAAAAAKXY/IdENuyR07vI-ojksx4EGPInS8TguhT9CACLcB/s1600/IMG_0146niksmall.jpg)
(First time I worked the butts, I wondered how come everybody was wearing hearing protection. When the first round came over, I understood why. CRACK!.... boom.)
How far behind the targets was that drainpipe and the arrow? Seems unlikely to have retained enough energy to penetrate that pipe that way with a target pile. Just interested in the probabilities involved.
Terry, 230RN
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We have a complicated relationship. :laugh:
So... it's more of an irritation system...
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So... it's more of an irritation system...
:rofl:
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So... it's more of an irritation system...
I award you all the points. :rofl: