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The Tolls of Teaching Archery
« on: May 13, 2023, 05:47:55 PM »
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:

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Re: The Tolls of Teaching Archery
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2023, 06:41:42 PM »
Given the nature of arrows wanting to glance to the side of round objects that's quite an unlikely hit. 
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Re: The Tolls of Teaching Archery
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2023, 06:47:54 PM »
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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Re: The Tolls of Teaching Archery
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2023, 07:09:21 PM »
Pretty steep angle, was the target in the sky?
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Re: The Tolls of Teaching Archery
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2023, 07:21:39 PM »
Uh, I lifted it so it would be easier to see. It was buried under dead veg before that.  =)
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Re: The Tolls of Teaching Archery
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2023, 08:26:56 PM »
Ok, That makes sense. Carry on...
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Re: The Tolls of Teaching Archery
« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2023, 09:56:38 AM »
I’m guessing field points. Target point (bullet shape) would be a lot less likely to stick like that.
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Re: The Tolls of Teaching Archery
« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2023, 10:08:46 AM »
I’m guessing field points. Target point (bullet shape) would be a lot less likely to stick like that.

Whatever you call these ones:

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Re: The Tolls of Teaching Archery
« Reply #8 on: May 14, 2023, 11:28:59 AM »
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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« Reply #9 on: May 14, 2023, 11:31:11 AM »
They will stick in target butt just fine

Well that's good to know  :rofl:
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Re: The Tolls of Teaching Archery
« Reply #10 on: May 14, 2023, 11:32:56 AM »
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Re: The Tolls of Teaching Archery
« Reply #11 on: May 14, 2023, 11:36:46 AM »
Okay, never heard of them. But I've never gotten into archery
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Re: The Tolls of Teaching Archery
« Reply #12 on: May 14, 2023, 12:05:20 PM »
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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Re: The Tolls of Teaching Archery
« Reply #13 on: May 14, 2023, 12:35:43 PM »
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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Re: The Tolls of Teaching Archery
« Reply #14 on: May 14, 2023, 01:06:23 PM »
Wow. You and irrigation systems just hate each other, don't you?
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Re: The Tolls of Teaching Archery
« Reply #15 on: May 14, 2023, 01:09:46 PM »
And wow... you clowns would have never made it back in Medieval and Renaissance England, where archery practice was mandatory...
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« Reply #16 on: May 14, 2023, 01:22:09 PM »
Wow. You and irrigation systems just hate each other, don't you?

We have a complicated relationship.  :laugh:
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Re: The Tolls of Teaching Archery
« Reply #17 on: May 14, 2023, 02:58:14 PM »
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.

  

(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.

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Re: The Tolls of Teaching Archery
« Reply #18 on: May 14, 2023, 04:59:13 PM »
We have a complicated relationship.  :laugh:

So... it's more of an irritation system...
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Re: The Tolls of Teaching Archery
« Reply #19 on: May 14, 2023, 05:22:47 PM »
So... it's more of an irritation system...

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Re: The Tolls of Teaching Archery
« Reply #20 on: May 17, 2023, 04:44:14 AM »
So... it's more of an irritation system...

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