Proper Archery

[Lamp]

I'm going archery at the weekend. Not your modern fibreglass sports nonsense, but a traditional wooden hand-made yeoman's bow.

Anyone used one before ? They hard to pull back and keep steady ? I'd imagine they were bastards to use requiring quite some physical strength.

 

[Mojo]

I'm going archery at the weekend. Not your modern fibreglass sports nonsense, but a traditional wooden hand-made yeoman's bow.

Anyone used one before ? They hard to pull back and keep steady ? I'd imagine they were bastards to use requiring quite some physical strength.

They are hardwork, maybe they will give u smaller noobie ones?

 

[Imgormiel]

I'm going archery at the weekend. Not your modern fibreglass sports nonsense, but a traditional wooden hand-made yeoman's bow.

Anyone used one before ? They hard to pull back and keep steady ? I'd imagine they were bastards to use requiring quite some physical strength.

I have a friend who does go to an Archery club and from what he tells me, you are likely to get a training bow at first. The torsion weight (how hard the bow string is to pull) is usually calculated by your own Weight x Height x Armlength and thus the bow is tailor-made to that calculation so that you can hold the bow steadily while getting a good pull distance and range. In rare cases like bodybuilders, yeah I know it sounds weird bodybuilders being into Archery, that still happens just that the torsion weight is increased due to the last integer being more part of the equation than the rest. They usually measure it via a practice bow but in the latter case, that's done with weights as you would imagine, the body builder snapping the bow many times before getting the correct torsion weight for him/her. Tailor-made bows usually cost from around £700 to £1,300 depending on material etc and be wise about buying arrows if you want to take it up more seriously as you do want to reuse them so a little thought into what arrow types you want to use is also a plus

 

[Mey]

I've used an english longbow, really really nice!

Depands what the poundage on the bow is really.

The higher the poundage/draw length the harder its going to be to pull back.

 

[Lamp]

Isn't the traditional english longbow supposed to be the same height as the archer ?

 

[soze]

I'm going archery at the weekend. Not your modern fibreglass sports nonsense,

Thats seems silly. Like saying im going to play football but not this modern crap im gonna kill a animal and make a ball from its stomach!

I prefer modern bows my first try on a old bow i held it back for maybe 12 seconds and shot 6 arrows befor my arms ached. And wear gloves

 

[Lamp]

Thats seems silly. Like saying im going to play football but not this modern crap im gonna kill a animal and make a ball from its stomach!

I prefer modern bows my first try on a old bow i held it back for maybe 12 seconds and shot 6 arrows befor my arms ached. And wear gloves

I'm just an old-fashioned kinda guy

Gimme one of these:

to one of these monstrosities:

I mean cmon ! Its got more bits hanging off it than an 90 year old woman. Hardly even resembles a bow ! Sod it, might as well go the whole hog and use a shotgun for what its worth. Utterly pointless if you want to go for a REAL traditional longbow - which is what I'm paying for.

So ner.

 

[soze]

I'm just an old-fashioned kinda guy


I mean cmon ! Its got more bits hanging off it than an 90 year old woman. Hardly even resembles a bow ! Sod it, might as well go the whole hog and use a shotgun for what its worth. Utterly pointless if you want to go for a REAL traditional longbow - which is what I'm paying for.

So ner.

If thats what you like thats fine but most compettion archery is on modern bows because your normal guy will get faster and more accurate hits with a modern bow.

I hated Longbows when the day after i could not type as i skined my fingers

 

[Ormorof]

got a hunting bow at home that i bought while in kenya, lethal things (and suprisingly accurate considering they were hand made by the local bus driver )

 

[Lamp]

got a hunting bow at home that i bought while in kenya, lethal things (and suprisingly accurate considering they were hand made by the local bus driver )

post pic

 

[Rigga Mortice]

Used to shoot olympic recurve (the "monstrosity" as so eloquently put) competitively, but have also tried longbow and compound (the ones with the pulley systems):

My old recurve (Hoyt Elan magnesium alloy riser with carbon/foam limbs, not a spot of fibreglass in sight) had 44lb draw @ 29inch drawlength; Most longbows are anywhere from 25 up to 65 lbs draw-weight, but neither are particularly hard to draw. Of a bigger difference is the arrow, longbow arrows are made of solid pine/cedar/ash, where as modern arrows are carbon fibre/aluminium and can travel at around 315 fps.

You say you might as well use a shot gun... because of the weights and inertia involved, bullet proof glass isn't arrow proof class

 

[swords]

OMG, our Zerk is secretly a HUNTER IRL!

 

[Eregion]

Hmm, inspiring thread! Think I'll take my bad boy out tomorrow aswell. Just need to build a new target.
http://www.quicksarchery.co.uk/superbasket/images/products/qb54_s.jpg This was the most resembling pic I could find regarding it, but its pretty much the same. Bow strength is on 44 pounds, wouldn't mind a bit weaker bow since my fingers start to hurt quite badly after shooting for a while. Though 'heavy' power has its charm aswell.

Oh and if your new to the whole archery thing, make sure to use a leather bracer and something for the string fingers.

 

[Mojo]

Oh and if your new to the whole archery thing, make sure to use a leather bracer and something for the string fingers.

You can buy trigger devices for the bad boy composite bows now, I don't know their correct name though.

 

[Vae]

You can use release aids (trigger buttons which release a piece of string which loops around the string) in order to ensure a clean release but these are only legal in competition on the Compound bows.

Personally I shoot one of the monstrosities in competitions.

Regarding the longbows some of the higher poundage ones (which are similar poundage to the originals) go up to 80 or 100lbs. You can't hold and aim them at full draw as they're so high poundage, so you draw halfway back while aiming then have to yank and release the remainder.

If you want further info or have questions can I recommend Archery Interchange UK which is a relatively new archery website (been going just under 2 years I think) which serves as a discussion forum and they also organise shoots around the country.

 

[tris-]

lol lamp is there anything you dont do?!

 

[Ezteq]

aw i love archery, damn my bloody bf though he went and got a x bow sooo crap theres no finesse to one of those things its just point and shoot (and miss in his case lol) i would love to join a club but i cant find any near me.

have a good time and get some vaselene for your poor lil fingies afterwards theyre going to need some attention lol