Anyone into Archery?

[stephec]

I've just done a six lesson beginners course at a club near me with my kids, and it looks like they want to keep it up so that's more equipment buying for me.

Anyone else here do it?

 

[Kingfisher101]

No but a friends wife used to do it.
Surely if you have joined a club you shouldn't need to start buying stuff? they will have equipment to loan out?

 

[Drago]

Not personally, but I know a chap who's well intomit, even makes his own longbow.

 

[dicko]

I’d like to be but my back garden won’t let me.
Ohh hang about there’s one twelve miles from me, 24 minutes, in Burton-on-Trent now there’s a thought for next year. Great thread got me interested now.

 

[Illaveago]

I've just done a six lesson beginners course at a club near me with my kids, and it looks like they want to keep it up so that's more equipment buying for me.

Anyone else here do it?

No but we a had a couple of taster sessions at our Men's Shed and it was fun . A friend has now taken it up .

 

[Illaveago]

It was a bit of fun ! Your first couple of shots are just guess work ! You try to find out where you are aiming and adjust to it and then one goes way off and you wonder what happened!

 

[Bazzer]

@Milkfloat ?

 

[PeteXXX]

I have a 90lb draw-weight longbow and arrows that I fletched myself.

Also, tucked away in the shed is my Compound bow.

 

[Punkawallah]

Yup. Hungarian horse bow (easier to manoeuvre in the wild). Most suppliers had ‘beginners sets’ you could pick up at a reasonable cost, don’t know about currently.
Archery is consistency. Do the same thing every time, the same way, until the arrows land in the same place (wherever that is). Only then worry about hitting the target. The advantage of a club is that you’ll have help with avoiding obvious errors.
Good luck!

 

[numbnuts]

A few years back I thought about it, but found out there was a two years waiting list to join my local club, so didn't bother.

 

[stephec]

No but a friends wife used to do it.
Surely if you have joined a club you shouldn't need to start buying stuff? they will have equipment to loan out?

For the beginner's course there's a set of bows to use, but once that's done people buy their own.

The club is part of a shop that's in an old mill so they've got an indoor range where they'll spend an hour with you trying stuff out to make sure everything fits, I could probably save £100 by buying a kit online but then without any advice it could end up costing me more in the long run.

 

[stephec]

I have a 90lb draw-weight longbow and arrows that I fletched myself.

Also, tucked away in the shed is my Compound bow.

I watched a bloke with a compound on Saturday morning, I wouldn't want to get in the way of one of those. 😊

 

[PeteXXX]

I watched a bloke with a compound on Saturday morning, I wouldn't want to get in the way of one of those. 😊

My Compound is 150lb draw wieght.. It'll pierce an old hubcap (remember them!?) if a Bodkin is used.

 

[dicko]

Thanks to this thread I have contacted my local Archery club and am looking forward to a taster session in the spring.
They have an indoor range too in a local school.

 

[welsh dragon]

We were going to buy a compound bow, but they are trickier to use and re string etc.

We are thinking of buying a re-curve bow instead. There are quite a few reasonably priced ones. We have plenty of land so there won't be a problem.