Originally Posted by
CSM
I shoot mostly compound and occassionally recurve. I really am fascinated by precision shooting (love shooting airguns as in the Olympic events).
Precision shooting is great. As teenagers we Southern country boys had our own version of it in which we used 22 caliber rifles.
We would find a suitable tree or powerline pole , nail in a number of nails 4 or 5 inches apart leaving about a quarter inch of the nail head not driven in, then at a pre-decided distance , usually 20 to 25 yards we would shoot to drive the nail all the way in . Its even much harder than one would original think because hitting the head of the nail doesnt always drive it in unless its hit dead center! My young eyes were good back then(late 60's) and since we shot with the winner getting a pot of money(combined bets) each time a nail was driven in I often ended up with the equivalent of a couple day's pay for shooting an hour or so. Also if we were drinking beer(years later) , we would bet money on shooting beer botles at about the same distance but the trick was to shoot to top of the neck off without breaking the rest of the bottle! Hard to do unless one shoots the top one inch of the neck of the bottle. Also used to use the old coke bottle caps nailed to a tree as our targets but at a greater distance, bet money on hitting them too. Hell, I've been gambling on shooting since I was about 12 years old.
You shoot a recurve . What brand or is it custom made? My favorite recurve currently is the Bandito recurve made by Howatt Archery in the 70's! Baby shoots like a dream, smooooooth as silk! No hand shock at all. However I still prefer shooting my longbows.-Tyr
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