Ok.....the long timers know what i am saying. New guys....listen up. I like to play. Not much on competition except against a target. I call them stupid shots because the name is catchy. I love to rove and stump shoot while running Fred. Shooting at that dandelion is fun, at 47 yards it is fun(ner). At 47 yards, with brush in the way is better. At 47 yards with brush or trees not only in the way, but half or more the way to the target is better yet. Calling the deflection off a tree into the target is downright....well....stupid ! And loads of fun.
Start with fun, work up to funner, then....maybe...get stupid.
Just....keep it safe.
In Iowa they do not allow skeet and target shooting with guns, but the game wardens have often seen us plinking with judo points comind in and out. Last year, I took a long shot, over 55 yards at a corn cob along a picked field. I must have been two feet above it, if I would have gauged my aim. To my amazement the judo arrow jumped up and back about ten feet. I found that I just had killed an ancient brick. I was so proud of that shot that wanted to tag it and hang it on my wall.
Ohio doesn't allow target shooting of any kind on public land, except at the official ranges. This includes roving (I checked with Fish & Game). I foound out that I had been breaking the law for a number of years....
I was on today.
The shot to be recounted was not mine, but I stood witness: A couple weeks ago my daughter and I went to our local shoot. We walked the course with my friend Dan. He was having a particularly good day, which will become obvious as I describe his best shot of the day...
He took his position at the stake, settled himself, drew his bow and shot. The arrow glanced off one tree no where in line with the target, then off another, and then landed with a foamy clunk in the 3D deer.
As we approached the target to record the score and remove the arrows it could be seen that his wayward arrow had landed solidly within the 8 ring. Dan went on to win the senior division for the day having spent all his luck, and mine I expect, on that shot.
I use to, before every joint in my body hurt, play tennis. As a result i have a bunch of old tennis rackets hanging here and there gathering dust. The only use I have for tennis rackets is when we got bats in the house, the gaurd slipped on the chimney. Don't waste good arrows shooting at bats idoors. The other part, I have lots of old tennis balls, now that is a completely diiferent deal. Mowed alfalfa fields and tennis balls just seem to be a perfect match, as long as you have a bunch of judo points and someone with a good throwing arm. I don't know if we learned anything by trying to hit a bouncing tennis ball, but it sure was a party.
Well, don't know if the 103 yard shot we have at the range would qualify or the angle shots we take but because of the amount of arrows lost, broken, cut in half by another arrow they qualify for me as dumb but fun.
Couldn't agree more Chuck! The only problem is I sure go through the stumpn arrows. Down to 4 and a few flu flues. Got to get busy building some more.