Archery and Target shooting.

phantom_lord

I went turned up for a bit of archery training today in college, did pretty well for my first time, so I'm guessing there;s a fair bit of transferable skills. Just wondering if any other shooters did a bit of cross training?

Would achery practice help my shooting at all?

Umiq88

Might improve your breathing and relaxing your body before taking a shot not sure about what else

Sparks

One of the mods on the Archery forum here is a very good air pistol shooter in Wilkinstown. Something about holding a 100lb bow at full extension making the air pistol hold seem simple by comparison

Tried the olympic archery stuff once. Similar to olympic shooting in many ways - the same mental attitude, the same "gosh that doesn't look like a bow!" response to the gear, the same cost for the gear , the same lack of clubs , and the same buzz from a good shot

I don't think too many technical skills transfer though.

phantom_lord

psittacosis wrote:

Might improve your breathing and relaxing your body before taking a shot not sure about what else

I think I was the only person thinking of zero position and follow through. Maybe that's the bulk of the transterable skills/

bullets

I bought a compound bow years ago and someone dry-fired it fecking up
the pully system. I never fired it at targets afterwards and never got it looked
at. I was also told it was missing a small bit from it so for safety reasons
its been gathering dust in a corner.

One of my hobbies is Classical Fencing (foil/rapier/epee) the bloke
that teaches me also is Mad into Field Archery. I tried it a while back
and I was total and utter crap!!!! But yer man told me it was becuase
the arrows were not the propper arrows for the bow. Different stiffness and length.

When I was in the FCA I was one of the best at shooting in my group so I was bitterly
disappointed when none of my Arrows were hitting the target even when I
was aiming upto two targets to the right and high to compensate to where
they did hit. Even more alarming was I was at an open day to the public
to promote the sport and there was 5 years old picking up the junior bows
and hitting the bull every time!

It may depend on the person but none of my skills transferred over when
trying archery!! :-(

~B

Clare gunner

Tried Bow hunting once.If there is a crossover of skills it is in stalking and cammo.Was crap at it,due to the later discoverd fact I was using a right handed bow and am left handed.:o

Umiq88

I remember trying it and couldn't hit the target let alone the bull till i realised all the arrows were going pretty much the same direction so..... aimed 4ft to the right and 2ft down and was hiting the target i dunno what was going on i was aiming well off the target but was getting consistant bulls

I wouldnt expect someone who is good at shooting to be good at archery or vise versa althought they're alike theres alot of different skills involved.

Renegade_Archer

I've been an archer for ten years now, and took up airpistol shooting a while back - found the mental skills transferred very well, was able to centre myself and control the breathing - aiming also came easy to me.