My gosh that’s fun! Archery’s changed a bit in 50 years. Commie compound bows were just coming onto the scene when I left. With sights, the ‘let off’, tuned bows, balanced arrows, you can be a pretty darn good shot with a compound. And frankly, that would probably be best to kill animals as humanely as possible.

But for just dinking around, traditional is a hoot and a holler. I can now (again) hit a 15 inch cube target at 30 yards (probably longer actually. I still don’t know how I aim. I think they call it “instinctual” shooting. Once you figure out a few things, like your screw in point can’t be any larger in diameter than your arrow (if you want to be able to pull it out of the backstop).

And that you should skip the target that if you miss it goes over an 80 foot ravine. And that yes you need the forearm guard. Yeah once you get a couple a kinks worked out, there’s not much more fun you can have then that. And as I was alluding to, there ain’t no damn arrow shortage! And you don’t have to clean your bow every time you shoot! And you get to reuse your arrows over, and over, and over! Screw you Remington, Winchester and Federal!

Oh, and they always tell you, “Don’t get too heavy of a draw weight!” What’s bad advice about that, is that within a couple of weeks your muscles get used to the motion, and you’ve already outgrown your brand new bow! Better to grow into one than grow out of it.