Everyone’s talking about it

By Pablo | Posted in archery
November 14th, 2006

While Sam and the American Bushman talk about muzzle loading rifles, unbelievably at the same time, my attention has also switched to all things missile-firing, but in a more primitive way. Must be a winter thing when the ground is too soggy to camp. I have renewed my interest in archery and in particular field archery (as opposed to target shooting). I started up archery about this time last year and got caught up in the wave of excitement of seeing the arrow thud satisfactorily into the target.

After a while, I was pretty consistently getting close to the ‘gold’ at 25 yards. I instantly upgraded the bow and started hanging stuff off it in the form of sights and stabilisers. Not exactly what I planned when I first took it up, which was to use the bow as a means of recreating a traditional hunting method. I soon regretted the decision as it became a bit of a chore travelling to the archery club every week and once there, queuing for your turn to shoot at the target. I lost more interest as the fascination with bushcraft grew during the summer months.

I’ve now rekindled this interest and bought a Korean traditional hunter bow, a Samick SKB, which is light enough to carry around on field shoots and practice in the woods (errr…not the public woods obviously). I’ll be shooting strictly in the ‘bare-bow’ category on the next field shoot on 26th. Last autumn’s shoot was my first and I enjoyed it immensely. Unfortunately, I missed the spring and summer ones. These particular field shoots are made more interesting by the inclusion of 35 x 3D animal targets. The fact that actual hunting with a bow is illegal in Britain makes these shoots the nearest thing to it, even if the animal doesn’t move around! (I don’t believe there’s many crocodiles in Essex either).

3 Responses to "Everyone’s talking about it"

  1. Mungo says:

    Wow, in Ontario Canada here we get the occasional deer, moose and bear, but NEVER have I seen an alligator trolling around the woods. I was born in Yorkshire, and I seem to remember hippos and tigers, but again, no alligators. Amazing. :-)

  2. Pablo says:

    Alligator? Could have sworn it was a croc.

  3. American Bushman says:

    Fantastic. Traditional (Primitive) archery will be the next skill I attempt.

    I once learned to shoot the bow in the Scouts but there’s been an awful lot of water under the bridge since then.

    Still don’t know if I’d take it out hunting the big reptiles though. ;)

    B

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