Archery

[alfsauve]

I'm a little slow in getting to my DVR'd shows.  SG was an interesting tactical show with the AR platform.

But as I feared, another show has started including archery.   Now I like archery.  Nothing against it, but to me a "shooting" show talks about things that go "boom", not things that go "twang-swish".  I understand that archery was the original form of shooting and I enjoyed the show about the high school archery program.   I understand that archery may be the conduit with which we initially interest new "shooters".

My 2 cents is that archery deserves a show of it's own.  Sureyly there's enough material about archery to at least fill 30min a week. And, just as surely there's enough material about "guns" to fill up the time slots for SG, CBs, G&A, SUSA, SIwSUSA, and AR without doing archery, discus, boomerangs and spears.    I'd even watch a good archery show.   I understand very little about compound bows and would like to learn more.  I really admire the long-bow and re-curve bow shooters.  But they don't belong on a "shooting shows".   (Does Jim S. read DRTV?)

[MikeBjerum]

Hey, I've defended the other guys for their archery shows in the past and will do so again.

Our club brought Archery in the Schools into our local community, and it is the best thing we did.  It gets a younger group of kids involved in a shooting sport that their parents aren't afraid of.  After three years we are getting these families asking us about airgun shooting, smallbore, trap, and over 75% of the kids that get the archery training are taking firearm safety.

Archery looks to be the lever we can use to reopen the door to shooting sports in our community, and I will do nothing to shove it in the back corner!

[sanjuancb]

I'm a pure-blood longbow and am completely for archery anywhere! There is something extremely gratifying about the simple bent stick!

[alfsauve]

I'm not putting down archery or archery shows.   I tune into Shooting Gallery and other "shooting" shows to watch things go "bang".   I'll watch a good archery show, I just think it needs to be a separate show.

[TAB]

The prob is most archery shows are tuned towards bow hunting... thats great and all, but I don't want to go bow hunting.  To me waiting for a critter to come to you is BORING...  If I want to shoot something I'll go to the range...

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[MikeBjerum]

The prob is most archery shows are tuned towards bow hunting... thats great and all, but I don't want to go bow hunting.  To me waiting for a critter to come to you is BORING...  If I want to shoot something I'll go to the range...

That is what I like about Shooting USA and Sighting In putting on archery.  In their shows they treat archery just like any of the other shooting sports.

I enjoy bowhunting myself because I like being outdoors.  However, if I want to see the outdoors and the animals I am going to go do it myself and not watch someone else on tv do it.

[alfsauve]

That is what I like about Shooting USA and Sighting In putting on archery. 

See it takes all kinds.   I'd rather they develop a separate show for archery and M58 likes them mixed together.

Is this a great country or what?

[MikeBjerum]

See it takes all kinds.   I'd rather they develop a separate show for archery and M58 likes them mixed together.

Is this a great country or what?

Oh SEE  IT  MY  WAY  OR  SHUT  THE  F***  UP 

Yup, can't beat freedom of speech.

[m25operator]

In the SUSA shows, they have one guy for maybe 5 minutes, and he is the best archer I have ever seen that still lives. That is Byron Ferguson, his impossible shots, are more impressive than all the others, nothing tricky, a long bow, no sights, no mechanical release, just the Zen of the arrow, if it was more than 5 minutes, then I would probably want a separate show. But he is a SHOOTER. I think his segment, which is not every week, is a good contrast to the rest. BobMundens 200 yard balloon shot was impressive, but Byrons matching shot, where he is incapable of aiming, as the azimuth is so profound, is at least equal.

Sorry to say, after tonight, We might all get better with stick and string

I got my hopes up, and decided not to watch any of the return stuff on the boob tube, just hang out here with you guys, and gals.

[alfsauve]

Sorry to say, after tonight, We might all get better with stick and string

Uh what makes you think cross bows, broad heads and "armor piercing arrows" aren't on the agenda of those who would protect us from ourselves?   Archers had better not believe they'll be excluded from control, eventually down the line.