Archery

I never thought of myself as the type to get into shooting a bow.  I always imagined it would be boring, repeative, and pointless.  Most of the guys at work though, are really into the damn thing, so after they kept asking me to go with them, I finally agreed to go.  I borrowed one of the guy’s wife’s bow, a top of the line model costing well over $1500, and was hooked at my first shot.  Sometimes my groupings were tight, sometimes they weren’t, but every shot seemed like it was fun, and I was concentrating more and more on hitting exactly dead center.  Two weeks after I first started shooting, I decided to get a bow myself.

Last night, I went up to Fairview,KS to an Archery Shop owned by one of my co-workers brother-in-law.  I’ve never really seen ‘downtown’ fairview, and it was damn depressing when I actually saw it.  I can’t imagine people being content and happy in small towns like these, but as far as bow shops go, the little quanit shop had me hooked.  Casey, the owner, gave me a sweet deal on a Mission bow, and I probably shot 200 shots in 4 hours while I was up there.

It wasn’t as accurate right off the back as the other bow I shot, and its a little more difficult for me to shoot, but I’m having fun with it.  For some reason, I tend to lurch when releasing, so my groups aren’t quite as tight, but as Casey showed me, it can put an arrow dead on target perfectly.  Once I learn how to shoot this specific bow, I should be having much more fun, and hope to eventually go to some of these 3D shoot I hear about at work.  My bow there would be bare minimum lowest, but I hardly think I would be too competative, and would be happy just to shoot for the fun of it.