Idiot Proof Archery: How to Shoot Like a Pro........
One of the best archery bow hunting books available for the hunter or competition shooter. Full of concepts and information to improve form and accuracy.
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November 16th, 2009
Good Way to Get Started With archery?
I am a freshman in high school, and have always been extremely interested in archery. I was looking around the web for where to get started. What should I do first, should I get a recurve or compound bow, how much should I spend, and what are the different types of archery?
Best thing to do is go here if you’re in the US, www.usarchery.org. Click on Directory Search and click on your state. See if there’s a range near you, some ranges offer free lesson for beginners and free equipment. Our ranges here in Los Angeles, provide free equipment that you can use pretty much forever, until you buy your equipment, you die or the range is shutdown. So it’s pretty much the cheapest sport there is, and safe to boot.
For starter I would also say recurve, although for a different reason than what Bryan said. When you learn on a recurve, the bow will dictate your form, use good form or you won’t see result. Compound Bows will let you hold the bow anyway you want to and will still give you result. It is a lot easier with a compound bow, so easy that you can develop a lot of bad habits without knowing it. So, looking to the future, a recurve shooter can usually switch to a compound with no problems, but a compound shooter usually can’t switch to a recurve without having to start from scratch.
There are many forms of archery, under target archery you have:
- FITA, this is the stuff they do at the Olympics
- Field, this is where you shoot at paper targets at unknown distances, sometimes up hill, down ravines, over creeks etc.
- 3D, this is where you shoot at foam animals
Then you have hunting, run archery, ski archery, archery golf(only in certain areas), Clout archery, Flight archery etc.
If there are no ranges in your area, then try to find an archery store. Some stores have indoor ranges, and they also let you rent equipment. Try it out first, then decide to buy. Most likely there are other archers there at the range, most will let you try their bow, just ask first.
A decent beginner bow, is the Bullseye, they go for about $90-$100. These are wood bows with fiberglass laminate, durable, and shoots much better than pure fiberglass bows.
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