Primitive Archer

Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: islandpiper on October 06, 2008, 06:30:04 pm

Title: Archery is good excercise!!
Post by: islandpiper on October 06, 2008, 06:30:04 pm
My wife has been after me to walk more.   Well, an old buddy gave me one arrow today, so that's better than yesterday, when I didn't have any!   So, here's the drill: 

Shoot arrow

Walk to retrieve arrow

Walk Back

Shoot arrow

Repeat several dozen times. 

My Wife's gonna love this new hobby of mine. 

Piper
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Post by: ZanderPommo on October 06, 2008, 06:42:42 pm
try flight shooting! ;)

Zander
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Post by: Kegan on October 06, 2008, 09:22:51 pm
Shoot at 60 yards 15 times, and you'll have walked over a mile. Shooting a 50# bow, and you'll have lifted over 700# in "weight".

Archery is defiantely good exercise ;D!
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Post by: ballista on October 06, 2008, 11:39:49 pm
haha! try javelin too ;D
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Post by: Young Viking on October 07, 2008, 05:39:55 pm
Don't forget shotput!!!
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Post by: stiknstring on October 07, 2008, 07:12:20 pm
Caber tossing is good exercise....but I have to be honest there is a lot to be said for grabbing a quiver full of blunts and walking up and down mountains chasing pinecones, cans, and the occasional rabbit... ;D
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Post by: sailordad on October 07, 2008, 07:14:03 pm
i know another good form of excersize, just cant discuss it hear cause this is a family friendly site >:D
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Post by: D. Tiller on October 07, 2008, 07:41:31 pm
Atl-atl?
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Post by: ZanderPommo on October 07, 2008, 08:04:47 pm
 :D :D :D
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Post by: JW_Halverson on October 08, 2008, 10:42:50 am
I tried golf as excercise...all I excercised was my vocabulary!  Golf is just the word "flog" spelled backwards as far as I can tell. 

Now I hear some folks on the west coast play a form of archery golf....hmmm, lemme see, longbow for a driver, then a shorter flatbow for chipping, and a Lakota horsebow for the putt.  Oh yeah, I gotta try this!
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Post by: JackCrafty on October 08, 2008, 11:49:00 am
I don't even have to be shooting to get good exercise from archery practice......"Daddy, can you go get the arrows?" ;D

I just can't help myself.
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Post by: Bowbound on October 08, 2008, 12:27:44 pm
i know another good form of excersize, just cant discuss it hear cause this is a family friendly site >:D
No you can talk about archery.

 ;) :D :D
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Post by: ballista on October 08, 2008, 11:10:48 pm
 haha, maybe take turns being moving targets, with rabbit blunts ;D ;D ;)
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Post by: sailordad on October 09, 2008, 12:53:03 am
haha, maybe take turns being moving targets, with rabbit blunts ;D ;D ;)

i used to shoot blunts,out of my blow gun,at my kids and their friends. it was a blast and they seemed to like it too. go figure

                                                                       tim
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Post by: Kegan on October 09, 2008, 07:51:39 pm
Blunts hurt though ;D. Even a kid's bow, caught on the elbow, smarts pretty badly. Who'd have imagined that one?
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Post by: jamie on October 10, 2008, 08:31:49 am
archery is great if you only want to develop your left pec and delt and your right romboid and delt ;). i likes cabers and rocks. a great way to prepare for hunting season is to jog or run through the woods, then shoot run to the next target, shoot and so on. if you can shoot with your heart pumpin its just like what happens when that big ten pointer comes in. youll already have trained yourse;f to shoot under pressure, just like buck fever. just dont stare at the rack ;D
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Post by: triton on October 10, 2008, 10:06:01 am

Now I hear some folks on the west coast play a form of archery golf....
Golf was actually derived from the archery practice of roving marks.  wander around the coutryside, pick an object to shoot at and see who gets closest.  either shoot the next mark from there or rove a while until something catches your eye
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Post by: ballista on October 12, 2008, 12:01:07 am
haha- i wonder if golf was ever used in warfare... pretty far ff topic, my bad ;D
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Post by: triton on October 12, 2008, 04:31:09 am
Golf is a game played by men with small balls ;D but if they were grenades  :D
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Post by: ballista on October 13, 2008, 01:37:17 pm
haha- the scottish golfing batallion: earilest form aof carpet bombing ;D