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Originally Posted by andrew.paterson  In view of the great weather we are having at the moment another time killer can be arrows in the grass.
We all miss, or we will miss at some time for whatever reason - archer or equipment. Sometimes though too much time is spent looking for the lost arrows. Surely misses can be searched for during the breaks in shooting? I know I would prefer to do that if I had a lost arrow. At a shoot I was at recently we had to wait over 10 minutes for someone to find an arrow, because they didn't have any spares!!! Come on archers if you are going to tournaments at least take enough kit with you for goodness sake. |
I was at the same shoot, as you know. The time to look for arrows after sighters was absolutely excessive. I have no idea whey the judges let it go on that long. If someone had no spare arrows then they really should have been left to shoot with 5. What happens if they had a bouncer...?
It must be said that the people in charge of the metal detectors were less than useful. Having had a miss at 50 yards (long story), they did not manage to find it in the next 6 ends. I had spares, and was quite happy to shoot on. In the end one of the members of the club we were shooting at took over on the detector and found it in minutes. (I had asked if I could have the detector, and would have found it as fast but that did not seem to meet with approval)
Having volunteer OTC (or something similar) helped in moving targets.... but having them waving metal dettectors 12 inches above the grounds, and laughing every time it went beep when they put it near each others boots did not help on a windy day.