Target Archers have no sense of adventure?!!

[Fox]

Iain, Leave em alone, they dont know what they are missing, why invite them into the club

Think of the problems you would have trying to even get 'em round the course.lol

By the way, have you received my entry? Bigbird has booked me in so she said?

[Macbow]

I used to think the same as Swaledale and couldn't understand why almost none of the target archers I know wanted to try field despite so many offers to give it a go. When I managed to drag some along to the course they brought their worst arrows (scared of loss & breakage) and none of them ever came back. I was disappointed in them initially but realise it is just different strokes for different folks. I hate being indoors so field archery naturally appeals to me. I wish I had the mental discipline to be able to shoot 20m all night.

[pelican]

I could never see the attraction of field, but when Dalmore ran a shoot, got dragged along, unwillingly I must add, and found it was really good fun. I couldn't quite get my head round the one arrow then walk forward targets, blooming difficult! I was teamed up with experienced field archers who were great at giving me tips. I now have a score for a stamp round, and am looking forward to beating it next time.

Won't change allegiance, target is still my thing, but it was good to give it a go. I would never say one was "better" than the other, they're just different.

[Murray]

Why does there always seem to be a swing towards finding "them and us" argments in our sport?

I've tried field, and certainly enjoyed it... just spent so much time competing in target that I don't have time to compete in Field too. Field is, IMO a more complex game - more technically challenging and requires a wider range of skills.
Upsides to field - More challenge. More interesting surroundings. Can be more physically demanding.
Downsides to field - No tent! Disparate organisations and rules. Less accessible for those who are not able bodied.

All IMHO!

[Thunk]

As has been sais before in this thread, there is no 'better' - different disciplines in archery are just that - 'different'. What is important is that we are all archers, and we should recognise that in that description there is far more to unite us than contained in the divisions between our various disciplines.

I haven't tried field - not that I wouldn't like to, but the only field shoot held near me is the annual animal round on Box Hill. I realise that I'm probably a bit strange here, but I would never shoot at a live animal and find it difficult to square that with 'pretending' to shoot animals (ie, shoot at pictorial representations or 3D models).

Field, for those who don't participate, is confusing - there are too many organisations doing different sorts of shoot (or even the same sort of shoot with different rules?) and that seems to put some people off. I have long thought that archery as a whole would benefit immensely from having ONE national body to speak for us all...

One thing that is missing from competitive archery is an archery equivalent of the triathlon - shoot a target round, then straight into the woods, and when you've done that, a clout round - or maybe flight...

If you won a tournament like that, you could really call yourself a champion archer!

[Jerry Tee]

I think that the original assertion that target archers do the same thing at different venues is flawed. Every field is different the wind patterns and eddies change,And not all fields are flat.

[Random_guy]

Originally Posted by Thunk

One thing that is missing from competitive archery is an archery equivalent of the triathlon - shoot a target round, then straight into the woods, and when you've done that, a clout round - or maybe flight...

If you won a tournament like that, you could really call yourself a champion archer!

Its not missing, it's on Skye! The Skye week archery tournament is a double clout, a double field round, and a double FITA. The winner is the one the with the best overall score!

I did it this year, it was my first taste of field. I thoroughly enjoyed the field round, although it's difficult to find a measure of how well you're shooting on a field round, as you can never tell whether you shot a bad shot and that caused it not to go in the gold, or whether your sightmark was wrong, whether you didn't account for the slope....etc.

[Thunk]

Originally Posted by Random_guy

Its not missing, it's on Skye! The Skye week archery tournament is a double clout, a double field round, and a double FITA. The winner is the one the with the best overall score!

I did it this year, it was my first taste of field. I thoroughly enjoyed the field round, although it's difficult to find a measure of how well you're shooting on a field round, as you can never tell whether you shot a bad shot and that caused it not to go in the gold, or whether your sightmark was wrong, whether you didn't account for the slope....etc.

Just goes to show - the hardest thing in the world to create is - a new idea! I'd like to try that sometime - is the field round an animal round?

[pelican]

The field element on Skye isn't an animal round.

I've not been up, but Cal and Peter have gone twice and really enjoy it. I quite fancy doing it but I'd have to use a weeks holiday, and given I have to use holidays to take time for other competitions, it's a no-no for me. The way I see it, the guys in Skye, me at home in a tidy house, peace for a week, fantastic!

[NoAngel]

Originally Posted by Thunk

I realise that I'm probably a bit strange here, but I would never shoot at a live animal and find it difficult to square that with 'pretending' to shoot animals.

Not at all thunk, I think its totally barbaric to hunt, shoot or kill any animal in the name of sport, how is sporting???

Why not just use a picture/model of a human, oh because that’s seen to be politically incorrect. If we are not shooting to kill, then surely it doesn't make any different when target is shot at, unless people like the idea of killing?

But that’s not what’s being ask here, I am just going off on one.