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Originally Posted by NeilM I would absolutely dispute the fact than ANY NFAS club is " less safety conscious" than any other archery club. That is an irresponsible generalisation.
EB, if you have seen any unsafe practices at a NFAS club or shoot, then it should have been brought to the attention of either club or shoot officials. NFAS has a defined set of Safety Rules, which apply to every member, whenever and wherever they are shooting.
Big John, EFAA shoot marked / known distances, and also tend to shoot to longer maximum distances than NFAS (bit of a generalisation).
I would tend to look at both NFAS and EFAA web sites and find local clubs to visit. Many field archers shoot in both organisations. |
Sorry I didn't mean to cause offence, and I agree it is a generalisation, but one based on experiance.
I know someone who was nearly shot by an
NFAS member decide to go "roving" because he was bored of the shoot. (He was thrown out, but I have never heard of this happening on a
GNAS shoot.)
The times I have been uncomfortable about course layouts have been on
NFAS courses, not
GNAS
The only instance I know of someone being shot was at an
NFAS course. It was a child that shot an adult who was forward of the peg and should have known better, and it wasn't a serious injury, but again I haven't heard of this happening at a
GNAS shoot
And finally more
NFAS archers than
GNAS wear camo. Not a bright choice when walking around a woods full of people with lethal weapons!
Now I don't want to sound like I think that all
NFAS archers have no regard for safety, as that is plainly not the case, but, I do think that if there are "problem archers" then they are more likely to join
NFAS than
GNAS because of the reletive lack of rules and the fact that
GNAS prefer roundels whereas
NFAS shoot animal faces and 3Ds. I know that these archers are a very small minority and they are weeded out when they show their colours, but as a friend of mine found out, that could easily have been too late. (The arrow hit a tree about 3' from where he was standing waiting to shoot!)
As I said. I don't think that
NFAS are dangerous, or I would have never shot with them, (more than once!) but I do think that
GNAS are stricter on safety based on my own experiances.
Daniel