| Oh dear Swaledale, O'h dear!
I can see where you are coming from having done the majority of my archery "in the field" so to speak. But to say target archery is any lesser of a challenge is I'm afraid too sweeping a statement. In archery their are different challenges. Afterall, the name of the game in target archery is to get all of your arrows "clustered in the custard" but you try doing that down here in the South West when those good old Westerlies are a blowin in all the way from America. To get one arrow in the gold is the ulimate challenge. Field is a very different challenge, but that to depends on whose society rules you shoot under. For me the ultimate challenge in field archery is to place an arrow exactly where you want it to go, say on an NFAS 3D and say 52 mts, where the drop on the animal is only 1 mt! and you are shooting a cross slope either up or down hill. That kind of shot and the execution thereof stays with you for years and years, unlike the shots you make in target archery which tend to become just one of all the same. I have done target archery and have been very successful at it, and for me it's field archery, but because the target archers do not get "the call" for field, do not assume that THEIR archery (target) is any less of a challenge to them. But, I know where you are coming from.  |