Looking at it from the other side....
Shooting at 20yds indoors, arrow after arrow isn't for me - yes it was good practice for some things but that's all. Quite frankly I found it boring (other than it was an opportunity to shoot and to improve/learn). If that's what people want to do (or stand in line across a field and do the same thing) then fine, that's their choice. May they enjoy it, may they score well.
For me, I'm happier in the woods - whether field, hunter, forrester of big game faces (yes, it might be 4 different faces and therefore 4 different "rounds" but is that really any different from a Hereford/York/Portsmouth/Worcester/American/FITA/etc....? I'd think not - a round is a round, surely?).
Shoot, and enjoy it, whatever you shoot. If the chance arises, then try something different, but that's all it is, different - not better.
As for closeness, my nearest club (about 4 miles) is our Field club - the nearest Target club is a fair bit further.
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Originally Posted by NoAngel  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. |
Yes, my favourite round is big game (which I've shot under EFAA and
NFAS rules, so both marked and unmarked). Yes, it's pictures of animals, but that doesn't mean I want to wander the woods shooting at real ones - far from it! Like you NoAngel the idea is abhorrent to me (and to most Field Archers in this country I'd think). I think it's fair to say that most field archers would NEVER hunt live game. That's not why we shoot field, nor is it what we're imagining when we do.
Political Correctness? A few years ago we had animal faces out at the local showground for a pay-and-shoot. Someone complained
so we replaced them - and one of the replacements was a military-style "enemy soldier". There were NO complaints - seems pictures of people are OK to shoot at but pictures of animals are not.....
A target is a target, whether it's big game, 3D or a FITA face. Shoot it, enjoy it, yes have a crack at another discipline if you fancy it, but above all - enjoy!