Whos job is it?

[avalon]

Originally Posted by grimsby archer

You dont think maybe its you/your arrows/your bow that's at fault?
Perhaps there is a market for a "boss distressing" service.
You order new bosses, send them to me, I shoot 1000 arrows at them and return them to you as "conditioned"

I shoot 30lb on my fingers, ACE arrows, out of reasonably old limbs, so compared to the average archer my arrows should just glide back out of the target (or bounce out from the boss at Thirsk ), so if my equipment is causing a problem, I hate to think what virtually every other archer on the line encounters when they shoot at one of these bosses

conditioned bosses would be great where do we sign up??

[simon m]

what wrong with a soft boss with a back stop net or nappy as I refer to them on it?.

Buy ten danage backstop net squares & go to your local butcher & buy some small meat hooks, a trip to b&q for shock cord & bobs your uncle a back stop net covering the area that passthroughs occur.

New bosses HAVE to be shot in, so someone gonna get the heart ache & back ache of pulling from a tight resin filled monstrosity, plus with arrow speeds from recurves & compound as high as they are "resin welding" will occur.

[english_archer]

Is it my imagination or are we 4 pages in and nobody has mentioned "arrow lube" yet ? It makes mine easer to pull even on hard bosses

[napolienne]

Originally Posted by Yorker

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If you are disabled then you need a friend to get you to the competition if you are in a wheelchair anyway ...

Erm, I think not. Depends on the type and severity of disability. Try telling someone like Rob Anderson they need a driver...

[Shirley]

Originally Posted by napolienne

Erm, I think not. Depends on the type and severity of disability. Try telling someone like Rob Anderson they need a driver...

Just what I was thinking He would certainly tell you to **** off.

[bimble]

We once tried some teflon spray on my arrows in uni... and then we couldn't get them out of the boss cause the teflon spread and we couldn't grip the arrow!! (yes, we had hoped to shoot through the boss)

Originally Posted by english_archer

Is it my imagination or are we 4 pages in and nobody has mentioned "arrow lube" yet ? It makes mine easer to pull even on hard bosses

No, because arrows tend to have better penitration than most small caliber guns. I saw on you-tube some guys shooting at one of those jelly blocks and they were getting shoot-throughs (at close range)

Originally Posted by spavo

I've been thinking has anyone seen CSI when they shoot builts in to Jelly, well could something like that be done as a target?

[Mistake]

Shooting 40+lbs is not that comman in a uni club, but people havn't had an issue pulling mine out (soft bosses) but any time that people have had issues then i'm quite happy and willing to pull my own arrows even if scoring.

I'll also try to get compound arrows out.. but i'm of the opinion of "they stuck them in there.. they should b***dy well pull them out" as i was off for 2 months last summer through injury after having to pull arrows for three compounds and myself (ok.. one of the compounds helped) duing a York

[steve58]

The only time I ever have any problem with my own (wooden) arrows is when the shafts are wet, but then that applies to all types. Fortunately most TOs have the good sense to put longbowers all together, so we don't have to pull compound (or even recurve) arrows very often. If I felt anyone's arrows were so well stuck in that I was risking injury attempting to pull them then I would not do so, and would ask the archer to pull their own out, surely our first concern is to make sure we are safe?

[krela]

Originally Posted by Yorker

If you are disabled then you need a friend to get you to the competition if you are in a wheelchair anyway so they can give you a hand. If in doubt I'm sure the judges would draft someone in.

Do you? I'm sure that's news to 90% of wheelchair users around the country. I think you need to re-assess your prejudices about disability.

[tisrob]

From my own (limited) experience of tournaments I have found that the archers on the target nominate a scorer and two of the others pull the arrows, rotating the pullers each end. Obviously the one not pulling (resting) assists by collecting arrows from the pullers and sorting them for the others. The more difficult arrows we just use both pullers.

As a compounder, I find myself apologising to Recurvers when they are pulling out my arrows (and I'm not shooting too heavy yet).

As a Tournament Organiser I will be seperating (where possible) recurve/longbow from compound archers - hopefully this will cause less friction amongst the ranks.