left handed bow

[elastoplastscavenger]

a certain member of a certain archery club (not on this forum that i am aware of) picked up one of the club bows and started shooting with it. he then came to our equipment fixing dude asking for an arrow rest 'cos it had broken off the bow to which our equipment dude said "why are you shooting a left handed bow?"
the reply came "this is a left handed bow!?!?".

he hadnt noticed it was left handed, or that it was about 10lbs too heavy for him or that the fletchings were tearing the arrow rest off. forgiveable if he had only been shooting for a few sessions but this was after 9 months or something.

this same guy nearly shot me in the leg by drawing while pinching the arrow nock between his fingers, the arrow fell off the rest and he then releasing the arrow as the tip pointed at 45degrees to the string resulting in it flying past my left thigh into the wall behind me.

and recently, in two seperate sessions, he picked up the left handed bow again to try shooting left handed...because obviously if he was shooting badly right handed the switch to left handed would bring an improvement. anyhoo, for some reason in both sessions he set himself up and shot an arrow and hit the boss...while standing 4ft BEHIND the shooting line.

i think he has been told to shape up or ship out.

[HELLCAT]

Think 'haps that counts for a fonz prambo or fonz sniper award !!!

[Max]

It is thankfully rare - I have seen something similar just once involving a would be Archer. Some people just are not connected to the real world. I'm not talking about the usual mistakes we all made at one time or another, but someone occupying another parallel dimension which exists just close enough to be able to see them! Some of these people are clearly in Government and certainly working hard at a high level in the legal system.