Wearing watches

[wingate_52]

I do not wear a watch when shooting. It should be in my bow arm. One less distraction. Less weight. What do you do?

[Stace]

I remove my watch too and put it in one of my quiver pockets.

It's quite a chunky watch and interferes with the back of my hand when holding the bow.

[Purple Hugs]

hmmm..being new I hadn't thought about it till yesterday.. as my arm brace intereferred with it.. until I was told I had it too low..

So now brace in right place.. which left room for my watch and yes I did wear it.

However it's an old sports watch.. as my 'posh' normal watch is in the shop for a new battery, going to take 5 or 6 weeks - yeah I nearly fell over too...
So I doubt I'll wear that to archery.

[elastoplastscavenger]

i dont think my club/sports union insurance covers any jewlery (injury wise, not theft)

[chris]

i have got a pocket watch so i'm ok there. dont look at much tho, dont like being kept to times if i can help it.
chris

[Sparkie]

Thread it through the belt for your quiver so as to look at it without interfering with anything.

[Purple Hugs]

Sparkie! that's a great tip!!! I've a few watches so could keep one for archery no prob.

[LineCutter]

I've got a scar on the inside of my left wrist from wearing a watch & using a Beiter bracer (the one that looks like a 6" ruler). Dodgy loose & instead of vibrating against the bracer at the end of the shot the string hit the bracer. Perfectly: At the end & in line so perfectly that it pushed the bracer down my arm into my (metal) watchstrap, which took a chunk out of the skin.

I can't believe it's a major risk to me or the rest of you, but I don't wear a watch while shooting now.

[Purple Hugs]

ouch!!

[Cakemeister]

Prefer to take my watch off. One less thing to think about- it tnds to dig in to my wrist with my hand cocked.