Olympic Archery Tournament

[smarandr]

I'm no robin hood, but I'm watching the archery tournament and thinking that I could group arrows about as well as some of these people are doing. Certainly my equipment would give me some advantages; compound bow let-off, a mechanical release, drop away rest, etc. so I'm probably comparing apples and oranges.

I guess having never shot a recurve using my fingers as a release I'm having a tough time appreciating what these archers are doing. I know there are a few traditional archers here on the sight--could you enlighten me as to the extra challenge recurve archers face?

 

[Dinkshooter]

Fingers, recurve? I doubt you could hit the target.

 

[Jezz]

One of my best friends is a traditional archer and he is amazing out to 50 yards. I am always in awe by how well he shoots. I haven't taken it up as it is hard enough to kill animals spot and stalk with a compound.

I have a good video of him stalking in on some javelina's last January, looks just like Fred Bear with the hat and bobby pin holding the brim back on the right side to keep it out of the strings.

Dink hit it right if you think you can do what they do based upon your compound shooting. It's all instinctual shooting.

 

[Zach]

70m, I'd be hard pressed to be as accurate as some of these guys.

The US guys are practicing 8 hours a day, at least that's what one of them said. That's a lot of shooting.

 

[Scoot]

I'm no robin hood, but I'm watching the archery tournament and thinking that I could group arrows about as well as some of these people are doing.

I don't mean to be rude, but you have no idea of what you're talking about. You're not comparing apples and oranges- it's more like apples and elephants. You're probably thinking of the groups you shoot at 20 yards on a range and comparing it to what they're doing... The differences in distance and equipment are huge.

Do you think these are some randomly selected group of arrow flingers who aren't the best of the very best the US has to offer? Apparently you do, and it pretty clearly demonstrates what I said in the first sentence of this reply.

I'll happily bet a case of beer on any one of them vs. you with your current set up. In fact, I'll bet ten cases of beer.

 

[2rocky]

Olympic archers are very talented archers. Recurve and fingers adds an exponential level of difficulty. Even at 18 meters in the World archery Festival, SELDOM will a recurve competitor score up with the Compound unlimited shooters.

Scoot
If it is a case of Budweiser this is the best use for it....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8g9oH50WTE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCiH0U9xHfo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHDHps0kWzI

This is Joy Fahrenkrog. I beat her in the San Diego Rock N' Roll Marathon. Of course I trained hard for 18 weeks and she just did it on a whim...

 

[d-bone20917]

I switched to shooting a recurve a year and a half ago after over 20 years shooting and hunting with a compound. It is very difficult and takes a lot of practice to get good at because you are shooting finger release and you have no sights. Right now I still won't shoot at an animal over 25 yards away. The olympic shooters are shooting at 70 meters (around 77 yards). It is hard to imagine how hard that is if you have never shot one.

 

[smarandr]

I don't mean to be rude, but you have no idea of what you're talking about.

Thats why Im aksing you collage boys to learn me sos that I can get ejumacated on the subject.

 

[2rocky]

compare Classic male limited championship (Olympic Recurve) to Compound unlimited in this link
Summary :
Indoors at 18 M. the X ring is the size of a dime. The 10 ring is 4 cm, about the size of a quarter 900 is a perfect score after 3 days.
no Recurve shooters perfect, the top 18 compound males were perfect for 3 days over 90 arrows.

 

[Devil Diver Down]

Olympic archers are very talented archers. Recurve and fingers adds an exponential level of difficulty. Even at 18 meters in the World archery Festival, SELDOM will a recurve competitor score up with the Compound unlimited shooters.

Scoot
If it is a case of Budweiser this is the best use for it....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8g9oH50WTE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCiH0U9xHfo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHDHps0kWzI

This is Joy Fahrenkrog. I beat her in the San Diego Rock N' Roll Marathon. Of course I trained hard for 18 weeks and she just did it on a whim...

I think you ran too fast. She looks like a pretty good pace setter to follow.

Those videos are pretty good. Definitely one of the best ways to dispose of Bud.