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Look, if you want to shoot like the they did in the 17th Century that's cool but don't knock folks who are working to shoot the most accurate bows the technology can devise. As I stated before, all thing being equal, and at the Olympic level all equipment is, it still comes down to the technique of the individual archer. In the end, the only difference is the size of the groups, nothing more nothing less.
NO, but like much of the olympic games, it has evolved into the sport it is today. What I don't like is the fact that this and the shooting sports is covered lightly or not at all by the major networks due to anti gun people in high postions and the percieved ideas of anti gun fanatics as customers of said networks.
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NO, but like much of the olympic games, it has evolved into the sport it is today. What I don't like is the fact that this and the shooting sports is covered lightly or not at all by the major networks due to anti gun people in high postions and the percieved ideas of anti gun fanatics as customers of said networks.
The general consensus indicates that you are.
Your latest comment about walking up & poking an arrow in a target indicates you are aware of it. Its ok, happens to everybody.
The two sports are definitely intertwined.
I think that there is a sad lack of media enthusiasm for both because people associate each with death, either of an animal or a person.
Reason I think its sad is because the sporting use of both archery & firearms is very popular & growing. They just arent very politically correct in today's social atmosphere.
Its probably safe to say that for every one misuse of a gun or bow there are millions of safe recreational usages.
Anyway, a proponent of one should support the other, they coexist for the most part in the same sport of projectile projecting.
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The general consensus indicates that you are.
Your latest comment about walking up & poking an arrow in a target indicates you are aware of it. Its ok, happens to everybody.
[quote=Tin Knocker;10187459]The two sports are definitely intertwined.
I think that there is a sad lack of media enthusiasm for both because people associate each with death, either of an animal or a person.[/quote}
Ah, more like; watching archery is like watching paint dry, and I like archery. Placing archery in the same category as firearms, with regards to "political correctness" is ridiculous. Whens the first time, much less the last time, has an archery incident been in the news? Anyone other than the op read about a mass killing with a bow and arrow, much less a single incident?
The two sports are definitely intertwined.
I think that there is a sad lack of media enthusiasm for both because people associate each with death, either of an animal or a person.[/quote}
Ah, more like; watching archery is like watching paint dry, and I like archery. Placing archery in the same category as firearms, with regards to "political correctness" is ridiculous. Whens the first time, much less the last time, has an archery incident been in the news? Anyone other than the op read about a mass killing with a bow and arrow, much less a single incident?
How absurd.
Whats absurd?
they are both shooting sports. Letting a relatively rare thing overshadow millions of legal harmless sporting uses is whats absurd. You might not know that the world existed before the advent of firearms, but arrows have killed millions of people too.
Shooting firearms is no less a sport than archery.
Watching either is no more boreing than golf, yet golf is popular. Only because its considered more civilized.
The media ignores both sports for the same reasons, its viewed as distasteful.
Your assertion that modern compounds arent archery.
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