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I shot a "Marble Drop" that was a lot of fun. It is a life size metal deer with a cut out for his heart with a backstop behind. A piece of pipe is staked so one end is higher than the other with a bucket at the lower end. The object is to place a marble in the pipe and shoot the deer in the heart before the marble hits the bucket. It is harder if you leave your arrow in your quiver. "Drop, Draw, Shoot"!
-------------------- As you swim the river of life, do the breast stroke. It helps clear the turds from your path. George Carlin Posts: 281 | From: Kansas | Registered: Dec 2004
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Roanoke Valley Traditional Bowmen recently used a clay target thrower to send "rabbits" scurrying across a field in front of a line of archers. Many arrows flying, much hootin' & hollerin', and we even managed to hit a few. Very cost effective target as a box of clays can last for hundreds of shots, you know, if your not trying too hard....
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At the UBM rendezvous a couple years back I started doing a "bow skirmish" that was a 3 person team event. We put clay targets in hangers in front of the target butts. There were two target butts side by side and there were three targets hung on each butt. All six shooters stepped up to the line at the same time and each had 6 arrows. The "on deck" teams stood behind the shooters to act as spotters.
The gist of it is this: Each clay target represents an opposing member of the other team. You MUST shoot at your own target until you break it but as soon as you do, you can begin shooting at the others to help your team mates. When you break your target, you eliminate the shooter in your spot on the opposing team. Since you are not looking at the other teams targets, spotters are used to watch the targets of the other team and tap the shooter on the back to let him know that he's "out".
...Targets for team A...........................Targets for team X.... ...represent team X............................represent team A..... ....X1........X2........X3........................A1........A2........A3.... ====== ====== ======-----------====== ====== ======
....A1........A2........A3........................X1........X2........X3.... ......Team A shooters.............................Team X shooters.....
......On deck teams.............................On deck teams....... .....act as spotters.............................act as spotters.....
Everyone starts to shoot at a given signal. The spotters are watching the corresponding target on the target butt their shooter is NOT shooting at. Ex. If I'm spotting for shooter X1 of the team on the right, I watch the clay target in front of shooter A1 of the team on the left that REPRESENTS shooter X1 . The instant that clay target gets broken I tap my shooter on the back and he's "OUT". In the event of both shooters hitting their target at about the same time, they are both "out" just as if a real battle and both arrows were in the air at the same time so both shooters would have been shot by the other guy.
To make it fun, razzing and heckling from the crowd are strongly encouraged.
If all shooters (still in the game) of both teams run out of arrows, time is called and they all go retrieve arrows and start again. Don't laugh, it happens!
We did the full double elimination routine with drawings to start the matchups and buys where needed.
On a side note, trad gangs own Charlie Lamb and his buds were usually there. I think it was the first year I'm thinking of but they called their team (I think) the Wautauga Bowmen and the first time they stepped up to bat all three of them drilled their targets on the first shot to end it in about a second flat! Them boys could shoot! Crusty ol' farts....
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I've come to believe that the keys to shooting well for me are good form, trusting the bow to do all the work, and having the confidence in the bow and myself to remain motionless and relaxed at release until the arrow hits the mark. Posts: 3245 | From: Kansas City MO | Registered: Apr 2003
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Most fun I ever had was at the 1st Annual Arnie Clifton Cook n'Shoot.
Arnie cut the bottoms off of 4 standard plastic water bottles and 2 -2 liter pop bottles, he screwed the bottoms to a board equally spaced apart. Then he spray painted 3 empty plastic bottles blue and 3 yellow to fit inside the bottoms that he had screwed down. This made it so the wind wouldn't knock the empty plastic bottles down, and you had to hit it fairly well to knock it out of the holder. Then you line up 2-2 person teams and they race to see who can be the first to knock down the opposing teams bottles. Great fun. My team came in 3rd place - my husband's team won. I want one of these just to practice with in my back yard.
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The ITBS has a speed shoot which has a tower that looks something like this: ************** ***0---][****** ******][---0*** ***0---][****** ******][---0*** ******][****** ******][****** ******][****** *****/**\***** ****/****\**** **_/******\_** ************** (Ignore the asterisks)
One archer each side with six arrows. Start at signal and shoot targets (the zeros above)on your side. When you hit one they shift to the other side (spring loaded). When all twelve arrows are gone the archer with the most targets on their side is gone too. Sorry, I don't have pictures and the representation is a little crude. PM me and I'll see if I can design something on the autocad and e-mail it to you. Happy hunting.
-Brett
P.S. This is a timed event, 30-45 seconds, which really puts the pressure on.
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Oh, another one that's fun is to save up a bunch of 20 oz pop bottles and hang them on a teeter totter type balance pole and have two guys shoot against each other to see who can shoot holes in the bottle and drain their side first. One arrow in the bottom and one at the top works best.
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I've come to believe that the keys to shooting well for me are good form, trusting the bow to do all the work, and having the confidence in the bow and myself to remain motionless and relaxed at release until the arrow hits the mark. Posts: 3245 | From: Kansas City MO | Registered: Apr 2003
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