Alternative "Practice"?

[d.kerri]

As a full time employee and a full time grad student (which often equates to being a part-time husband...just ask my wife) I have a hard time making time for getting my practice in at the archery range. Priorities, priorities, I know, but aside from that!

How are people / how can people get in some practice time if they can't get to a range and don't have a backyard they can shoot in?

Devices? Techniques? Exercises? Really appreciate any and all insights you may have.

Fall's almost here...!!!

 

[hardstalk]

Shoot from your couch into a block. Helps a lot just shooting a couple feet. Practice form, release, the whole 9 yards from the couch. If you get a chance on weekends to run the block out to an unpopulated area and shoot 50+ yards have at it. I've done a lot of shooting right in the living room though.

 

[packer58]

Good advise right there, if you need to stretch it out a little use your hallway. You really don't need yardage to practice form and build muscle memory. I had a bout with a form of TP and did nothing but shoot short range for quite a while.

 

[Gr8bawana]

Good advice, just be very sure of your target and have a good backstop because you probably don't want to shoot your neighbor through the wall.

 

[d.kerri]

Good advice, just be very sure of your target and have a good backstop because you probably don't want to shoot your neighbor through the wall.

Hahaa- agreed.

 

[d.kerri]

Shoot from your couch into a block. Helps a lot just shooting a couple feet. Practice form, release, the whole 9 yards from the couch. If you get a chance on weekends to run the block out to an unpopulated area and shoot 50+ yards have at it. I've done a lot of shooting right in the living room though.

Do you know if this have the potential to do any structural damage to the arrow over time? It seems like generating giant amounts of KE and then slamming it to a stop in 10 ft might do this, but I don't know science well enough to say that with confidence?

 

[BruinPoint]

I shoot a lot in the garage, usually to work on my form, release, and follow through... When I do shoot for accuracy I use a tiny spot, under an inch. Haven't noticed it being hard on arrows, I've been working on the same 2 dozen for a few years now, but I check them frequently (flex and feel for cracks).

 

[ssliger]

What kind of target do you use? I have had arrows pass thru my target at 20 yards


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[BruinPoint]

What kind of target do you use? I have had arrows pass thru my target at 20 yards


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A layered foam broadhead target lasts a long time with field points, plus the impacts haven't been continually in one small area. The arrows always protrude so there needs to be some back space and a hard backstop just in case.

 

[az.mountain runner]

If you want to be super safe build your self a back stop 2x2frame and double plated 1/2" plywood one sheet applied to the front of frame and the other applied to the backside and leave a foot spaces before wall

 

[Donny Land]

All good advice here.

I once saw a video of Cameron Hanes, he shoots his bow everyday in his living room!