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Originally Posted by ratbastid
I did a semester of archery in college, as a P.E. credit. LOVED it.
I'm not much of a hunter (nothing against it, but I was raised in more a fishing family than a hunting family), but target shooting with a recurve is a very good time. Combines like that feel like cheating to me--I shot one in class for a couple days, and it just didn't feel like I was FEELING the bow, you know? I was accurate as hell with it, but it just didn't seem right--too much mechanical assistance.
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I'm actually not much of a hunter either... it's been more of a recent development. Even when I was still into shooting guns all the time (growing up, and most of the years in the Marine Corps), I always kinda wanted to go, but I just wasn't feeling rifle hunting.
I agree that recurves give you more of that archer feeling. Once i got my compound sighted in, I only practice with it a couple times a month, where as i take out the recurve almost every day. It's one of the very few things these days in which I can get totally lost, and let go of all concept of time. I'm actually learning how to build my own warbow (medieval english long bow... 150lb draw), for that truly authentic feel.
EDIT: I'm jealous of all you guys who had this in PE. My schools through the years never offered anything nearly as fun.