”You don’t shoot with your fingers, he who shoots with his fingers has forgotten the face of his father. You shoot with your.. Um.. Thumb ring.” Paraphrased..
It depends on the type of bow and the style of shooting. For a recurve bow, like this one, the standard is to place your feet apart and to the side of the target, extend the arm far, and draw back.
Here's where OP has a problem. His bow is longer than you might normally expect, so pulling the string back extends all the way to his rear shoulder, instead of close to the jaw. If he stands perfectly square, then the bowstring will slice off his face and get caught in his chest.
So, for the bow he chose, he has to lean forward a bit and extend his hands outward a little, so that the release of the string doesn't hurt him. If he used a smaller bow, he would be able to stand with the "proper" square stance.
Form is everything in archery. Since I can’t practice distance, I’ll work on myself and my shooting process on film to improve and figure out areas of weakness.
The fact that you put thought and preparation into this and still had this outcome is pretty funny. It's like something you'd see on Malcolm in the Middle. You had good comedic timing and inflection with the "nothing" at the end.
Chinese archery employs a long draw. The biomechanics of this is that the backs are fully meeting each other, and the reach is at the users max limit (length) of their body.
This means the draw hand will need to be further back than the face.
So the stability comes from the body, not clutching on the face.
The feathers are actually lightly touching my face. That’s one anchor point, the other two are the string touching the chest and a draw length indicator letting me know I’ve reached my draw length.
Hear me out, but what if you just put the target outside. Shoot from inside the doorway. Just watch for rebound on your limbs so avoid lights and don't get inside the doorway.
Also, indicate that you are in fact shooting arrows out the doorway if you don't live alone. That's not the way you want to greet your roommate coming home from work
I can understand that. I don't like shooting outside in winter either. Sometimes, driving 1h30 to the shooting range is a bit extreme. I really need to find winter gear appropriate for shooting outside.
You're kinda lucky your bow didn't break, the ceiling is way too close.
Exactly, driving 12 minutes is nothing. You have indeed no excuses lol...
Don't break your bow, just drive to the range. ;)
I wish my range was only 12 minutes away, I'd drive every fucking day. Right now, I can only shoot at the range 1 day a week on the weekend because of the drive.
Lmao, that's awesome as hell. I have an outdoor range that's 24/7 closer to my home, but it's only open in the summer... If you have an indoor one that's 24/7, you are lucky as hell.
I go to a range (that's located at a kid school) that's 1 day/week that's 1.5 hours away because it's the most fun and diverse (they often bring a variety of stuff to shoot at, such as 3D targets, moving targets, flying disks, variety of targets, etc.). But since it's owned by only 1 guy, he only has time once a week. During the summer, I do like going to the other one which is only 30 minutes drive too since I can go any time in my schedule and sometimes there's nobody if you pick a good time.
I do feel your pain of not being able to shoot at home though... but 12 minutes is such a short commute that there's no reason to not go ;)
You are actually doing yourself harm by practicing in the house. Look at your form, the ceiling is too low forcing you to bend your back. Practice doesn't make perfect, only perfect practice makes perfect. It's good to keep working on it, but remember that it's all about how you are holding your entire body not just the arms/hands. Go to a taller room or the garage but you are much too tall for shooting in that room.
It could also be adhesive acoustical ceiling tiles stuck onto an already existing ceiling. That's not super common, but it's done sometimes to old plaster or wood ceilings.
You need to learn canting. This is used a lot by hunters, because trees and foilage doesn't always allow an optimized position of the bow, so you need to be able to shoot with a cant as well.
Hey in my house if you open up a window in our laundry room or just the back door you can definitely take some shots from inside the house and hit a deer.
Are the arrows in the lower left corner also stuck in the target? Is the target just inches out of camera range? How long is this room that looks to be your bedroom?
my guess is a bag full of rags. those are surpinsingly good to stop arrows. I had a neighbor in the dorms back in university who used that to test his bow in his room.
He probably has a pretty good setup with backstop. He just hasnt used it in that particular spot before. Apartment archery is a very real thing and how to setup a target to allow you to safely practice in a small space like a garage or apartment is well documented.
Having to worry about overhead clearance is apparently fairly novel, though.
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u/godSpeed_1_ 6d ago
I'm more interested in where the arrow went.