How do I get into archery?

How do I get into archery?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    get a bow I guess

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >get a longbow
    >go to common land
    >practice every sunday until you feel like your arms are about to break
    >do this until your muscle shape has changed
    >kill frenchmen

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Meanwhile the French man simply buys a crossbow

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah but proves you're a girly poofter, doesn't it?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Russian tier level of cope
          >We have more manly recruitment campaigns than western countries, it doesn't matter if we got blown by a missile fired by a black lesbian!

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >t. sad genoese mercenary whos crossbow exploded because he couldn't keep the string out of the rain

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        French man then dies because he took too long to reload another shot

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          French man wears armor and the arrow doesn't penetrate

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            french man sucks penis and is gay

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Historically Crossbows were very inferior 1-1 with Longbows, their only advantage is the relatively lower amount of training.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              less training and better for attacking a fortification as you can aim at a spot forever and fire in a split second

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          easier to harden an arrowhead than a breastplate, fricko

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          frenchman lives because they guillotined the crap out of those noblemen that forced them to leave their pavises behind.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        They bought guns, actually. France won the 100 years war by utilising firearms while the English stuck to longbows.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >France won the 100 years war by utilising firearms while the English stuck to longbows.
          first, this is straight up bullshit
          second, you would have to be an actual moron to believe in what you wrote

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        and promptly gets killed by an archer as proven by many medieval battles

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Any examples besides Crecy?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Yes. It's the middle of the night for me so I'm not gonna source you all battles I can think of but a great overall example of bow>crossbow were the central/eastern european battles which are rarely talked about for example the Battle of Grunwald where the Teutonic Knights and their western mercenaries (infantry, knights, artillery and crossbowmen) got btfo by the Polish-Lithuanian forces consisting in large numbers of light cavalry and archers. It's an incredibly kino battle but from what I've seen the english sources are lacking in details. I remember there being some examples in Asia as well but that is not something I know enough of. But to finish this there is a reason why Polish cavalry which was the best in Europe still used bows up to the XVIII century.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            counter examples?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            poitiers, flander's field, and agincourt.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >agincourt

              This really has a lot less to do with long bows more to do with terrible decisions by the French.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Archers still shred frenchies to pieces

                >back mounted quiver
                >historical
                Lmao fricking redditors

                see

                https://i.imgur.com/ji6kWCi.png

                Nice display of the Dunning-Kruger-Effect, boy

                just because you are too stupid and too lazy to do some research doesn't mean they aren't historical

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yes, yet no one seems to be willing to talk about the french cavalry running over the english in the following battle or the fact that the war was a total loss of english holdings on the continent.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I mean... yeah? And? We are not talking about who won the war or who won the most battles.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Because I thought we were just talking about Archers VS crossbowmen.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Get pushed by your knights into a disadvantageous position
        >try to retreat and redeploy
        >They accuse you of cowardice and kill you
        >They then charge uphill into the English arrowstorm without any screening from the crossbowmen they just killed
        >They get slaughtered

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >>do this until your bone shape has changed
      fixed that for ya.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >start when you're eleven years old

        >get a longbow
        >go to common land
        >practice every sunday until you feel like your arms are about to break
        >do this until your muscle shape has changed
        >kill frenchmen

        All regular heavy exercise leaves testable changes in your bones, this is a half true meme. The current record holder for pulling back a longbow (which shatters historical records) is some manlet (albiet a fairly muscular one) who started after puberty.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          If you've ever seen a professional or long-serving archer you will see how thick their shoulders are when doing firing position.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >start when you're eleven years old

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      honestly how my ancestors did it, can't be any worse for me. Its like a paleo-diet. well at-least I will have plenty of french cuisine. maybe I should take up the long sword as well... then gain something just says zweihander. does anyone else hear the marching of boots?

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This thread has be wondering if there has ever been a justified self-defense shooting with a bow and arrow

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      there has been for 8 centuries

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      yeah, just search "homeowner kills intruder with bow and arrow" on google.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >be English
    >have a war against King John so that the common people may have common land
    >have a law that makes archery commonplace and woven into the culture of English national life
    >everyone in England owns a sword or a bow on some description for the defence of the realm against Frenchmen, vagabonds and the Scottish.
    >Glorious Revolution comes
    >King William establishes a Bill of Rights and all Protestants have the right to bare arms "as allowed by law", mostly to defend themselves against the Catholic Irish.
    >this becomes the basis of the US constitution.
    >18th century comes
    >Northern England is the largest and most esteemed gunsmithing industry in the world
    >19th century comes
    >Britain established an NRA before America does
    >British police officers have to borrow local civilians guns to counter Latvian anarchists
    >20th century
    >a few shootings by derranged people who bought revolvers from gun stores
    >because the right to bare arms is suffixed with "as allowed by law" it is easily reversed
    >now British people can't even own pepper spray

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      How did Anglos become such a buckbroken people so quickly? Two generations between "we will fight them ..." and "save a loife, bin that knoife"

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        End of Cold War and Tony Blair being Prime Minister

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        America broke them with Suez, favoring sandBlack folk over NATO allies.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        End of Cold War and Tony Blair being Prime Minister

        Wars, especially wars with a high rate of attrition and at least partially volunteer service, don't take anything like a perfect cross section of the populace out of circulation, they over select for positive masculine traits.
        Think about the people who volunteered to fight in the world wars, the deaths in these conflicts selected overwhelmingly for aggression and assertiveness, which means the deaths also selected for the highest testosterone.
        Then look at the people who left Britain, either as prisoners or as emigrants over the last few hundred years. Overwhelmingly selected for Aggression and Disagreeableness, which also means that loss selected for Testosterone.

        Add on to all of that sixty years of psychotic negative conditioning and the surprising thing isn't how fricked they are, it's how they aren't fricked worse.

        It doesn't matter how strong and fierce your population is to begin with if you skim the top 10% of manly combative traits off for a couple hundred years you'll be left with blubbering slug people. Trait-selective demographic damage does absolutely horrific things to a population.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I don't quite buy "muh alpha genes" as a comprehensive explanation considering most of continental Europe went through similar stuff without ending up as pathetic as Britain.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Most of continental europe went through similar stuff and is exactly as pathetic as Britain. France, Germany, all of northern europe, Italy, they're packed with degenerate crybabies.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Didn't Sweden more or less stay out of both world wars?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Demographic selection against masculinity is a major factor in the masculine downfall of western Europe, but it's not the only thing in the world that can cause a horrible trait selective decline.

                Hell look at America and Australia, some of the most aggressive stock on the planet and much less population loss focused on positive traits (we could argue how much damage the civil war did but the men of the country remained fairly healthy for about a hundred years post war), yet both are at the absolute breaking point for other reasons.
                I dont mean to downplay the effect propaganda has by any means.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >How did they go from fanatically fighting against the enemy of the israelites to being israelite'd at home?
        One of life's great mysteries I guess

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why are the koreans the only ones who make movies with actual war archery techniques?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Cause archery is a national sport there. Some Legolas techniques would probably be spotted as bullshit by the people that go to the bowrange regularly and know what it implies to shoot a bow.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Have you SEEN their olympic archery team? asiatics are ballistics computers who walk on two legs and eat weird things.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Your pic opened to me a world of korean movies with bows and other cool weapons and armors.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Koreans are the only ones that make actual historicals anymore, western "historicals" now are people wearing brown and black leather armor, grumbling, rolling around in shit, and living in torchlit mud huts with a grey/blue filter over the entire movie because sunlight and color didn't exist in the past.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >back mounted quiver
      >historical
      Lmao fricking redditors

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Not an archer by any means, but quivers were usually wore on the side right? Did archers carry melee weapons as well?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Nice display of the Dunning-Kruger-Effect, boy

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The arrow is on the wrong side of the riser, you fricking moron.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >asiaticanon uses a pic of incorrect technique and ahistoric quiver placement
        God, you can't get anything right.

        work on your bait homosexual

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          NTA but

          https://i.imgur.com/Un96QpE.jpg

          Why are the koreans the only ones who make movies with actual war archery techniques?

          is wrong, he has his thumb over his index finger instead of under it, though I think they get it right in the rest of the movie.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >asiaticanon uses a pic of incorrect technique and ahistoric quiver placement
      God, you can't get anything right.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just buy an archery and then get into it

    t. PrepHole expert on everything

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Please don't fall for the recurve meme, anon. Just get a starter compound bow.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Came for this and I used to shoot competition archery. Start light so you don't develop bad habits. 45lbs or less draw weight. Focus on being able to sink every shaft into a tennis ball at 20 yards before you think about increasing draw weight. I killed my first deer at 10 with a 45lb draw compound so it's still a very lethal weight.

      Buy used as you'll save a lot of $$ on something you'll replace anyway. Pin sights are cheap and abundant and work plenty fine. Get it checked out by your local bow shop as it might save you a hand/eye because bows can and do fail (strong/cam/etc).

      Practice is 99% of archery, gear is 1%. I can outshoot most guys with their insane setups because they don't practice all that much. Shoot every day even if it's only a dozen times. It isn't like shooting guns, your skill at it wanes much faster without frequent practice.

      Don't listen to any longbow/recurve homosexuals. I own and shoot both frequently but they're not nearly as good to start on initially.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I didn't start until some french canadians migrated to my neighborhood. They are a few generations removed from continental europe and so am I but trying to pincushion those crapauds just came naturally. Last time I saw that hook nosed c**t I tried to bash him up with a big hammer too

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Buy a sword, I guess.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >buy samick sage
    >make sure the limbs are somewhere in the 25-35 pound range when you start out
    >don't go too high, unless you work out your back and shoulder muscles a lot you probably can't draw nearly as much weight as you think you can, and that's ok. Besides, you can always buy stronger limbs later on.
    >When your bow arrives, measure your draw length (not going to go into that here, there are articles that explain it far better than I can)
    >Arrows are best purchased in person, but online can work as well. Buy Easton, they're good. This is the spine chart for easton arrows (At least I think so, you may want to check their website), and if you want them to behave right when they get released, you'll want to follow it. The Y axis is your draw weight, which you match up with the weight of your arrowhead (125gr is good, I'd recommend that). The X axis is your draw length. Find where the two intersect and buy some arrows with that spine rating.
    >when your arrows arrive, I'd recommend getting them cut to size, which can be done by most sporting goods stores that stock archery supplies. Leaving them uncut will affect your accuracy, but not by a whole lot relatively speaking, so you're fine going with uncut arrows for now if you must.
    >in terms of targets, foam block targets are great. They're a bit pricey, but they last forever so it's worth it in the long run.
    >Buy a decent archery glove and arm guard.
    >when it comes to actually shooting, focus on pulling with your back muscles, not your arms. There's a lot to aiming and technique that I won't go into, it might be a good idea to take a class or two. Also youtube is a good resource, nusensei especially.
    >If you like it, then you can decide where you want to go from there. In terms of traditional archery, nomad warrors sells horsebows and other eastern style shortbows for every budget and preference, the longbow shop sells... longbows, and if you're interested in japanese archery then ebay is your friend.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Also, I forgot to mention that you may want to consider investing in a fletching jig and fletching glue. You'll have to refletch your arrows eventually, and it pays off to be able to do it yourself. Plus you can put whatever color or pattern fletchings you want on your arrows, and customization is always fun.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >make sure the limbs are somewhere in the 25-35 pound range when you start out

      yeah I thought I was a tough guy and bought 50 pound limbs for ragim takedown. I was surprised and instantly humbled when I tried shooting it. went down to 30 and worked my way up. It's so much fun I got a lot of respect for people who do traditional bow hunting

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        yeah from what I hear 45 is the absolute max a beginner should start out with, and that's only if they're an in shape guy

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    there are several options, the ceapest is to get a 1" PVC, heat gun, 550 cord, ductape and wooden dowls.

    the cheap starter is a 35lb take down re-curve, get at-least 12 arrows and bag target.

    nu sensei has a lot of good stuff.
    https://www.youtube.com/c/NUSensei

    of course you could always be patrician and sell all your stuff and go become a mongol horse bowmen

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Don't you americans have archery clubs? Here are quite common

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Some gun clubs have archery sections.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Mandatum?

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    if you're actually serious get on the google machine and find an archery range in your area

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    are you serious or what? it's a super common sport, I did it as a kid and then my parents got into it, we all did recurve and my dad also did traditional archery (no sights, no gibbledyasiatic on your bow)
    so even if you're a homosexual moron who had no intention to go through with it and have prepared excuses about how modern archery doesn't count there's still an active subclass for shooting traditional longbows

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    if you live in a place where you can shoot, buy a $100-150 recurve bow on amazon and have at it. That's about as complicated as it gets

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    any specific models for recurves you guys recommend? and is there any sense in buying a compound one as your first bow?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The gut earlier recommended the samick sage takedown recurve, they seem to be pretty popular. Gonna grab one myself

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Just make one out of pvc pipe.

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