aleshanee
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specifically traditional archery..... .. and even more specifically traditional heavy longbow archery...
. ... although i do own a few lighter weight recurve bows i use for teaching.... even some small super light bows for teaching children......
my primary hunting bow and the one i practice on the range with is a custom martin savannah with a draw weight of 60 pounds at 23 inches draw length.... (23 inches is actually considered a very short draw length... but then so is being 4 ft 10 and almost 1/2.... i am what they call vertically challenged. ..
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but on top of being a traditional archer i also make traditional hunting arrows with hand cut wood shafts and natural feathers.. .. and also various designs of native american arrows with hand knapped flint and obsidian broadheads....
my dad is also a longbow archer and bowhunter... (he;s the one who taught me)... and he shoots a long bow of 83 pounds draw weight at 28 inches.... but he pulls it back to almost 31.... it;s a monster of a bow and requires arrows super strong in the spine
. ... although i do own a few lighter weight recurve bows i use for teaching.... even some small super light bows for teaching children...... my primary hunting bow and the one i practice on the range with is a custom martin savannah with a draw weight of 60 pounds at 23 inches draw length.... (23 inches is actually considered a very short draw length... but then so is being 4 ft 10 and almost 1/2.... i am what they call vertically challenged. ..
.)..but on top of being a traditional archer i also make traditional hunting arrows with hand cut wood shafts and natural feathers.. .. and also various designs of native american arrows with hand knapped flint and obsidian broadheads....
my dad is also a longbow archer and bowhunter... (he;s the one who taught me)... and he shoots a long bow of 83 pounds draw weight at 28 inches.... but he pulls it back to almost 31.... it;s a monster of a bow and requires arrows super strong in the spine
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... along with surfing... (which i am nowhere near as good at as i am with archery)... it helped me build upper body strength and also confidence.... i already had lower body muscle from long distance bicycling and dance classes... but my primary reason for wanting to get into it was to be able to go hunting with my dad up in the mountain rainforest... .... to do that i needed to have a hunting license... and to get that i had to be able to put 6 arrows into a 9 inch paper pie plate target ..without missing... from 20 yards away with a bow that was legal weight for hunting... . (40 pounds draw weight for a recurve... and 45 pounds for longbow).....plus also pass a written test.... . .that took a lot of study and a lot of practice to build up to - starting off with lightweight bows around 20 pounds in draw weight and gradually increasing to more and more powerful ones as i was able..... . thankfully we had a lot of bows of all different weight ranges because my adopted siblings all being into archery from when they were really young... ...
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