Flicking through some photos, found this one of the kids in the back garden.

They were bored so I showed them how to make bow and arrows with some sticks, branches from our trees, some string etc. Even made up some red indian headbands etc.

So we have deadly weapons, a rusty saw, a stanley knife, the grass might be wet and not a high viz jacket in sight

 

It's also child pornography as I'm sure I can see some ankle flesh from the up-jeans your daughter is revealing!

 

awwww, they are sooooo cute

Have you not made them a catapult yet, shame on you

 

I hope you showed them how to scalp properly too

 

The catapult is on the list of " Dangerous stuff that Dad can dream up when we are bored" list
No doubt any local animals in the vicinity will have to scarper
And the green house will get it in the neck


As for scalping , that is stage II. They needed to practise blood curdling yells first.

I think ' Look Mummy no hands !! ' on the bike followed by ' Look Mummy no teeth' is scheduled this autumn

 

i just had a little girl last week and shes ace, shes so small though 5 pound 13 when born

 

^^^^^^^^^ You have all that fun to come mate

 

Hahahaha, yeah, think HSE would have a few issues there!!

Reminds me of when I was younger my dad came home from work once with 2 "He-Man" style swords he had made for me and my brother from 3mm sheet Aluminium, surprisingly Mum wasn't having any of it!!!
He kept telling her that it was OK since the edges were blunt, but still!!!

He also spent months making us a swing from bits of steel tubing left lying about at work, looked ace, he then had to QA it himself and it collapsed, never did get fixed....

 

My dad had a building company when we were kids and we lived in one of the new builds in a row of houses that he was putting up. Hence our playground was a building site and one of the best games we used to play was riding in the dumper truck bucket and being tipped out of it by whoever was using it at the time

 

Swiss, some of us never grow out of that stage!!

1 of the guys at the club keeps making his own bows (and is good at it) and has around 75 to date, and they all work.

Me, I prefer slightly more modern materials

 

That picture just reminds me of the scene in Deliverence

 

Simon, what do you shoot with that?

 

god knows, but I am sure I can see a small cable car going up and down the south section of it.

 

When I used to make bows and arrows at that age the bow always used to bend too much in the middle as well!

Les

 

Really nice, happy picture that.

 

PMSL There is!!

 

Paper targets that have animals on, or life size 3d foam rubber targets of animals, or boringly normal round targets.

Its called field archery, good fun and quite a challenge

But that bows colour is changing. Its going over to the riser (handle) in WR blue with the limbs looking like carbon fibre

 

Usually end up with things like this (the yellow is 1.5 inch wide) this was shot at 40 yards.

 

That's gunna sting...

 

So no fluffy bunnies then?

 

That would be illegal (its illegal to hunt anything in the UK with a bow) besides, I'm not accurate enough with a bow to go bow hunting.

 

How terrible, you hunt other bows

What kind, dicky, take-a, bridges ???

 

Do you kill ribbons as well as bows?

How cruel

 

When was a young teen, me & my friends used to go into a disused quarry and play "soldiers" with air-rifles - got my m8 right between the eyes at 100yds once, cracking shot

 

Would't they then be rabbit kebabs?

 

LOL it's a compound bow. Used in the states for hunting, over here, mainly target archery: exceptionally powerful and accurate bows. The cams on the top of the limbs mean you can have a bow with a 60lbs draw weight, but only be supporting about 18lbs at full draw. It's almost akin to rifle shooting! The arrows wil leave the bow at well over 200fps.

I'm a recurve archer myself (only type allowed in the olympics), but would like to get into compound shooting at some point.

Ns04

 

I like an Archers every now and then, but only if it is late and I am really pished

 

NS04, you forgot field

Wher about you based? NFAS big game rounds are fun and all singing recurves have their own class.
That bows only about 43# draw weight as I have shoulder probs, but only 50% let off.

A guy at the club has a guardian, and hes oly holding 9lb at fill draw, from a 62# peak.


Give it another 8 years and I can see compounds being allowed in the olympics and possibly a field demo in 2012

 

Another Recurve archer here. I think the Compounds are quite interesting and I'd be interested in how I'd do with one.

 

As an ex recurve (Gnas) archer, I found it sooooo easy to switch, to compound ltd, the biggest shock and thing to get used to it not holding the full draw weight.