3. Why 125gr pts or greater? If you get a balanced arrow with a 85 gr or 100 gr tip? Is what you want here a minimum weight arrow? If so, say so!

4. Why restrict arrows to wood? Even Howard Hill used an aluminum arrow to kill an Elephant! Why not encourage archers to shoot what flies best for them out of their Longbow? Don't you think Hill, Bear, Pope and others of the past would use the best shaft material they could find. Why not outlaw forgewood and footed shafts also?

8. 1/8" thick shelf? Why should I have to trim my sealskin shelf with an electric razor. If you want to demand that people shoot with an English Longbow then just make this an English Longbow class.

10. Mediterranean release? What happened to Apache (3-under), and Asiatic? Other IBO classes just say have your index finger touching the nock. What's wrong with that?

11. Yellow stake 35 yds? Why increase the distance another five yards? Why not decrease it to 25 yds? If 3D is a game where we practice for hunting and the average kill is under 15 yds, then isnt practicing at 25 yds far enough? If we just want to make it more difficult, why not require all the classes to shoot from the orange stake and have only one stake?

In a thread regarding junior archers, the advisability of fragmenting the juniors into more and more classes was discussed. Here we have just excluded folks by making rules. You either shoot our way with our type arrows, or you don't shoot, seems to be the attitude.

Thanks for reading my tirade, The Grey Ghost, aka Bill Hayden
(I shoot aluminum 580-688 gr arrows with a 26" draw from a 50# bow using a 3pc LB with seal skin shelf using a 3-under draw.)