GMMAT,

You got me thinking about that target thing today while I unloaded about 30 shots in my target in the backyard in about 15-20 minutes. With all the practicing we do with foam targets, field points, etc., imagine the really old school hunters (and way back to the beginning of archery), practice must have been a real pain in the arse and somewhat limited. Aside from the huge changes in bow technology, if you had wood shafts and flint arrows, what did you shoot your arrows into for practice, and could you afford to break them having spent a couple days making one? It puts all this gear stuff into perspective. One day, after I feel I've accomplished something with a compoud bow, its that kind of stuff that makes me want to shoot recurve. If people did it for milennia with less, then I would like to think I could achieve it.