RE: Bowhunters - Competitive archery - do you do it?
My take on competitive archery in general…..It’s cool they’ve got some fancy gear & it takes great talent/skill/mental toughness to be good. Is it for me…..NOPE!
Paper punching……boring.
3D shoots…… don’t see the fun at all. It will do nothing to help my style of hunting. I’ve got better things to do when they normally run. And I’d probably get way too mad if people intentionally busted my arrows or I lost them on my own.
I never understood the draw of 3D shooting on a competitive level and its implication of importance to being a good bowhunter. I shoot deer where I need to kill them, not where I need to score well on them. I don’t need to do precise yardage estimations as my setups don’t really allow for that. And if so, they are pre-ranged.
I hear a lot of the questions about how can you be into bowhunting and not be into 3D? It’ll help you be a better shot, etc etc. Meanwhile most (not all) people I know heavy into 3D aren’t that great of hunters. Some excel greatly at both, that’s great for them. But I hardly think being good/enjoying 3D is a prerequisite for being good at/enjoying bowhunting.
Now that being said, I am signing up for an indoor traditional 3D league. But that is going to be fun, not competitive. And it’s the middle of winter while its dark outside. Not many other options for things better to do. I can easily see how some may like just hanging out with people shooting the breeze and shooting some targets. That’s fun. But for me the fun goes away when serious competition comes into play.