Competitions

Competitions are more of an advanced type of archery because you shoot at such far distances.Now if you are a big hunter this is probly not the thing for you because it takes a lot of pratice at a very far distance. When you hit the age of 13 you are consider a youth and you would shoot at 50 to 60 yards. If you are 16 and older it is any where from 60 to 80 yards.

The way you prepare for such a big event is by shooting your bow every day for about an hour or 2. The first thing you want to do is make sure your hands are right and you are comfortable with your bow. Second your bow has to be able to shoot that distance by putting your pin where you want to shoot.After all that all you have to keep doing is moving back 10 yards after it gets easy at like 20.The reason this isnt so big with hunters is because you need a target bow and you cant really shot a deer at 80 yards.

So if can shoot a far distance with your bow think about some archery competitions and see if you can shoot that far. Now those type of competions use bows that range from 800 dolars to 2000 with all the sights so you could be spending a lot of money so you will need some sponsors. That is all you need to do to get in state competitions.

Target Shooting/satistices

Target shooting is one of the easyer and more fun then anything esle. Mainly because it is all about you competing with yourself. It can be against other people at the higher and harder levels. Now if you just like to shoot a bow and have fun this is the way to go because all you are doing is shooting a target and keeping score to really see your progress. You would think it would get boring and to easy but really it never can because when ever you get bored then you just move farther away from the target and that makes it a lot harder.



Now shooting a bow doesnt just help with that it helps with other things. Like shooting a gun it makes it a lot easyer to shoot a gun if you have shot a bow. The biggest problem with bows is that they are so expensive to get and to maintain. Like right now i have seen arrow prices range from $20-80 for 6 arrows. That is a lot of money just to be target shooting. That doesnt even envolve how much it cost to shoot if things break on your bow.Now it sounds like a lot but if you pay for a hard case not a soft it will save your bow for a lot longer.