So I am at work talking to a fairly new hunter (3 years hunting) and I start talking of the distinctive (THWWWWack) sound an arrow makes inside an archery house/shop. Especially if there is a league going on.
My coworker tells me he has never shot indoors in his life? He said he has only shot outdoors?
I grew up shooting both in our backyard as a kid and at the local archery shop/house in Goshen, Ohio called (Primitive weapons) as a kid I always loved the sound of arrows hitting the wall.
Has anyone else NEVER shot indoors before?
Shooting at an outdoor range or my own range with friends is fun and I do enjoy that.
And yes, I know that sound very well.
Then there's the sound of the arrow hitting the floor and sliding down till it hits the wall.....
Also the sound of a release going off early and the arrow sticking in the plywood protecting the lights....
Then there's the sound that made just about everyone on the line let down without firing...... "Ohhh sh**!!" Which was generally proceeded by any number of weird sounds!!! LOL Many times by the sound of fresh, untouched cardboard being punched by an arrow!!!
I miss those sounds!!!
I am not sure where Spurlock had his taxidermy shop at before he moved it to BranchHill Guinee pike? Where he had a taxidermy and archery shop all under one roof.
Primitive weapons was located in Goshen just outside of Milford on Manilla Pike.
Yes Sir those exact sounds you are describing.
We also remember the laughs of our iron duck a steel plate shaped like a duck with a hole the size of a 50 cent piece that was the tie breaker target. If two guys who tied in a league shot 1 arrow rounds until somebody missed. And when you missed your arrow simply exploded!
Also the laughs of 10-12 archers laughing and chuckling and riding each other to improve each others form.
And I also remember the smell of a coffee pot brewing there as well.
For those that have shot inside an archery shop that echoing thwwwack sound of the arrow hitting the back wall/targets and even better when 4 or 5 arrows hit the wall/targets almost simutaniously......
If you are looking for a place to shoot, Broken Rack now has an indoor range. They are located over near the Clermont County regional airport. They do all the service on my bow. I keep meaning to go and shoot there, but never find the time.
I wish we had a good archery store closer over here. A taxidermy shop on Branchill-Guinea? Really? I friggin' live off that street!
The one I am talking about when I was a kid was on manilla road. It was about 3 miles further from spurlocks. PrI'm it I've weapons building last time I drove past was a piano refinishing company.
I hunt very close to your house from time to time. My old neighbor has 16 acres which butt up against the branch hill vfw.
Lots of deer around your subdivision.
You aim at the mounts.
Laurel was a 1 time Olympian in archery.
Based on what I see people aim all over the place at the range. The ceiling, The side wall, the chronograph if they have one likely has a hole through it. I'm not sure what some people are aiming at but field point holes everywhere.
I HAVE felt like flinging a few at a Wal Mart a time or two tho...lol
