Sharing ranges with compound bows

[Weylin]

I live in Portland and as far as I know there is only one free, public range to shoot bows. Lately when I have gone there to shoot in a couple of my self longbows there have been several people with their fancy hightech laser sighted compound missle launcers shooting from a mile away. It's not that there isn't enough space for me to shoot its that I'd like to shoot from half the range which obviously isn't feasible to do at the same time that they are shooting. Has anyone here had similar experiences and if so how did you handle it?

Weylin

[woodstick]

if they start on target 1 i allways go ahead of them say 5 or 6 then come back to the targets i miss. we have all trad clubs down here, i also shot a compound and i allways let trads go ahead of me cause when i shoot my sticks it may get me a favour in return.

[sailordad]

most ranges near me are indoor 20yd ranges
there is one outdoor near by
it has a 3d course and a standard range
the standard range has bails at 10,20,30 yds etc all the way to 110 yds
all of which have their own shooting stations
most times when the wife and i go there we are the only ones there
but if the wheelie guys are there i do like woodstick does
either let them go first,or try and stay 5 targets ahead of them

[FlintWalker]

Best way I know to handle it is either hand them a self bow to shoot or buy your own target and shoot somewhere else. 

[Justin Snyder]

I would rather be water boarded than shoot with most of the compound guys. I can hang out with them before or after but not during.  They get impatient because I don't want to shoot 60 yards and I get impatient waiting for them to play with all their mechanical stuff. I could shoot 6 arrows in the time they shoot 1 sometimes.

[Scowler]

Perhaps you could convince whomever runs this range to install some shorter range targets?  If not then maybe you can take your own target to the range?

[cracker]

Weylin I feel for you brother I'm frortunate enough to have a yard big enough to be able to shoot any distance I like uf to about 80 yds. I have two targets on oposite ends of the range I choose to shoot. I shoot one set of arrows usually 3 walk to them pull them and shoot in the other direction. Ron

[Weylin]

Thanks for the replies. to clarify, it is a simple range with one row of hay bales all next to each other so the archers stand together and shoot at the same bales the entire time. So unfortunately I don't have the option of going ahead of them on the course. The only option is for everyone to stand side by side to shoot. so either I would have to shoot from a mile away with them (which wouldn't be very fun or helpful to me) or I would have to make them move up to where I want to shoot from shich I'm sure would piss them off if they'd even do it.

[Young Bowyer]

My range has short range targets so im in luck 

[Will H]

I used to shoot my selfbow at a range in golden gate park, San Francisco. It was as you said basically a field with a row of butts or hay bale style targets. Every one there was shooting compounds from like 80yds. I just walked right up to the first open bale and started shootin at 20yds with arrows screaming past on all sides. It was pretty crazy! Finally I figured out when most folks didn't use the range...when it rains! So I had some soggy days of shooting the whole time I lived in CA. 

[Pappy]

I have to agree with Justin on this one, I won't hardly go to a shoot where  wheels are There,nothing aganist them , just don't want to shoot with them.  :)To practice I am lucky and don't have to deal with that. 
   Pappy

[Polar Bear]

If you can find a place just go stump shooting.

[El Destructo]

Hay Bales...Man .... I would not waste a Arrow on a Hay Bale...not with my Compound...would not have any Feathers left ...my Bow shoots through a Round Bale...Arrows come out "Sans Plumes".....thats Less feathers in French....

As for shooting with Wheelie People...I am lucky...I practice at Home...but at the Range...they have to set Stakes for Me to Shoot...Just like Pappy Does for Recurves and Primitives....at the Proper Ranges...and I shoot and take as much time as I need...I could give a Rats Back Door what they are thinking!!

[Justin Snyder]

I just walked right up to the first open bale and started shootin at 20yds with arrows screaming past on all sides. It was pretty crazy!

Not pretty crazy, it is ABSOLUTELY NUTS! I know someone who caught an arrow in the back of his head and it came out his eye. He was conscious until they got him to the hospital where they put him in a medically induced coma. He died a couple of days later.

Ill shoot in the backyard (by myself) thanks.

[Mangeur de lard]

You could maybe bring your own target to the range and put it at 10-15 yards (or whatever you are comfortable with). I just make mine out of cardboard boxes ( 2 feet x 2 feet x 1 foot approx) filled with whatever (foam, plastic bags, packaging foam, raw wool, it all works).

Thats what i'd do.
Cheers
MAtt