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Offline Pat B

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Archery terms
« on: December 06, 2014, 02:17:28 pm »
Somewhere in my archery history I saw a list of sayings that came from archery. A few examples are "the parting shot" and " the rule of thumb". Does anyone remember where it might be located, what book(s) it might be in or where I might look.
 If you know of any, please list them here.  Thanks
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Re: Archery terms
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2014, 02:32:22 pm »
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Offline JEB

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Re: Archery terms
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2014, 02:56:06 pm »
Maybe:  Archery by Natalie Reichert and Gilman Keasey, 1961
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Archery terms
« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2014, 03:04:11 pm »
DC, that's not the list I was thinking of but it has a lot of the same terms. Thanks.
JEB, that is a book I don't have. I'll have to look it up.
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Re: Archery terms
« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2014, 03:13:40 pm »
I had always heard that "Rule of thumb" meant that you could not beat your wife with a stick larger than your thumb.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thumb

Scroll down to "thumbs used for abuse"

I like the fistmele idea better :)
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Offline Dharma

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« Reply #5 on: December 06, 2014, 05:02:55 pm »
It's most likely a history book. "Parting shot" actually comes from "Parthian shot", the practice of horse-borne Parthians to turn and around and loose an arrow as it appeared they were fleeing.
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Offline chamookman

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Re: Archery terms
« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2014, 04:40:07 am »
I had a bunch of words come to mind that I've heard on the 3-d course, but can't use them on this site  :o ;D. Bob
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Archery terms
« Reply #7 on: December 07, 2014, 09:29:04 am »
Bob, I know and have used at least most of those words but I was looking for other archery related phrases.  ;D
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