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Offline islandpiper

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Archery is good excercise!!
« on: October 06, 2008, 06:30:04 pm »
My wife has been after me to walk more.   Well, an old buddy gave me one arrow today, so that's better than yesterday, when I didn't have any!   So, here's the drill: 

Shoot arrow

Walk to retrieve arrow

Walk Back

Shoot arrow

Repeat several dozen times. 

My Wife's gonna love this new hobby of mine. 

Piper

Offline ZanderPommo

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Re: Archery is good excercise!!
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2008, 06:42:42 pm »
try flight shooting! ;)

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Offline Kegan

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Re: Archery is good excercise!!
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2008, 09:22:51 pm »
Shoot at 60 yards 15 times, and you'll have walked over a mile. Shooting a 50# bow, and you'll have lifted over 700# in "weight".

Archery is defiantely good exercise ;D!

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Re: Archery is good excercise!!
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2008, 11:39:49 pm »
haha! try javelin too ;D
Walk slowly, with a big stick. -Ted Rosevelt.

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Re: Archery is good excercise!!
« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2008, 05:39:55 pm »
Don't forget shotput!!!

Offline stiknstring

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Re: Archery is good excercise!!
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2008, 07:12:20 pm »
Caber tossing is good exercise....but I have to be honest there is a lot to be said for grabbing a quiver full of blunts and walking up and down mountains chasing pinecones, cans, and the occasional rabbit... ;D

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Re: Archery is good excercise!!
« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2008, 07:14:03 pm »
i know another good form of excersize, just cant discuss it hear cause this is a family friendly site >:D
i always wanted a harley,untill it became the "thing to ride"
i ride because i love to,not to be part of the crowd

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Re: Archery is good excercise!!
« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2008, 07:41:31 pm »
Atl-atl?
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Offline ZanderPommo

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Re: Archery is good excercise!!
« Reply #8 on: October 07, 2008, 08:04:47 pm »
 :D :D :D

Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Archery is good excercise!!
« Reply #9 on: October 08, 2008, 10:42:50 am »
I tried golf as excercise...all I excercised was my vocabulary!  Golf is just the word "flog" spelled backwards as far as I can tell. 

Now I hear some folks on the west coast play a form of archery golf....hmmm, lemme see, longbow for a driver, then a shorter flatbow for chipping, and a Lakota horsebow for the putt.  Oh yeah, I gotta try this!
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Re: Archery is good excercise!!
« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2008, 11:49:00 am »
I don't even have to be shooting to get good exercise from archery practice......"Daddy, can you go get the arrows?" ;D

I just can't help myself.
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Re: Archery is good excercise!!
« Reply #11 on: October 08, 2008, 12:27:44 pm »
i know another good form of excersize, just cant discuss it hear cause this is a family friendly site >:D
No you can talk about archery.

 ;) :D :D

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Re: Archery is good excercise!!
« Reply #12 on: October 08, 2008, 11:10:48 pm »
 haha, maybe take turns being moving targets, with rabbit blunts ;D ;D ;)
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« Reply #13 on: October 09, 2008, 12:53:03 am »
haha, maybe take turns being moving targets, with rabbit blunts ;D ;D ;)

i used to shoot blunts,out of my blow gun,at my kids and their friends. it was a blast and they seemed to like it too. go figure

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i always wanted a harley,untill it became the "thing to ride"
i ride because i love to,not to be part of the crowd

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Re: Archery is good excercise!!
« Reply #14 on: October 09, 2008, 07:51:39 pm »
Blunts hurt though ;D. Even a kid's bow, caught on the elbow, smarts pretty badly. Who'd have imagined that one?