Random thought just popped into my head, which I'm sure some of you have already had before and may have been discussed before.
We all know that by nature compound bows are a more accurate bow type compared to recurve/longbow. Before anyone starts moaning I'm aware it takes a lot of skill to shoot competitively with compound and this isn't what the topic is about.
Because already the compound has a smaller 10 ring for indoors, having that smaller 10 ring throws the 9 ring bigger and disproportionate to the other colours. Would it not be an idea then to reduce the size of the whole target? I know this would mean that only compounds could shoot on that target, and it's another target for clubs to have to buy etc.
But wouldn't it also lower the scores, which if you think about it could be a good thing. the national indoor record for a FITA compound unlimited is 597, and for a Portsmouth is 594, as you can see these are near perfect scores, the Worcester record is a perfect score. So would it not make sense to reduce the target sizes to make things harder.
Now before grumbling happens other sports have done similar things e.g. javelin has actually increased the standard weights because the throwers were getting closer and closer to the max available range.
Looking at the records http://www.archerygb.org/tools/documents/TargetIndoorDetailedApr2011-[11535].pdf It maybe an idea to reduce the target sizes anyway as recurves are getting close to perfect scores as well.
As I say, a random thought, but what are people's opinions?
We all know that by nature compound bows are a more accurate bow type compared to recurve/longbow. Before anyone starts moaning I'm aware it takes a lot of skill to shoot competitively with compound and this isn't what the topic is about.
Because already the compound has a smaller 10 ring for indoors, having that smaller 10 ring throws the 9 ring bigger and disproportionate to the other colours. Would it not be an idea then to reduce the size of the whole target? I know this would mean that only compounds could shoot on that target, and it's another target for clubs to have to buy etc.
But wouldn't it also lower the scores, which if you think about it could be a good thing. the national indoor record for a FITA compound unlimited is 597, and for a Portsmouth is 594, as you can see these are near perfect scores, the Worcester record is a perfect score. So would it not make sense to reduce the target sizes to make things harder.
Now before grumbling happens other sports have done similar things e.g. javelin has actually increased the standard weights because the throwers were getting closer and closer to the max available range.
Looking at the records http://www.archerygb.org/tools/documents/TargetIndoorDetailedApr2011-[11535].pdf It maybe an idea to reduce the target sizes anyway as recurves are getting close to perfect scores as well.
As I say, a random thought, but what are people's opinions?