shooting indoors

oldnut

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on sunday I shot my first indoor round this year. my glasses kept fogging and the feel of the draw on my face was a bit vague but at least I got to do some shooting! only allowed an hours slot but ok by me, I managed a Portsmouth and scored my average score so...
 

mbaker74

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Unless you want to keep your mask on for some reason, you are allowed to remove it completely when on the shooting line....
 

oldnut

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Unless you want to keep your mask on for some reason, you are allowed to remove it completely when on the shooting line....
I tend to shoot fast ( about 8 arrows to others 3) and fiddling about with a mask will annoy me by slowing me down. I have come up with a plan, swimmers nose clip and breath through a length of hose pipe with the end behind me! 😁
 

geoffretired

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I think the end of the hose needs to be vented into the outside air to be effective.
Might look quite fetching; or is that fletching?
 

mbaker74

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How would it slow you down? walk onto the line, slip your mask off, I hang mine on my spare arrow in my quiver.... shoot arrows at your normal speed, put mask back on, move off line?
 

8ballali

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It would be nice to be able to book a slot at the nearest indoor range, but i only have time to go that far on Saturdays, and it's booked weeks in advance. So I'm stuck with outdoors only.
 

dvd8n

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SAA has updated its guidance and, in a nutshell, nobody in Central Scotland (where pretty much everybody in Scotland lives) over the age of 18 is allowed to do indoor archery until further notice. On the one hand, it's a bummer, on the other hand I'm not sure that there was much indoor archery going on anyway.
 

geoffretired

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I think indoor archery is under valued. I don't mean competitions; I am thinking of the benefits to be had from short work and planned coaching. Clubs cab do a lot to keep archers shooting through the winter if there is an indoor range. We find a drop off in attendancies during the dec- april period and many never return after that. It's as if they find something else to do in their archery time during the bad weather months.
An indoor range can hold a club together.
 

Steve1968

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It's good to be indoors now with the weather getting colder, wetter, windier and darker.
 

oldnut

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I do indoor with one club on sundays, and outdoors on Saturdays with another, at the moment...
 

little-else

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no indoors for us this year, too few people to justify the expense and a nightmare to organise with the restrictions forced on us.
 
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