Many people do not see what I do when they walk upon the archery shooting range. Why would anyone stand there for hours in the blazing hot sun shooting bows? For people who do not shoot archery it is just an empty field that has different distances marked off. To me it means everything. Archery is a very demanding activity, both mentally and physically, and the whole season leads up to one important night. The archery shooting range is an open field full of bright green grass and lots of heavy brown square targets all lined up in rows. The first Tuesday practice starts off the whole season. The hundreds of shooters all climb out of their cars dragging behind them all their gear. They then pick their spot next to someone they want and unpack
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The score that we get at a fair shoot determines what ribbon we get at the fair and what place we take. This night a pen could be heard dropping to the ground. Everything has to go very meticulous this night, so that the coaches can score our targets. Also we have to make it through all fourteen rounds. Each round the shooter walks down to their target and stops at the blazing white line that gets etched in the grass in front of it. Moving past the line the shooter pushes their luck and gets a big zero instead of what they shot. A 300 is a perfect score because we shoot five arrows every round and each arrow can end up worth five points. If we do not hit the mark we hope for, we sulk the whole time we are stripping the range of our existence. In conclusion, one thing in our lives that is monstrously important will always be the archery shooting range. Even though to someone that does not shoot archery it seems stupid. To us shooters, it seems like the whole world revolves around it. Archery is a very demanding activity, both mentally and physically, and the whole season leads up to one important night. I look forward to every Tuesday night that I get to go out to the range and work hard for my favorite activity. Shooting is not everything, but it will always take up a major part of the lives of us shooters out
The score that we get at a fair shoot determines what ribbon we get at the fair and what place we take. This night a pen could be heard dropping to the ground. Everything has to go very meticulous this night, so that the coaches can score our targets. Also we have to make it through all fourteen rounds. Each round the shooter walks down to their target and stops at the blazing white line that gets etched in the grass in front of it. Moving past the line the shooter pushes their luck and gets a big zero instead of what they shot. A 300 is a perfect score because we shoot five arrows every round and each arrow can end up worth five points. If we do not hit the mark we hope for, we sulk the whole time we are stripping the range of our existence. In conclusion, one thing in our lives that is monstrously important will always be the archery shooting range. Even though to someone that does not shoot archery it seems stupid. To us shooters, it seems like the whole world revolves around it. Archery is a very demanding activity, both mentally and physically, and the whole season leads up to one important night. I look forward to every Tuesday night that I get to go out to the range and work hard for my favorite activity. Shooting is not everything, but it will always take up a major part of the lives of us shooters out