Retrieving your own

[unconciousarrower]

I recently shot a 3D round with a chap who was shooting an 80# bow .
Now I don't have a problem with 80# bows.
But I do have a problem with being expected to help pull his arrows, It took 3 Grown men to pull every one.
As a result I hurt my shoulder and weeks later it is still not right.
I gladly retrieve my own arrows and others if the designated arrow remover is having trouble or if my group is made up of women and juniors.At Charleville I scored and retrieved as I was placed with 2 juniors.
So In the future if you bury them too deep you can dig em out yourself.

[Feral]

I agree with you on this matter and i have had to score and pull arrows in certain groups. I know it is your choice to shoot the type of bow you you want and that is up to you but you shouldnt impose your choices on to others . I wouldnt help a person with high poundage bows pull arrows either for the same reasons you discribed and in a compertition i would expect the owner of the arrows that are difficult to remove to pull his own arrows.
I shoot 60lb compound and find the arrows are at times hard to remove.

[Mark Burrows]

Lucky he wasn't shooting with me as I would have just snapped them off and moved on. There is no way my shoulder is going to handle that.

[Dewi]

I often request that I be permitted to retrieve my own arrows as I have had a few expensive ones damaged.
I am happy to remove arrows but if someone has a setup that burries them in making it unreasonably difficult I am equally happy to leave them in the target and walk away. If they cannot remove them on their own they will soon learn their lesson, unless they carry 20 in their quiver.

[Feral]

Mark your getting old and grumpy

[Mark Burrows]

Mark your getting old and grumpy

Nah ! Not getting. GOT.

[Cabba]

Shooting an 80# bow on targets is a bit of over kill, but each to their own.

I probably wouldv'e offered a hand on the first couple of targets but after that they would have been on their own. Why should you stuff yourself up for the rest of the shoot because of someone elses choices.

Everyone in a group should have a job, 2 scorers & 2 arrow pullers taking turns (unless you have junior in the group of course), but even then some juniors are willing to give a hand either scoring or pulling arrows. Especially the older juniors. I have known some guys to have scored & pulled arrows for 4 days in a comp while others stood around talking to their mates in the next group. This takes the fun right out of shooting especially if you yourself have a shoulder or wrist problem.

I also know of some guys that can't grab the score sheets quick enough so they don't have to pull arrows. As far as I am concerned if you can't pull them, then don't shoot them.

I think there should only be one junior at the most in a shoot group at an official shoot. There is usually enough groups to split the juniors amongst. Not fair on the adults to multi task (score/pull arrows) when some of these junior bows can stick them in just as good as the adult bows.

I don't mind pulling arrows on paper targets but when it comes to 3D's even some of mine at 40# stick in pretty good, so there is no way I will pull arrows on a 3D that is twice the poundage as mine.