Archery Competition Events For Everyone

Archery competition events are fun and a great way to improve your archery skills. Competitions include all types of bows and archery shooting styles making it inclusive to all abilities and skill levels. Here are a few descriptions of the many events available worldwide.

Field Archery: Field archery adds a spark of adventure. In field archery archers shoot at targets in the woods or in rough terrain. Field archery is divided into different disciplines, field, hunter, and animal.
Field archery involves shooting at targets at different distances and often over rough ground. It consists of hitting targets up to 80 yards in even distances. Targets have a black bullseye with black outer and white inner rings. Youth competition in field archery uses the same targets but shoot at reduced distances.
The hunter discipline uses uneven yardage distances up to 70 yards. Targets consist of an all black ring with a white bullseye.
Animal competition uses life-size animal facsimiles at uneven distances for a more realistic environment.
Flight Competition: Flight bows are used to shoot for distance by different classes and weights. The best performance bows specifically designed for long distances are usually used in these events. Arrows are uniquely designed and are very short, many with barreled tapered shafts.Distance shoots are typically held on runways at airfields, dry lake beds, reservoirs, and desert plateaus to give archers lots of space.
Target archery competition: Target archery events are held both indoors and out. Indoor distances usually range from 18 to 25 meters; outdoor distances are usually 30 to 90 meters. Archers have a set time to shoot 3 or 6 arrows after which they score and retrieve them from the target. Targets have ten evenly spaced concentric rings with values from 1 to 10 and an inner ring called the "x" ring. Arrows touching a target ring are awarded the next higher score.
3D archery: 3D is similar to field archery. The course is always in a forest or wooded setting to allow for very challenging target positioning. Targets are usually plastic foam animal replicas. Unlike field archery, archers must estimate the distance to the target to replicate a real hunting experience. To save targets, field archery arrow tips are used instead of hunting tips.

Other archery competition events include crossbow, ski, roving, and wand shoots along with many others. Archery is actually one of the few sports on the globe that permits men, women, and persons with limited mobility to compete on equal terms. If you are new to the sport, you will surely find a competitive venue that suits your skill level.

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