3 Archery Etiquette Truths You May Not Know
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If you manged to find a local archery club to take archery lessons or a public archery range, you need to follow certain guidelines that will help you enjoy your hobby and let others have a good experience too.
One of the most important guidelines is to shoot no more than 6 arrows at the same time. It’s usually a good rule of thumb to shoot just 3 arrows since that’s number of arrows you shoot at a tournament. Besides, if you’re always shooting 6 arrows or more at once and if you’re a beginner, there’s a big possibility that people are going to be annoyed with you since they need to wait a lot of time for their turn. We sure don’t want that.
It never ceases to amaze me how many people at the local archery ranges fail to follow this rule. There’s especially one “wannabe” archer here, at my local archery range, that’s an expert in pissing people off by not following this rule. I mean, if you see that there are a bunch of people behind you waiting for their turn, at least be fair enough to reduce your firing salvo to 6 arrows not freaking 10 arrows! Please don’t be that guy/girl.
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The other thing you need to take into account when attending public archery ranges is to keep a certain distance between you and the archer who’s shooting. Usually you need to wait about 10 feet behind the firing line. This is where the waiting line starts, unless you’re coaching the guy. In that case you want to be close.
A nice thing to do if you see a fellow archer looking for his arrow is to go and help him/her. I always look for my arrows if I miss the target since I’m not that rich to just loose my $30 arrow like that. My life motto goes something like this: “Give and you shall receive.” If you help a person out, I’m sure somebody will help you out when you need it.
If I haven’t gone through this awesome archery course, I probably wouldn’t know squat about archery range etiquette. I would probably be like that guy, that shoots too many arrows at once. This is the single best course about archery that I’ve managed to find on the internet. I highly recommend it!
These are ones of the most important archery lessons that you need to know. I think if you follow these guidelines you’re on your way on becoming the archery saint of your local range.
PS: Please no more than 6 arrows! 
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