Have been shooting a double York this weekend in very windy weather and the weekend was undoubtably ruined by the use of A frame stands.
This weekends count of completely un-neccesary breakages (for 4 archers) was 7 X10's and 6 ACE's all done for in the red on the 7/8 line, if H frame stands had been used there would have been no breakages.
Now dont get me wrong I accept that arrows are consumables and get broken, sometimes shooting good groups and smashing them or the odd one that I just get wrong and gets smashed on a leg then I accept that.
Being told by a member of the field party in a jovial manner that "well you can afford it" is not what you need to hear, my response now I am calm enough to write this is, if you are holding an open shoot why not make some proper ******* stands and give the archers a chance of not running up a 3 figure bill (on top of petrol and accomodation costs) you were happy enough to take my ****** money so how about providing for all the archers attending your fudging shoot!!!!!!!!!!!
This weekends count of completely un-neccesary breakages (for 4 archers) was 7 X10's and 6 ACE's all done for in the red on the 7/8 line, if H frame stands had been used there would have been no breakages.
Now dont get me wrong I accept that arrows are consumables and get broken, sometimes shooting good groups and smashing them or the odd one that I just get wrong and gets smashed on a leg then I accept that.
Being told by a member of the field party in a jovial manner that "well you can afford it" is not what you need to hear, my response now I am calm enough to write this is, if you are holding an open shoot why not make some proper ******* stands and give the archers a chance of not running up a 3 figure bill (on top of petrol and accomodation costs) you were happy enough to take my ****** money so how about providing for all the archers attending your fudging shoot!!!!!!!!!!!