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- From: tang@akofin.enet.dec.com (Gabe Tang)
- Subject: Re: darkness
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.195120.29302@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
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- Date: 23 NOV 92 14:51:08 EST
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- re: (Paul Scott Bartelt) .....
- >
- > I've got a question for all you bonfide arhers out there....
- >A few years ago, ......
- >shoot at). My boss, mildly impressed, then shut off all the lights to
- >my dismay. He told me to shoot at what I 'know' not what I 'see'.
- >Of the 3 shots I took in the dark (it was almost as black as the
- >screen you are reading this of of) all three hit the back stop. Mind
- >you they didn't hit the plate I put up as a target but they were
- >close. Not being an instinctive shooter (pins and release) I thought i
- >did prety good. Has any body else tried blind shooting. I suppose this
- >would be much easier for instinctive shooters, but the target was not
- >visible and even they need to aim at an object. Some of you long bow
- >and recurve guys should have some input.
-
- Hey PB,
-
- Have you been reading the alt.sport.darts group at all? I just put
- in a message about shooting darts in the night with no lights on....
- and compared it to shooting archery in the dark too a couple of weeks
- ago. Check out the classic "Zen and the Art of Archery" book. Old,
- probably have to find a good public library system.
-
- be the arrow.....
-
- -old recurve guy :-}
-