School me on selecting Arrows

[Rumpshot]

Primitive Archery Probably not what you are looking for, but a time sink nonetheless.

3Rivers Archery A constant source of annoyance and aggrevation. They have too many toys!

[blackeagle603]

A coworker (hardcore bow hunter) gave me a recommendation for his favorite archery shop. It's out in our end of the county (in Lakeside). I'll try getting by there in the next week.

[Matthew Mayner]

This thread really makes me want to get a stick bow again.

I just got one!

[308Mike]

A coworker (hardcore bow hunter) gave me a recommendation for his favorite archery shop. It's out in our end of the county (in Lakeside). I'll try getting by there in the next week.

If you're talking about the Bow-N-Arrow shop over on Los Coches Road in Lakeside, I've been there. I usually take our vehicles to the Lakeside Radiator & Auto Repair nearby for our damned SMOG TESTS (they are honest and do good work), and the archery shop is walking distance from there. The archery place has a relatively short indoor shooting range, but then you won't need a long range when using a bow-rig. I've enjoyed going there while killing time waiting for my smog tests to complete. Each time I've been tempted to spend some money on a new archery rig - and they have some GREAT ones too!!

Here's a street-level view of the shopping mall containing the shop:

9748 Los Coches Road, Lakeside, CA.jpg

As far as it being your friend's favorite shop, I can understand why, and if I was back into archery (we now have archery at the LGGC range), I would be in there MUCH more often and if I had the money for archery, that's where I'd spend it.

YMMV

[Flintlock Tom]

Has anyone else here managed to shoot themselves in the back with an arrow? I hope I'm not the only one.

I was a reckless pre-teen youth, I don't remember exactly how old I was. Some neighborhood kid had a bow that we were all shooting. The arrows had been shot into the dirt and rocks so much that they were "sharp as a marble".
I was fooling around and decided to fire straight up. As I watched the arrow disappear into the overcast sky I thought: Uh-oh! I didn't know which way to run so I hunched over and prayed. The arrow came straight back down, (because I was an awesome shot, ) it hit the middle of my back and bounced off.
Thank God, we didn't have any broadheads!

So, Dwight, be careful, "you'll shoot your eye out!"

[blackeagle603]

We used to stand in the pasture and shoot straight up in a contest to see who could land one closest. /facepalm/ If my kids ever... nevermind, they're past that stage.

Then we graduated to creative activities involving various types of powder, improvised tubular containment devices, improvised projectiles and fuses gained lawfully from gunsmith neighbor for his various turned miniature cannons. Not sayin' no more than that. On enough lists already as it is...