Good stuff sarjan.... I bought a compound bow at UFL near kepong... a month ago.....They are the main distributor of archery stuff in Malaysia...

Anyway, a friend make use of an empty cemetery area... got good 200m of unused land that we make a shooting range... So we place a target given by SUKMA people... got 4~5 of them.. so we put them at 20m, 50m and 90m... Got great fun...

I was advised to get a compound by an experienced UFL guy. Now have been shooting for a month. No regret. I will surely get a recurve in the future, but a compound really drop my jaw looking at the power and speed of the arrow hitting the target....

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Added on July 29, 2012, 9:17 pmHere is our self made archery range... members only



This post has been edited by Masculine: Jul 29 2012, 09:17 PM

first of all, i'm just started shooting a month ago. So take my comment with a pinch of salt...

i believe in the olympic they using a recurve bow shooting a target 70m away. I think (i say here, i think) recurve arrow speed is slower compared to arrow coming out of compound bow. Therefore, olympians have to aim higher to reach the distance.

I shoot compound bow. According to the bow specification, my arrow speed is somewhere 270~300km/h. When I shoot target 50m away and there is very little drop. Almost a straight line. I can hear the thump sound of the arrow hitting the target almost immediately.

For the olympics, i dont tthink the athlete shoot base on feeling. They got the bow sight and make adjustment accordingly....

just my 2 cents.... saya budak baru belajar...