This is the first in a series of posts about games that you can play with a group of friends while improving your archery skills. Everyone I know who shoots regularly complains about shooting the same dots on the same targets day after day. Get out of the rut! Put excitement back into target practice! Add target games to your regular routine of shooting.
One of my all time favorites is a game called Archery Poker. Played with the right incentive, its a good way to have a little fun, practice your shooting skills, and gain mucho bragging rights.
Take a standard size target bag, deck of cards, and some double sided sticky tape, place cards across the target bag until the full deck is used. Now depending on if you want to shoot skill or luck, place cards face up or face down. Now remember spacing is critical, the wider the spacing, the better chance of the “BIG FAT ZERO”, forevermore known as BFZ.
Agree on the incentive, pace off a decent distance, 40 to 50 yards is good, depending on the skill of the archers involved. Decide which game of poker you are playing and number of arrows each participant is allowed to shoot downrange. Choose if you are going to shoot one archer at a time or multiple archers with the ability to steal cards. Line up and fire away.
Let the trash talking begin.
Now there are many variations to this game and its only limited the the game you choose and your imagination. Instead of using a deck of cards, paper poker targets are available. The idea is to add variety to shooting the same old spots day after day. Try it and enjoy.
Tags: archery, games, poker, things with a bow
