(January 24, 2015 at 7:23 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Oh, you have? Ok. Usually when someone brings up the idea of buying from a store instead of hunting, it's because they don't hunt.
Yes I know archery isn't the most useful skill in a first world country, but it's a nice hobby that looks cool and builds upper body strength. Physical fitness is always useful. What would you rather say? That you spend your time lifting weights, or that you spend your time riding through the glen, firing arrows into the sunset?
Wedged in a movie reference there.
Perfectly true. I don't hunt, never have. I consider it an idiotic, useless pastime. But I grew up on a farm, where I butchered (or assisted in butchering) cattle, sheep, pigs, and fowl. And to forestall you, I've heard every argument in favour of hunting, and not a single one of them is worth a damn. If you hunt, it isn't for food, or to thin the herds or to manage populations of animals, blah blah blah. It's because you like killing things, but hunters never admit that.
Sure, archery is good exercise, and the Dane in the video seems frightfully good at it, not taking anything away from him. But archery has no value as a skill, that's all.
I don't ride. I find horses terrifying.
Boru
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