As much as I love guns, I'd like to expand my knowledge and skillset. I would like to know how I should start with archery, what kind of bow, where to go to learn how to shoot properly, and etc. I'm left eye dominant but I shoot guns better right handed and forcing dominance in my right eye. Should I do the same with archery?
On that, what sources should I go for HEMA? There's nowhere realistically close to me to train at so I'd suppose the best I could go is learn from books. Advice? What brand of sword should I look for?
Not op but im crippled an nogunz due to mental issues. Can i get a crossbow in oregon for home protection vs tweakers?
Eli Sullivan
You can probably order a BP handgun to your door. They don't count as firearms, federally, and only a few states restrict felons(even less restrict nutjobs) from owning them.
Nathan Hill
>On that, what sources should I go for HEMA? Well you should first know what type of weapon you would like to know or be interested in. Some weapons are more developped than others because they are the most studied (that would be longsword / rapier / sabre probably) but it doesn't stop you from looking at outliers, plus most old sources are usually free and some of the more "recent" are pretty usable as is (like the 19th century sabre sources).
Anthony Roberts
I also want to quietly shoot varmits and poach deer on muh property licking muh saltlick. Crossbow seems way to go just not sure on legality of posession.
Christian Clark
I'm mostly interested in long swords and the hand-to-hand that goes along with it. Any suggestions for the sources, free or otherwise? There were some books on Amazon I was considering ordering.
Matthew Russell
Well then you have sorta to choose italian or german and then regardless, wiktenauer.com has a big compendium for the two main longswords sources (Fiore dei Liberi / Liechtenauer Kunst des Fechtens). And then for modern books, Keith Farrell and/or Christian Tobler for the german side, Guy Windsor for the italian one are apparently pretty well received.
Joseph Flores
>take deer on my property quietly with a crossbow lol what, it's going to bleat like a maniac and run for miles while it bleeds.
Jayden Evans
Well user the four main types of Archery shooting styles that I would reccomend a beginer are: Compound Olympic Recurve Barebow Instinctive If you google them you'll be able to learn more however for me to be able to give you better advice user I first need to know what's your main goal with Archery? (Hunting, plinking, competitive, shoving it up your rectum, etc) As for the left eye dominant and right handed what we do on the club I'm an instructor at is to put an eyepatch on the left eye (Not the best solution but it's the most efficient for starters).
Jason Scott
do you have any baseline training? In anything?
Luke Cruz
Thanks a lot, senpai
Juan Davis
>On that, what sources should I go for HEMA?
Meyer's longsword is a bit "sporterised", you'll notice quite a shortage of thrusts for example, but on the plus side he's very understandable for a longsword master and a number of his plays would seem to make for decent pair exercises as well. Might be a decent place to start, it sorts under the very late German side of things. mediafire.com/file/byl72m2jmwtla5v/Meyer.pdf/file
For unarmed you're looking for "ringen", at least if we keep things German. IIRC most manuscripts there go back to the same original source, but I don't know which is the most complete/readable/beginner friendly.
Keep in mind that a raining partner is pretty much a must here to learn any fencing/wrestling, on your own you're probably at best just learning about fencing.
Not him but I started learning English longsword recently. Is there a reason it's not recommended alongside Italian and German besides the latter two being better documented?
Hudson Watson
I would say that it's much more cryptic (for what I've read anyway) and therefore open to false interpretations but I don't know much about it. It's also more recently worked so people have less familiarity with the systems. It's been at least a good decade or two since the german and italian sources for longsword in the modern HEMA have been studied so it's starting to look much more comprehensive.
Jason Garcia
That looks quite fumbly. They sure don't seem to know what to do with their left hand...
Get a Samick Sage and practice practice practice. Focus on form and technique. When you're ready get fitted at a pro shop and get a compound or Olympic recurve
Sebastian Davis
Is the mandarin duck wind runner okay?
Eli Reyes
I want to do hunting and plinking mostly And I gotcha with the eye patch thing. I just forced my right eye to focus on the front sight of guns
Dylan Perry
Now user you're in luck, because in that case I would suggest you get yourself a compound bow and I say you're in luck because that means I can paste my recomendation I gave some other user some time ago. -diamondarchery.com/bows/infinite-edge-pro-2/ Diamond archery nocked it out of the park with the Infinity Edge with a great lot of settings to allow for a kid to grow into his bow, the one bow for the entire family sporting a draw weight starting from 5 pounds all the way to 70 pounds allowing both your 8 year old kid to fire his bow to your 30 year old father hunting elk up in Alaska alongside a draw lenght selection from 13 to 30 inches, it also provides an effective "Let-off" (How much the bow relieves pressure on the shooter) of 75% an Axle to Axle (the overall lenght of the bow in itself) of 31 inches and 3.1 pounds of weight the bow riser (the main body) and the cams (the wheel looking things on both ends) are also made of aluminium making it a sturdy bow that will not fail you should you take rough care with it, now the link I provided you is the Diamond Infinity edge PRO which adds an extra inch of draw lenght for really tall dudes (As in you should be doing basketball not archery level of tall) and adds half an inch into Axle to Axle, an extra 5% to the Let-off and a 0.1 increase in weight, it's a great option for beginers and the customer service under the wing of their parent company Bowtech is nothing to make fun of today it has an MSRP of 399 freedom-dollars however here's a link of that bow with a full package minus the arrows to go out and shoot after you take it to an archery shop for tuning and probably guidance on your very first shots. lancasterarchery.com/2017-diamond-infinite-edge-pro-compound-bow-w-r-a-k-equipped-system.html
Samuel Gonzalez
-beararchery.com/product/av83b21007r/ This is another great option for a starting up bow, the Bear Cruzer G2 is the improved Cruzer much like the PRO is of the Infinity Edge, the improved Cruzer has a draw weight starting on 5 pounds to 70 pounds and a draw lenght from 12 to 30 inches as an AtA (Axle to Axle) of 30 inches, a Let-off of 70% and a total weight of 3 pounds, it shares plenty of similarities with the infinity edge however the total MSRP of it is 399 freedom-bucks and also outfitted with a full package minus arrows in my personal opinion it comes second to the Infinity Edge due to price and AtA while offering very little improvements. lancasterarchery.com/2018-bear-archery-cruzer-g2-rth-compound-bow-package.html At the end of the day I'd suggest you try both bows out and see for yourself which one feels better on the same settings and of course which one of the two sport the better looking aesthetic on your opinion. And with that my dearest user remember to support gun rights and may the love and light from the murder Jow Forumsube shine upon thee.
