Novelty Shoots

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Monotony probably drives more archers into re-tirement than age or any other factor. Over the years, a sur-prisingly large number of archers who do not hunt have laid aside the bow because of lack of variety in the shoots conducted by their local clubs. When a club offers nothing but the op-portunity to acquire an A rating and planning is directed solely to that end, the average bowman loses interest in tramp-ing the same course and shooting at the same targets day after day with the only objective the possibility of picking up a few more points to increase the total score for the round. The unvaried sameness of target shooting dulls an archer's interest in an even shorter length of time.

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