How to Set Up an Archery Range

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Michelle O'Donnell, I'm an archer here at Fort Lauderdale Archers in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In this clip we're going to be discussing how to set up an archery range. We are currently at Fort Lauderdale Archers and we are on their flint range. And as you can see at this current time, we have different distances, this is our practice range. We currently, we shoot at these type of bails, these bails are made here at our range for us, and we shoot into sound board. That's one of the materials that we shoot into. There's different types of materials that you can shoot into, but this the one that seems to work well for us. So I'm going to go ahead and show you as you, as you can see there are covered, all of our range, flint range here is covered. We shoot into the sound board, we have ability to shoot at night here, which is a major asset for many of us who work. At this current time, I'm going to go ahead and put up my target. I have an NFAA Indoor target, this is what we generally shoot at closer distances. So we have our stationery pins here for our targets, I'm going to go ahead and put these in. And now my target is set for me, ready to go and shoot. As you can see at the range here, we start off with different increments, we have increments usually of about ten yards each. We start off at twenty and then we go to thirty, forty, fifty and sixty. We set these up, so then when we're setting up our bow, we have all of our marks. We write down our marks for the different distances. This has been Michelle O'Donnell, Fort Lauderdale Archers, thank you for watching."