Archery Safety Issue

We are each responsible for our own personnel safety. Can life be any other way? No one but us makes the decisions, and we have all control that anybody has. We need to pay attention to our own lives, or own actions and take responsibility for our own life, in all aspects.

There is a safety issue when too short of an arrow is used, and the arrow is pulled of the arrow rest, and the arrow is then discharged, loosed, or released. The arrow can drive into the hand of the archer. Fortunately the two recent occurrence did not result in any serious injury. One became a self shot, the other was recognized and grabbed by a coach.

The first event was a "wrong, too short, arrow", the second was "pull behind their ear"; an ignore the anchor issue. There is also a third way, that is growth of an archer during the lesson season. Either way, a substantial hand injury could occur, or a wild arrow goes down range.

The only way to prevent this is to have the archer pay attention to what they are doing with both hands themselves. This is the limiting characteristic, the maturity level required to safely train archers. It is the old rub your belly and pat your head at the same time test. Some children are just too immature to use pointed objects.

Selecting the arrow length required is dependent on the style of archery; that is depending on the style of bow and anchor point, the arrow length will be different. If you use a traditional face anchor style, do not do a draw behind the ears with the same arrow. This is a problem with youth when they become tired and have used toy bows and pulled beyond the ear. Note that the pull beyond the ear is a valid instinctual style, but the equipment must match the style.