Saturday, May 13, 2006

One Arrow, One life

Last night i had an archery dream. i think the range was at a Home Depot...

Anyway, each lane was partitioned off with canvas tenting. I was given a bow; i was not allowed to use my own bow. The bow looked more like a club than a bow, and the string was bailing twine. the draw was short and, not really "weak", but "strange. It wasn't difficult to pull, but it was just wrong (but what do you expect from a bow made of a club with a string of twine.)

i was not allowed to use an arm guard or a finger tab, and every time i shot the string slapped my arm. The string dug into my fingers.

i took my spot at the shooting line. It was in a tent of sorts. i had to shoot through a hole in a wooden door with a glass window. The hole was in the glass window and didn't look like it would be big enough to PUSH an arrow through let alone SHOOT an arrow through. My station was at such an odd angle, that you couldn't actually even see the target, which was downhill from the shooting line.

The arrows i had to choose from were bent, broken, or missing fletching.

So, i'm using an inferior bow, trying to hit a target that not only can i not see, it's not even physically possible to hit it THROUGH an impossible obstacle with defective ammunition... and it's even causing me physical pain to try...

i woke up before i had a chance to make my one shot.

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