Medieval Archery was pretty simple, there was a target, made of wood or sometimes it was just a mark o a tree. The bow was carved from wood and the string was generally made from twine. the arrows were carved from wood or a extremely straight stick, the end generally had some sort of birds feathers.
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Medieval archery was used for hunting for food and defending the house or castle. It is basically the same as the sport of archery that is around today, you shoot arrows at a target with a bow.
Archery - the use of the bow and arrow - predates the Middle Ages by several millenia.
Beautifully formed arrowheads of flint and chert have been found all over the world dating to at least 6,000 ago, and possibly well before that.
They used archery to hunt, and maybe even (if they had livestock) to kill attacking predators.
Archery is normally practiced, as a Competition Sport, on an archery range. Although an archery range can sometimes be located in the center area of a running track (that circular track used for running sports) at the local high-school or college, many archery ranges are located in archery stores (perfect for winter-time archery) and parks, the ranges located in parks are usually for the use of the general Public, free of charge. There are even ranges which are built separate from other sport fields and arenas.
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Field tips are small points used for shooting at targets.
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