“Nothing calms a troubled mind like shooting a bow.”
You may have read this sentence before, perhaps more than once. It is usually attributed to the manufacturer and bowhunter Fred Bear, who died in 1988. It’s certainly a pithy summation of what people outside the sport imagine it to be.
Personally, I have never found it to be true. Whenever I’ve tried to go and shoot with a bunch of things on my mind, I’ve found that
