Archery Games - Bionic Buck

Bionic Buck

Where only the most skilled and willing shooter with great quantities of arrows apply, a bionic buck competition features archers attempting to shoot through a small hole in the kill area of a cast iron steel deer target. The hole size varies from two to four inches (102 mm) in diameter. Typically the archer is placed twenty yards (18.2 m) from the bionic buck and given however many chances they have to succeed; success means having the arrow go through the hole, or otherwise if the arrow hits any the steel it will immediately drive the tip of the arrow back and shatter the arrow be it made of wood, aluminum, or carbon. Such a challenge usually can boost the ego of any archer, especially those who do not use sights or other mechanical means to 'sight' the target hole, but many more suffer the humiliation of hitting the dreaded Bionic Buck; their misses very audible. A version of this type of target can be found at an American Archery club in the UK. Liberty Archers, at R.A.F. Lakenheath, have a very good and quite famous (in N.F.A.S. circles) target called RoboDeer. Robodeer is a half sized deer made from steel cheqerplate with a 3-inch (76 mm) hole cut out for the kill area.