Rotating Archery Target With Multiple Aiming Zones
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current archery targets are expensive, difficult to move, and limited in versatility, often representing only a single animal type, which restricts practice scenarios for bow hunters seeking realistic hunting conditions.
Innovation Solution
An archery target system featuring a modular design with adjustable and replaceable aiming zones on a target body that can be rotated or flipped to simulate different animal sizes and types, supported by a versatile mounting frame that allows for various orientations and heights, enabling practice on multiple animal types with a single target.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate targets are used to represent different animal types, then versatility of practice scenarios is improved, but cost and storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The target body is designed with multiple aiming zones that can represent different animal types (deer, bear, boar, etc.). By rotating the target body to different orientations, each aiming zone can be positioned to simulate the vital organ region of a different animal, allowing a single target to serve multiple functions and replace the need for multiple separate targets.
Solution Approach 2:
The target body is made rotatable on the stand, allowing dynamic reconfiguration of the aiming zones. This rotational capability enables the user to switch between different animal simulations by simply rotating the target to different angles, providing versatility without requiring multiple static targets.
2Adaptability or versatility
If life-size three-dimensional animal targets are used, then realism of hunting conditions is improved, but ease of movement and manufacturing cost worsen
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of creating multiple complete three-dimensional animal targets, the invention segments the animal representation into multiple aiming zones on a single target body. Each aiming zone represents the vital organ region of a different animal, and by rotating the target, different animal simulations are achieved. This segmentation reduces manufacturing complexity and cost while maintaining realism.
Solution Approach 2:
The target uses two-dimensional or simplified three-dimensional aiming zones that copy the essential features (vital organ regions) of different animals rather than creating full-scale three-dimensional animal models. This copying approach maintains the realism needed for hunting practice while significantly reducing manufacturing complexity and cost.
3Measurement precision
If multiple targets are used to represent different animal sizes, then accuracy of training for different game types is improved, but difficulty of moving and storing targets increases
Solution Approach 1:
The target body incorporates multiple aiming zones of different sizes and configurations, each suitable for training with different animal types. By rotating the target to different orientations, the user can access different aiming zones without needing to move or store multiple separate targets, significantly improving ease of operation while maintaining training accuracy.
Data Source
AI summary
A target may allow target practice and/or simulate the shape of one or more animals. In various implementations, a target may include a target body and/or stand. The target body may be capable of receiving shots from arrows and/or ammunition. A target body may include a first aiming zone and a second aiming zone on an opposing surface. In some implementations, the first aiming zone and/or the second aiming zone may be off center. The orientation of the target body may be altered to select an aiming zone of the target body based upon user preference, in some implementations. The overlay may have shape similar to a predetermined animal. The overlay may be replaceable. The stand may support the target body. In various implementations, an overlay may be coupled to the target body and/or stand.