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Jacob Benschjöld

Jacob Benschjöld

Swedish compound archer and World Archery field competitor representing Sweden at international championships including the European Games

Jul 22, 2026

16:01
But walk me through kind of like your, um, you know, judging process for how you judge the distance on targets, 'cause I think that's kind of unclear for a lot of people that don't shoot field.
16:12
Yeah, that was, that was one of the things that really shook me when I got into it, that like, "What, you guys aren't judging on the ground?" 'Cause that was a-- That's what I was doing, like, before I started really training hard for national teams and stuff.
16:28
Like, I had no idea how to judge distance with my scope, and so I went to the all marked field competitions and did pretty well there, and then I realized that, you know, I could probably figure this out and do pretty well on the, on the unmarked part as well.
16:44
So basically, the first thing we have to do is decide or figure out which target we're shooting, 'cause there's four different ones.
16:52
There's the tiny one, the 20 centimeter, which will be in a three spot.
16:56
Uh, that one's self-evident.
16:59
Uh, you can tell right when you approach the peg like, "Oh, this is gonna be a 20 meter target," which means that for unmarked, it's gonna be between 10 and 15 meters.

19 MINS LATER

35:56
What, what exactly does that mean?

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