Funny Archery Puns!

Here is a page of funny, cute and occasionally clever puns about Archery. 

This ancient method of hunting and warfare was a vital part of our ancestors' lives.  ​Targets would have been used as a step towards to the real purpose of bow and arrow. 

The bow being arguably the best long range weapon before the invention of gunpowder.

Successful archers would eat well and survive.   Nowadays bows are mostly used against competition targets rather than wild boar or the French.

Here are the puns.

Puns

angry archers use a crossbow
designing arrow-proof castle - architect
dress for dinner - wear a bow tie


exercise for archers - arrowbics
flat-footed archer - ooh me arches

hairless archer - Archibald

it's a great sport - don't nock it
messed up shot, still hit the target - just plucky I guess
rival - arch-enemy

​second hand bow - no strings attached
​shaky archer was all of a quiver
​shot in the face - bowtox

stole crossbow, made a bolt for it

​top English schools - Eton, Rugby and 'arrow
ungainly archer - bow-legged

Archery Gifts

Expressions

Bury me where my arrow falls - Robin Hood
Message For You Sir - clip from Holy Grail
​Slings and arrows - Shakespeare, Hamlet

Famous Archers

Jeffrey Archer - novelist, politician and ex-prisoner
​The Archers - long running radio show
Usain Bolt - fast archer

David Bowie - musician
Bow Brummell - English dandy and socialite
​Cupid - Ancient Greek marksman

Fletcher - Ronnie Barker character in Porridge
Hawkeye - Marvel superhero
​King Harold - 1066 Battle of Hastings

​Legolas - Elf in LOTR
Red Arrows - British aeronautic display team
Robin Hood - and his Merry Men

Sagittarius - The Archer​

William Tell - shot an apple off his son's head

Sagittarius Gifts >>

Film and Media

An Flying Arrow - Ming Dynasty 2016
The Golden Shot - Bob Monkhouse, a crossbow and "Bernie, the bolt"
Holy Grail - Monty Python Middle Ages fun

​Hunger Games - Katniss and her bow
The Adventures of Robin Hood, 1950's with Richard Greene

Natural World

Arrowhead snake - could be venomous
​Archer fish - spits water at insects
Bowmouth guitarfish - shark ray with a crazy name

Fletchling - Pokemon robin

Social Archery

eBow - used archery equipment
FaceBow - social updates
Nockflix - archery movies

OnlyArchers - archery glamor pics
​Shotify - archery songs
YewTube - the mighty English bow

I Love Archery Gifts >>

Song

Bowhemian Rhapsody - Queen
Follow Your Arrow - Kacey Musgraves
Nock Three Times - Tony Orlando

Poison Arrow - ABC
The Archer - Taylor Swift
​Underneath the Archers - Flanagan and Allen

Words for Archery Punning

Archery was not the easiest subject to find a good set of punning words.

archer, archery, arrow, bow, fletch, flight, nock, quiver, target

​End of the Flight

That is all the archery pun stuff for now.

Hopefully some of the arrows hit their intended targets.

Any that missed should have landed safely away from windows or small mammals.

Time to take a bow.  ​And arrow.

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