/AKM/ - Guns, weapons and the art of war.

Of course it can be useful. Practise with a bow will strengthen your arm, help develop an intuiative understanding of ballistics, teach you discipline in maintaining your weapon, allow you a whole new sphere of social relations with others of the same sport, allow you to appreciate the differences weather can make on the smallest adjustments etc.

If you want to develop a warrior spirit, do not think of it merely as leisure, neither as just useful or not useful. Practice in earnest and the use shall make itself clear, the leisure will come of its own and you will discover what is not useful and when. Archery is not the way but is one of many skillful means to find yourself upon it.
>Do not stray from the true Way. Keep the mind straight. Practise the Way broadly, see the great picture widely — make the Void your Way, and see the Way as the Void.