If your thinking of training on lessers, well then I personally would not suggest it. I have tried training there and I felt like I was losing too many arrows, and finding a safespot was too much trouble (just my opinions), but you should try it out at least once to see for yourself. For me I train on mossies most of the time, and sometimes black knights in their castle west of the monastary. Anyway, training def with range (long range) is going to be very long since you shoot slower and you get only 2 exp (for both range and defence) for every point of damage you do as opposed to the 4 range exp you get per hit for accurate or rapid. Anyway however you decide to do it good luck!