One of those "you have to see this" vids:

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The last shot on the video is the prize shot. Don't know how many takes, or if it was his first shot, but still a great watch.

Pretty good, but I dunno how much of that would be attributed to all the s*** hanging off the bow.

Imagine there were some archers many many years ago using nothign but a longbow that would would have been as accurate (respective with equipment used) as these guys.

Mythbusters did 2 episodes on this. The first time they busted the myth. But all the archers complained that they didn't do it correctly. So they did it again going by the advice of the archers, and they proved that it was possible.


The only other person on record that can do it with a longbow is the guy who did it for robin hood.

my parents did archery when I was a kid, and dad was pretty f***ing good at it, winning nationals and s***.

I remember a couple of times the club would put on demonstrations at school fetes etc. There were a couple of tricks they'd do:

- stick a lifesaver to the target, then shoot an arrow through the hole in the center

- put several balloons inside each other and inflate them up so there's an inch or so of air between each one. then they'd bust them one at a time from the outside one down to the inside one

- dad would do the apple on the head trick, only he'd start with an empty target, then shoot two arrows in it just wide enough apart to hold the dummy's head by the neck, put the apple on it, and then shoot it.

he got a couple of robin hoods during his career, and they kind of sucked cos you destroyed two arrows in the process. Unless it was someone else's arrow that you split, in which case you got to keep it.

all this was like those guys, with a compound bow, stabilisers, release aids etc.

Kevin Costner is the cheese.

what's "getting a robin hood"

Almost like a Prince Albert

having an accurately adjustable sight would make that sort of target archery easier but that is still some fine shooting! :D the best archery i have witnessed was the guy who ran the archery club i was in as a teen 'the narangba bowmen'. with a 75lb solid fibreglass recurve bow with no sights he could split 4 pieces of wood an inch wide & a yard tall sticking out of the ground at 25yards, 50yards, 75yards & 100yeards using no more than 8 arrows. that was pretty impressive.

Archery is sooo much fun. If you've never tried it before, it's definitely worth getting some mates together to go and have a shot.

i like field archery the best. target archery gets a bit boring after a while... although it's different if it's your first time. the first time i did proper archery i had no equipment & borrowed the bow & a set of target arrows but had no finger tabs or wrist guard :P i shot away until my wrist was bleeding from the string thwacking it every second shot :P

for those that don't know field archery is like golf except you pick a target (like a stump or something) & everyone shoots all thier arrows at it. then everyone walks to the target & retrieves thier arrows & you choose the next target to shoot at & so forth. when i did it we had permission from a guy that owned 100s of acres in narangba & we used to walk for kilometers shooting at whatever made a good target :D great fun.

That stuff is easy. I could shoot arrows like them...but I don't want to.

That guy is pretty leet.

Almost like a Prince Albert

lol

On myth busters they proved it was possible to split another arrow in half if it wasn't solid like most arrows are. They used bamboo which splits down the middle cos its hollow. That being said the archer was frikin amazing.

yeah but i bet they suck at cs.

man that fatty sure can shoot !

and have a shot

ISWYDT

Kevin Costner is so hot right now...

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I so want you d t ...

what is that meant to mean? ISWTDT i so want to do that???

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did there

i see wat u did there

oh yeah, forgot about that little saying on this forum

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stuff like that usually trickles to this forum from US forums, people trying to emulate board warriors they see on forums there

THIS IS HOW THEY (t)ROLL IN N.Y. MOFO. BROOKLYN REPRESENT!!!!!!!

stuff like that usually trickles to this forum from US forums, people trying to emulate board warriors they see on forums there

I observe your actions yonder.

Can you skeet shoot with bows and arrows? That might be interesting to see. Obviously I guess you'd use more fragile clay pidgeons or something.