Half-cocked
Senior Meatbag
- Mar 14, 2006
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This video strikes me as being a little self-promoting, but the guy clearly has a talent with the bow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk
The only assertion I have trouble with is the shooting from the left side is what caused the "need" for one-eyed shooting and sights. Plenty of instinctive shooters use both eyes (you simply cant the bow) and although I'm only a beginner I found that I was way more accurate with both eyes open shooting instinctively.
I do wonder why archery didn't survive the era of smooth bore muzzleloaders though. From what I've read archers could get off far more arrows, and hit targets over distances more accurately, than early muzzleloading soldiers who relied more on massive numbers of shooters (volley fire) than aim.
Of course, it also took many years to make an English longbow archer.
Of course, it also took many years to make an English longbow archer.
Not 9 months like the rest of us?
Yea, and Clint Eastwood really did shoot the hangmans rope off Eli Wallach while both sitting on horses.
What are you saying? I've seen that movie at least 100 times and he's done it every single time.He also shot a bouncing rope on a ferry boat every time in Josey Wales.
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I do wonder why archery didn't survive the era of smooth bore muzzleloaders though. From what I've read archers could get off far more arrows, and hit targets over distances more accurately, than early muzzleloading soldiers who relied more on massive numbers of shooters (volley fire) than aim.
Of course, it also took many years to make an English longbow archer.
Saw this after a Bow Huntin bud forwarded it to me. Def impressive. Is it hard to find a traditional right handed bow with a right handed arrow rest? May have to try this out. My only experience is shooting a compound.
At my workplace it's 9 fathers and the baby comes in a month.
The only assertion I have trouble with is the shooting from the left side is what caused the "need" for one-eyed shooting and sights. Plenty of instinctive shooters use both eyes (you simply cant the bow) and although I'm only a beginner I found that I was way more accurate with both eyes open shooting instinctively.
Actually archers in those days did volley fire also mainly. They did not just sit there and pick off the enemy one at a time, like Robin Hood in the media. That did not mean that they were not good archers but they were not like the horse archers of the steppes and Middle East who did both in the same battles. In the the West archers were the artillery of the battlefield after the decline of the legions with their arrow engines.The only assertion I have trouble with is the shooting from the left side is what caused the "need" for one-eyed shooting and sights. Plenty of instinctive shooters use both eyes (you simply cant the bow) and although I'm only a beginner I found that I was way more accurate with both eyes open shooting instinctively.
I do wonder why archery didn't survive the era of smooth bore muzzleloaders though. From what I've read archers could get off far more arrows, and hit targets over distances more accurately, than early muzzleloading soldiers who relied more on massive numbers of shooters (volley fire) than aim.
Of course, it also took many years to make an English longbow archer.