Archery Skill

[Art Eatman]

This guy likely would not have trouble making a good shot on Bambi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnBvfVJu8-U

I was pretty good with a bow in my younger years, before the -Itis brothers began messing with my right shoulder. But never, ever, approaching this level. The closest was a bow-hunter friend who could hit suspended aspirins at ten to fifteen yards--most of the time.

 

[MrBorland]

Very cool. Thanks for that.

Them -ritis boys gotcha, Art? It's a sad irony that "Art" is the meanest of the bunch.

 

[WestKentucky]

Pretty good.

 

[jmr40]

Need to send that link to the guys at Mythbusters. They did 2 shows and concluded both times that it was impossible.

 

[gspn]

Nice post. Made me want to break out the bow.

 

[gamestalker]

Definitely need to send that to the Myth Busters.

I've probably ruined a dozen shafts over the years by running one inside the other like that. And in honestly, some of mine were accidental, but some were just simply accurate shots. Now days I pick separate targets though, carbon shafts are so much more expensive than the old aluminum one's.

The most accurate sights I've ever used, for me at least, and that contribute to my proficiency, is a cross hair sight box. Before my vision went bad, I could shoot soda pop lids at 40 yds. all day long with that sight box.

My Son just bought a brand new PSE Freak, what a bow! And although he had the first one lock up at full draw the first time he shot it, PSE made good on it and he is now shooting an honest to goodness 300+ fps bow. He like to shoot big game from better than 100 yds., this new Freak is definitely the ticket. He shot a dove on the ground the other day at 46 yards.

OTOH, my youngest son is a freak if nature, concerning his archery skills that is. He actually hunts dove and quail with his bows, field points and broad heads, so none of those large diameter tips designed specifically for birds, and while in flight!! It's all instinctive, and he does it with re-curves, and compounds.

GS

 

[Sunray]

Everything is impossible for the guys at Mythbusters. They don't know anything about anything that isn't faked for movies and TV. The one twit's claim to firearm experience is growing up on a farm.
20 pound girly target bow. snicker

 

[MCgunner]

I saw Byron Ferguson do that on TV. Took him a few tries to get it done, but he was using a traditional long bow, nothing with sights.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejiv2E6f1sA

 

[Art Eatman]

Yeah, Ferguson was pretty amazing.

 

[g.willikers]

One of Mr. Ferguson's best tricks is the bank shots off of plywood walls.
And when his wife throws aspirins in the air.
His books on archery are plenty helpful, too.

 

[earlthegoat2]

You do look closely and see that the shot is staged right? Im not saying the shot is staged but rather the setup. It is set up to be a trick shot.

The arrow the fellow shoots goes right inside of the "arrow" already in the target. There is not even a nock on it and it is hollow to allow the shot arrow to pass through.

IT IS STILL A FANTASTIC SHOT by the shooter. There is no Mythbusters thing going on here though.

 

[MCgunner]

His books on archery are plenty helpful, too.

Nothing will help me. Well, a new right eye might help a lot. I gave up trying to bow hunt, just can't see well unless I have bright sunlight. I can see well enough to about 30 yards in sun, but at dusk in the depths of the woods, well, I ain't gonna risk it on a deer. I do enjoy shooting my bows, but I ain't worth much at it, LOL!

I wanna hunt bow season, though, because doe are legal in bow season. We can use crossbows, now. I wanna get one with an optic on it and practice for next season. I'm saving for the project right now, or rather, paying off Christmas on my credit card.

 

[gamestalker]

Good catch Earlthegoat2, I didn't notice the missing nock. But I've personally destroyed quite a few shafts over the years with Robin Hood shots. And like I said, most of the time it was shear bad luck, other times I was just shooting super good that particular day.

MCgunner, have you tried a cross hair sight box? I have the same vision disability you deal with, and if not for the cross hair sight box with the fiber optic hairs, I would be done shooting archery.

GS

 

[MCgunner]

No, got fiber optic sight pins. Really, though, my corrected right eye vision is 20/70, not real good, and that number doesn't really do justice to the blurriness of my vision in that eye. Not sure anything using that eye would be too good.

 

[gamestalker]

I've been going to the big Mormon lake archery shoot in Northern Arizona since about 1986 or so. Well, it's not really regarded or titled as the Mormon lake shoot any more. Ever since Mormon lake dried up, they moved the shoot to Ft. Tuthill, and Williams. All the big archery companies and owners are usually there, and lots of different shoots to enjoy and compete in. In novelty shoots alone, they usually have at least 20 or 30 or more different one's, lots of fun.

Anyway, over the years you come to recognize particular individuals from the previous year, so a lot of new friends and acquaintances are often forged, and skills noted. There were these two indian fellows, a Father and Son team that shot the instinctive traditional bow competitions. They were truly amazing. With their re-curve bows, no sights, shooting hand made cedar shafts, with turkey feather fletchings, these two would shoot near perfect scores, and I can't remember a single competition they ever lost. They would walk up to the line, knock a shaft, draw and shoot, all in only a couple seconds.

One particular thing I recall that has always stuck with me, was that I witnessed on more than one occasion, one or the other robin hooding a shaft. And I also saw countless compound bow shooters, including myself, doing the same thing. But anyway, these guys would shoot a number of the novelty shoots also, one in particular was the smoker shoot. The smoker entailed hitting the kill zone of 3D target, but the only exposed part of the target would be the kill zone, which portions of the KZ, and the rest of the target would be obstructed by branches rock piles, or trees, making the shot extremely difficult, and hazardous to the single shaft allowed. These guys would often win this shoot as well. Most of us would blow a shaft up on the first target, which was often something small like a turkey KZ at 60-75 yds.. Range finders aren't allowed, and even if they were, myself and countless others, would still blow up our only shaft right from the get go, just to give you some perspective as to how challenging it is.

So, IMO, the folks at mythbusters really needs to improve on the science and methods by which they determine if something is probable, plausible, or myth, cause this one is straight up busted, for them!

GS