Lars Andersen - Archery

[Gunz]

The skeptics can't deny the skills bowmen had to master in the days before gunfire, especially mounted or chariot-borne archers. The Parthians had no stirrups. The Mongols, as x SF med points out, were superb mounted archers. Pardus is right that we don't give enough credit to the skills ancient warriors had to master to survive the brutal close combat of their day. These guys had to be part acrobats.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

I read the article, and while I bow-hunt, I cannot claim to be anywhere near an archery expert. What is "Geekdad" butt-hurt about? To me it almost seems that he is saying, "if I can't do that, no way anyone else can!"

 

[CDG]

Yeah, I don't see Geekdad's point either. "He probably missed a bunch before making it". Yeah, so does everyone until they master it. No way the guy was radically off and managed to get lucky with those shots just the once.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

Someone is butt hurt:

 

[Ranger Psych]

Someone's dead right, and most of that shit is what I thought of immediately looking at it.

Then again, I grew up shooting archery from before I was allowed to have my own rifle all the way through till about... oh, around 08? when I sold my bow due to it collecting more dust than I felt appropriate, and it went to someone who's got as much love as I do and a more appropriate area to be ABLE to shoot... There just wasn't a safe spot for me to shoot bow from the house in AK, whereas in Georgia I could shoot into our carport from the street (or backyard from the street) and risk nothing other than breaking a carbon shaft on brick or sinking it halfway down the shaft into a wooden fence that delineated "yard" and "desolate bramblebrush of doom combined with wait-a-minute vines".