Wizard
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I've been thinkinggg.......
When I was a kid I could pick up my bow and hit the tin can off the fence, or come pretty close with the shots that missed. Bow made of tree branch, string made of string (funny about that), arrows made of garden canes.
The cowboys in the films would draw and shoot a hole through a silver dollar tossed in the air. The injuns weren't bad either, could even shoot flaming arrows and hit the flaming target.
Point is, how good are we really? Sure we can hit the gold at 100 yards, sometimes, some can do it nearly every time. We use carbon arrows, scopes, laminated limbs, sight settings etc. etc. But who could pick up their bow and within 10 seconds, nock an arrow and hit a tin can off a wall at 30m, then turn 90 degrees and hit the snowman at the bottom of the paddock at 60 yards. I'm not a fan of bowhunting or barebow etc, but are those shooters actually better 'shots'.
"Excuse me LittleJohn, how far do you think that nasty sheriff's man is from here? 30 yards would you say? Bugger, don't have a sight setting for 30 yards. Nevermind, I'll give it a go anyway. So, put the sight to say 32 yardsish, remember to get my stance right. Here we go. Bugger again!!! forgot to put it through the clicker. Right, this time...."
"too late Robin, he's gone!"
When I was a kid I could pick up my bow and hit the tin can off the fence, or come pretty close with the shots that missed. Bow made of tree branch, string made of string (funny about that), arrows made of garden canes.
The cowboys in the films would draw and shoot a hole through a silver dollar tossed in the air. The injuns weren't bad either, could even shoot flaming arrows and hit the flaming target.
Point is, how good are we really? Sure we can hit the gold at 100 yards, sometimes, some can do it nearly every time. We use carbon arrows, scopes, laminated limbs, sight settings etc. etc. But who could pick up their bow and within 10 seconds, nock an arrow and hit a tin can off a wall at 30m, then turn 90 degrees and hit the snowman at the bottom of the paddock at 60 yards. I'm not a fan of bowhunting or barebow etc, but are those shooters actually better 'shots'.
"Excuse me LittleJohn, how far do you think that nasty sheriff's man is from here? 30 yards would you say? Bugger, don't have a sight setting for 30 yards. Nevermind, I'll give it a go anyway. So, put the sight to say 32 yardsish, remember to get my stance right. Here we go. Bugger again!!! forgot to put it through the clicker. Right, this time...."
"too late Robin, he's gone!"