Archery Speed Shooting and Trick Shots

Lokathor · Post by **Lokathor** » Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:07 am

So, this guy holds his reload arrows in his hand while he fires his bow, which lets him re-fire his bow in record time and do stunts and stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zGnxeSb ... r_embedded

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:45 am

Interesting. I wonder how his accuracy is when speed shooting like that.

Also, the narration on the video gave me cancer.

violence in the media · Wed Feb 06, 2013 1:11 pm

Prak_Anima wrote:Interesting. I wonder how his accuracy is when speed shooting like that.

Also, the narration on the video gave me cancer.

If you watched the whole video, his accuracy is apparently pretty good. He hits what he's aiming at, even if he isn't splitting his own arrows or anything.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Feb 06, 2013 3:28 pm

I figured it was likely at least decent. It's not like it's super difficult to hit a man sized target. You may not get a bullseye, but the target will be hit most of the time, if you know what you're doing at all.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Wed Feb 06, 2013 5:17 pm

That was pretty cool. It totally sounds like it was voiced by an Xtranormal character.

Ikeren · Post by **Ikeren** » Wed Feb 06, 2013 5:22 pm

That's cool. I wonder how long it takes to learn to do that? 1000 hours?

Also, he demo's 10 arrows in 4.9 seconds; and 11 arrows before hits the ground...I wonder what the "hold in hand for accuracy" limit is. (I didn't listen to the sound and I couldn't listen to the last minute). Could he hold 2 batches of 50 arrows and get out 100 a minute?

shau · Post by **shau** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:59 am

So what is that in 3.X Fighter terms? I am pretty sure he qualifies as an epic level character, of at least a high level fighter with a lot of magic swag.

PoliteNewb · Post by **PoliteNewb** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:22 am

For speed, that's really damn impressive, and his accuracy looked decent. Byron Ferguson (he's on a show called impossible shots) does some pretty nifty accuracy trick shooting...guy can hit an aspirin with an arrow, or shoot dimes out of the air.

Whatever · Post by **Whatever** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:29 pm

Pretty awesome. Hardly epic level, though. In D&D terms, he has Manyshot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o9RGnujlkI is about half speed, but she can fire the whole quiver at that rate, rather than a handful of arrows.