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Not at an animal so all your blood pressure can normalize.
I’m trying to figure out how he sighted the shot? Doesn’t appear he used a sight.
Is he lining it up (to a certain extent) on the horizontal rod to his right? Hard to tell for certain if it’s in front of him. I think it is. Wonder how many shots he took before hitting the ballon? Hopefully the price and the lack of availability of balloons doesn’t skyrocket, now….
Heck my bows can even shoot that far...8^)
What was the target to pop like that?
Hunted at Phil Phillips antelope camp in 1994. When we got there he was shooting a bear target at 210 yards. He had a light pole in the background that he used as a point of aim. He was good for 3 out of 5 hits.
I don’t even want to walk that far to pull arrows!
—Jim
Shoot both eyes open and arc it just like we do with pistols at targets a few hundred yards away. Watched my friend hit a 17" target 300 yards across a watershed lake with a .45 Glock multiple times.
I think he’s aiming off the end of that bar out in front and above him.
How long was Antonio Rebello's shot to light the cauldron at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona? I would think he used a similar sighting technique.
I would expect that the horizontal bar is how he calculated the windage. Just adjust the height of the bar to dial the elevation, float the point of your arrow on the windage scale, and shoot until you get the money shot on video. I did notice that there was a note of surprise in the whoop that went up when he hit it…
Not for nothin’, but I took a little time away from the wheel on Sunday to enjoy a freshly harvested and disced bean field. Shooting from the treeline in the background, I lobbed the white-fletched arrow (100 grain brass insert and a 125 grain Judo) at that clump that the fletching is resting on… I had a pretty stiff tail-wind, so it tumbled tail-forward when it hit. I walked it off at186 paces as long as my stubby legs could comfortably manage, and I only missed y a couple of feet. The flu-flu took two shots to get there, and I would say that compared to the compound shooter in the video, my Judo took considerably longer to come down out of the sky…
But instead of posting myself to MeToob, I reflected on the fact that The King’s Longbowmen were expected to be able to hit a man-sized target RELIABLY at 200 paces, while drawing easily twice the poundage that I do…. And I felt pretty sheepish about missing with the others….
or maybe he shot a few arrows as far as the bow could, (368 yards) before the target was placed, and then placed the balloon at that range spot. I see a few other arrows. in the ground. And then what everyone else has said. Paul
everything else being equal if you shoot at a 45° angle you're probably going to max out the distance. Once you max your distance, you simply put your target underneath where your arrows fall so if you repeat the shots eventually you'll hit the target and you only post the YouTube video or the one you hit.
I used to shoot like that………….but then I woke up !
I guess somebody doesn’t want anyone to hear about a guy making a comparable shot at 315 meters with a Hungarian horsebow….
Kind of like the DUDE PERFECT videos……………..you heave up enough shots, EVENTUALLY you make one! ;-)
If you watch the whole video @dude.deals.official it says they hit it in the 140th shot. Not all that remarkable at a target that size. In Wisconsin we have an archery golf course using 5" rubber balls as targets at distances between 100 and 350 yds. There's been 100's of witnessed hole-in-ones.
Off the barn, off the boulder, off the tractor... bullseye! scent
Paul@theFort has it correct. They set up the shot and shoot a few arrows, see where they go, then place the balloon and try to replicate that shot.
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James Jean does some crazy stuff regularly. Mostly with a bow but sometimes with sling shot or BB gun. Link to his instagram if you have it.
I have buddy of mine guiding bowhunters for hogs and he wanted to impress all of the hotshot pros that came to camp. He set up a Target butt at about 120y and dialed it in to where he could sight off the top of a tree from a spot at camp and be dead on.
It was a bit of a parlor trick...but it kept the pro egos in check- grin
Details are foggy but I remember a Wensel tape where they set up a balloon way the hell down range, don’t remember exactly how far. They let an arrow fly and the balloon popped. What their astonished buddy didn’t know is one of the brothers was hiding in the bushes with a BB gun. Those two were a million laughs.
"maybe he shot a few arrows as far as the bow could, (368 yards) before the target was placed"
Yeah, I bet that is how he does it...
Yep, there were plenty of arrows stuck in the ground nowhere close…
This guy was shooting half a mile (880 yards)
Reminds me of the United Bowhunters of Pennsylvania archery golf outings in the 90’s. Fun times……
Reminds me of some bowhunters on the CO Eastern plains....
1/2 mile away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Saw this on Facebook. Mathews build a special very high powered bow and very light arrows. He shot many arrows to get a cluster and range, and then set the very large balloon in the area, and after many arrow, did hit the target but surely not on the first shot and with out a lot of calculations and arrows released.
I can't even see that far..lol
I don't recall the whole story, but Paul Schafer was bet he could not hit his buddy's camera put out at 80 yards? cold shot with a recurve (a Shafer recurve of coarse). The story has it as the camera was placed, Paul questioned the guy "you really want me to shoot your camera"? Paul pulled up, stared at the camera lens and put the arrow in it. There are other Paul Schafer shot story's that the Wenzel's know of that would not be considered ethical, but ethically killed animals.
I can do it too .... give me 500 shots
It reminds me of a local high-risk investment group that bought something like a quarter million powerball tickets and yeah, they actually did win a really big jackpot…. LOL. Not much of an investment strategy….. Those guys weren’t Genius Investors; they just had money to burn because their clients were OK with taking losses. Hell, they were probably looking for losses to write off and it backfired…..
I wonder how many shots it would take to get the same result from a shooting machine?