When you pull the arrow past your ear there is quite a discrepancy between the axis of the arrow and the line between your dominant eye and the arrowhead whose tip is used as a front sight. This means you have to aim to the side of the target, that's quite a gap on longer distances, or aim with a part of your bow arm which is not exactly a fine sighting tool. Add in the helmet and the thing gets even worse. How is this supposed to be accurate, or as accurate as crossbows? Yeah muh practicing but that's like saying you can be equally accurate with a gun with normal iron sights, and with the same gun but which has an apple-sized front bead, if only you start training from an early age. It just lacks the fine detail. Obviously there are practical limits to accuracy, regardless of the hype. Asiatic bows are just as bad, if not worse.
>>18119740https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfqD_g2vEoA
>>18119798Notice here at 9:10 when he smugly says "Got him!" but the arrow actually strikes a cubit to the left. Longbow videos are highly edited slopaganda for the naive. https://youtu.be/3DDSLRXTNK4?si=AV2Ag_fJ33JXFkhA
>>18119831that's literally not edited. He's a performer and you got worked. Besides, the video I posted has perfectly good angles of a difficult shot at 30 paces.
>>18119740>dood reality doesn't suit my theory so reality is WRONG. All those accounts proving accuracy WRONG. Tribes that hunt like that today WRONG.>https://youtu.be/U2Szbfq9IA4?t=1295>>18119798>>18119831This man is a reenactor i.e. a bullshitter. That's why he talks so much.
>>18119858as opposed to a real military archer? fuck off retard.
>>18119865Where are you going to find a video of a "military archer " today? ALL depictions and texts show them using the exact same shooting style. They specifically say draw to the ear. The MINIMUM practice range for longbowmen was 200 yards. You have a video of a tribesman there pulling off incredible shots in the dark using the same methods. If that doesn't satisfy you, then the brainwashing by the Olympic committee is complete.
>>18119876source: your holethe people in OP are clearly firing at extreme range pointing their bows up in the air.
>>18119879What are you talking about?Just noticed this >>18119740>arrowhead whose tip is used as a front sight.This is my last post in the thread. I won't be reading your response. You don't aim using parts of the bow in traditional (real) shooting. You just draw consistently, and then shoot instinctively. It's more like throwing a rock than shooting a rifle. Try it, buy a bow and do it. Before embarrassing yourself on 4channel.
>>18119893Not even sure what you're conceding, but I accept it.
What exactly are you sperging out over OP? That they're not quite drawing back the arrow for your personal delectation?
>>18119858Zoomer idiot. That guy has done nothing with his life except shoot arrows and serve in the military. He became a reenactor to shoot more arrows and learn more shit about being an english bowman, not the other way around.
>>18119740That's nothing OP. Imagine that most of people in the past were able to do 20 pushups in a row just like that.
>>18119858>https://youtu.be/U2Szbfq9IA4?t=1295all I see here is a man takes a shot, then there is an entirely new frame completely without context. for all we know, this could have been shot at a different point by another archer from a much closer distance, and the 50m is dubious as well. it's just a word said by a youtuber making videos whose purpose is to create revenue, it's not like there was a tape measure involved. you guys are gullible as fuck. start thinking for yourself
>>18119740Yep, you have won the internet. Crossbows were more accurate; also not fully drawing your bow was more accurate.Bows had grater range and volume of fire with sufficient accuracy tho.
>>18119740"Accuracy", "reach", "armor penetration", none of this ever mattered. The only thing that ever mattered before modern firearms was the cavalry charge.
>>18119740Are there really people arguing that a longbow is "meant" to be accurate... or that its accuracy could somehow match a crossbow?I think you're arguing with a strawman.
>>18121099>shoots your horseheh... better luck next time
>>18119740>How is this supposed to be accurateIt's not. Battlefield archery relied on massed fire like muskets.You can still be very accurate on short distances if you train for it, but that wasn't the main way to use them.
>>18119740You dont need to be accurate in war. its about weight of fire.Its not 1 person firing against 1 person its a few hundred firing at a few hundred
