mythbusters busted?

[mike c]

http://www.dump.com/iylse/

 

[Haoleb]

Those guys are pretty good, no doubt. But the mythbusters episode was about splitting an arrow all the way down its entire length. And even though they had someone who could shoot arrows that precisely they found that the wood just wouldnt split properly.

However IIRC they did a second attempt with some special wood a viewer sent in and Im not sure if they were able to achieve the goal or not.

 

[mtrycrafts]

http://www.dump.com/iylse/

Yep, pretty amazing
How many tries I wonder?
Are they part of the Olympic team? They should be.

 

[MACCA350]

That arrow sitting in the target looked like a hollow tube, not a standard solid wooden arrow, which I think is cheating. Although thats damn good shooting.

cheers

 

[Bryce_H]

Agree - the "arrow" on the board was hollow AND reinforced at the back end (you can see the threads around the shaft). The mythbusters goal was to split a solid wooden shaft arrow.

In response to the second attempt with the special arrow (grain of wood ran entire length of shaft) I watched the episode and they got about 80% split, if I remember correctly.

Still, heck of a shot!

 

[Audioholics]

That was awesome... wow.

 

[mtrycrafts]

That arrow sitting in the target looked like a hollow tube, not a standard solid wooden arrow, which I think is cheating. Although thats damn good shooting.

cheers

Yes, indeed. But are they on the Olympic team? They should be

 

[jeffsg4mac]

No doubt those guys are good, however those are pretty fancy bows they have there, all compound with counter weights and such. There is another dude on the OLN channel named Byron Ferguson that uses a plain old long bow and can hit an aspirin in the air among a bunch of other cool stuff. More amazing to me because he is not using a compound bow. Having owned a compound bow and now the owner of a long bow and a recurve I have some idea of how much more difficult a feat that is.

Take a look here http://www.byronferguson.com/html/video.html

 

[Rock&Roll Ninja]

The Japanese fellows are using Recurve Bows, not Compound Bows

 

[mtrycrafts]

The Japanese fellows ]

Maybe they are Korean? I sent this clip to #1 and said this is in Korean?

 

[jeffsg4mac]

The Japanese fellows are using Recurve Bows, not Compound Bows

Yep your correct, however, still pretty fancy bows with sights and weights etc. The other dude has none of that. I am not saying they are not skilled, however, I think it takes even more skill to do the old way. If I want to shoot something with sights, I will grab my 8mm mauser with some 150 gr HP boat-tails loaded to 3000 fps and reach out and touch someone. When I want to get back to basics, I grab my longbow or plain recurve and I can't hit a thing I just don't feel bows should have all that stuff. Kind of takes away from the allure or mystique of the bow.

 

[Buckeyefan 1]

No doubt those guys are good, however those are pretty fancy bows they have there, all compound with counter weights and such. There is another dude on the OLN channel named Byron Ferguson that uses a plain old long bow and can hit an aspirin in the air among a bunch of other cool stuff. More amazing to me because he is not using a compound bow. Having owned a compound bow and now the owner of a long bow and a recurve I have some idea of how much more difficult a feat that is.

Take a look here http://www.byronferguson.com/html/video.html

Wow. Double wow.

 

[jeffsg4mac]

Wow. Double wow.

Yeah I know, I saw about 20 minutes of him doing stuff one day. Amazing!!!. Made me want to throw my bows away

 

[jaxvon]

Yep your correct, however, still pretty fancy bows with sights and weights etc. The other dude has none of that. I am not saying they are not skilled, however, I think it takes even more skill to do the old way. If I want to shoot something with sights, I will grab my 8mm mauser with some 150 gr HP boat-tails loaded to 3000 fps and reach out and touch someone. When I want to get back to basics, I grab my longbow or plain recurve and I can't hit a thing I just don't feel bows should have all that stuff. Kind of takes away from the allure or mystique of the bow.

Ah yes. The Mauser. Do you have an old pre-slave-made one? A good buddy of mine has one of the older models that was still made by the German craftsmen. It's an amazing piece of weaponry. Everything about it just feels so right.

 

[jeffsg4mac]

Ah yes. The Mauser. Do you have an old pre-slave-made one? A good buddy of mine has one of the older models that was still made by the German craftsmen. It's an amazing piece of weaponry. Everything about it just feels so right.

It's a Yugo M48 from 1948 I think is the date on it. Craftmanship is awesome and the only thing I did was to install a 3lb trigger in it. It's a tack driver for sure. I also have a mint Enfield .303 No.4 MkII that is no slouch either. Once you tighten up the headspace on them you can just neck size them only on the reloads and the accuracy is great. I just aquired a spanish FR8 in a .308 that is mint, it needs a lighter trigger but thats about it. It should be a tack driver too.

FR8 here http://www.surplusrifle.com/spanishfr8/index.asp

Yugo M48 here http://www.surplusrifle.com/yugom48/index.asp

Enfield here http://www.surplusrifle.com/no4/index.asp

 

[Rob Babcock]

I've got an ancient Gustav Mauser in 6.5 Swede that's quite the tack driver, too.

 

[Buckle-meister]

Sorry for being the odd one out, but whilst I agree that it's impressive to see an arrow 'split' another, I'm not so impressed that the feat was able to be done in the first place.

1. Consider that the archers in the video were almost certainly top notch at their trade and as such are probably consistently hitting the innermost target area with any shot.
2. In fact, if they are acclaimed archers, they're probably aren't just consistently hitting the innermost area, but instead consistently coming pretty close to the centre of said area.
3. Given this, is it such a surprise that given enough attempts, they're able to slot one arrow within another?
4. I mean what are the odds (for these people)? I doubt they're that high.

Of course alternatively, it could just be the Engineer in me.

 

[j_garcia]

Yes, based on the writing, it is Korean.

That is awsome. Amazing aim + a little luck.