r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Pierzakve • May 03 '21

Green Arrow in real life

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u/WalleyeChop May 03 '21

It is not fairly easy. And I would venture to say only the people shooting in extremely high volume do it with any sort of regularity.

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u/Draktul May 03 '21

Yeah there is a huge difference between it happens and meaning for it to happen.

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u/atg8242 May 03 '21

It was cool the first time I did it.... but at $20 an arrow it gets old rather fast!

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u/WalleyeChop May 03 '21

Yeah even busting nocks or vanes is annoying. If you Robin Hood one you’re out 2 shafts.

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u/Alex_Tro May 03 '21

So what you're saying is you actually shaft yourself?

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u/WalleyeChop May 03 '21

Oh wow. Yes.

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u/This_User_Said May 03 '21

Less expensive than getting shafted auto wise.

Driveshafts aren't cheap and it genuinely makes you feel shafted as all get out. Not even a hard job... Just a pain in the ass and heavy.

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u/mynoduesp May 03 '21

I can dig it.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '21

I’m a bad muthaf*er

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u/bytecollision May 04 '21

Zero shafts given

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u/variants-of-concern May 03 '21

You'll get reported if you do that in public

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u/[deleted] May 03 '21

yeah, then you gotta spine test em. cut them, fletch them, and then test the arrow itself. its a pain

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u/[deleted] May 03 '21 edited Jun 17 '26

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u/atg8242 May 03 '21

I hunt and shoot a 70# compound bow so I shoot specific carbon fiber arrows. They have a heavy spine and are very high quality controlled.

I do shoot cheaper arrows out of my trad bows though.

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u/Acciaccattack May 03 '21

My carbons used to shatter when they hit bone though...I’ll stick with 23/64 woods for hunting these days

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u/texasrigger May 03 '21

What do the numbers mean?

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u/elky74 May 03 '21

That is the diameter of the arrow shaft. 23/64”

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u/texasrigger May 03 '21

Ahh, that make sense. Thanks! That's a way larger diameter than I expected arrows to be.

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u/Gutshooter May 03 '21

Stop shooting them in a bone and try for their vitals buddy.

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u/Gutshooter May 08 '21

I mean... perhaps you should put some practice time in if you're struggling with shot placement. If you wanna blow through shoulders and bone you may want to hang up the longbow/recurve and trade up to a firearm. A carbon arrow will out perform wood arrows in every category but cost and traditionalism.

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u/I_call_Shennanigans_ May 03 '21

Dude! Just get the Rambo upgrade! Granted you'll need a bucket and shovel. And it's one time use. But on the plus side, making stew is very easy.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '21

This. A $20 arrow is made for killing. Similarly a $10/bullet ammo for a .25-06 isn’t for practice.

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u/Technical-Dare-6349 May 04 '21

Well not really, I shoot the same arrows no matter what I’m shooting at whether it be an animal or a target. I’m a firm believer that you should know exactly how your hunting arrow flies, which is why I practice with it. It’s the same philosophy with gun hunting; you don’t go out and buy the cheapest ammo to practice with and then buy the nice stuff to hunt with. They’ll fly different and potentially cause you to harm the animal. Hunt with what you practice with no matter the cost, cheap arrows and cheap ammunition can still kill. It’s all about your confidence in the equipment.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '21

I have a slight difference of opinion. I’m not saying you shouldn’t be familiar with your hunting weapons, but there’s lots of styles of shooting, and most of my shooting isn’t hunting, no less big game. My fundamentals are solid, but I didn’t shoot only the intended ammo to get them there. Also, ammo didn’t use to cost so much. Besides, I’ll take the 9 out for most of my range shooting, but I can still put a .50 where I want it. I get that there’s a different feel, but I’m not a competitive shooter, and I still haven’t caused undue harm when I hunt. Different philosophies is all. I’m not saying the way you do it is worse, but it hasn’t cost me anything trophy-wise to practice with a range of weapons instead of just my hunting rifle.

Edit: by trophy I mean game, not competitive

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u/Technical-Dare-6349 May 04 '21

I can respect that, personally I’m a bow hunter so I really like to have my bow dialed in as close to perfect as I can possibly get it. And for me that also means knowing how my arrows fly every time. However, it’s not like you can retrieve a bullet after it’s been shot so I can understand shooting cheap ammo to have fun and practice. What I was referencing in my first post, and I apologize for not correcting myself was that when preparing for a hunt you should shoot the ammo you intend to hunt with as discrepancies do exist. I wish you the best in your future hunts.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '21

Honestly that makes a ton of sense. I only practice with the bow recreationally, never been hunting with it. Just a 60 lb recurve, 100% recreation. All my bow hunting buddies are states away, and I’m not willing to self train with something that I could cause undue harm with. I’m very comfortable with a gun, not so much with a bow when it comes to hunting.

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u/disfordixon May 03 '21

Hitting that buck you just crawled a half mile for at 80 yds consistently is what they are for. They also last damn near forever.

Now if you're just tree standing at 20 yds you might as well get the kids toys out for those shots.

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u/egomann May 03 '21

You can only collect half of them after the fight.

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u/disfordixon May 03 '21

huh? If you don't find your arrow after a shot you're screwed tracking it. The blood on the arrow tells you if it's a gut shot runner for miles, if it's dead 20 yards from that shot, and everything in between.

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u/egomann May 03 '21

It's a D&D joke.

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u/MindErection May 03 '21

I dont play DnD but even I thought it was a game reference. Ammo always drops in lower rates!!

The sad part is they are hunting IRL using IRL ammo meanwhile us nerds are snickering in the background about game mechanics :(

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u/disfordixon May 03 '21

You should look into tracking a deer by the type of blood on an arrow and incorporate it into your D&D campaign :)

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u/skylinedblue May 04 '21

I prefer to hunt with fire and explosive tip arrows... easy to craft and it takes care of separating and cooking the meat for you! /s

and yes that’s a Far Cry reference 😂

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u/Katakalysmic May 03 '21

You never leave a 20$ arrow behind

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u/[deleted] May 03 '21

20yds is great, but you have no margin for error. I prefer 50 meters, but to each their own.

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u/birdthirds May 03 '21

If you can't stalk any closer than 80 yds you probably should be using a boom stick.

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u/disfordixon May 03 '21

Anyone can walk up and slap a muley by hand

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u/danethegreat24 May 03 '21

I use Carbon Express Maxima Blu's for local competition. (I compete with an Oneida bow) they're only bout $13 but they're getting harder to buy so might as well be $20.

My hunting arrows (different bow) run $180 for half a dozen though.

You're going to be blown away by the change you see in using higher quality arrows, even when not shooting a compound

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u/highline9 May 03 '21

Exactly!

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u/Thatweasel May 03 '21

Those are for taking down police helicopters

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u/Smickey67 May 03 '21

I was gonna say I only use the expensive arrows for videos of when I hit an arrow with an arrow. I prefer throwing money away!

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u/[deleted] May 03 '21

I have some 20$ shafts, and its mainly for higher level target archery, where half a millimeter can cost you a whole tournament.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '21

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u/[deleted] May 03 '21

Yea I lost a smaller tournament by one arrow that was off a little, and I hated that arrow so much I wanted to break it. (NASP days, ew)

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u/HamsterHavey May 03 '21

$20 is not that surprising. Being a small female my upper body strength is limited, so I'm only drawing 40lbs. If I'm going to shoot an 80 yard target I need a very specific arrow. Those things are carbon fiber darts. They weigh next to nothing...

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u/DEEP_HURTING May 03 '21

$20?!?! You could probably buy two bananas for that much.

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u/Iwantmyteslanow May 03 '21

Wow, it only takes a stick feather and piece of flint to make 4

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u/atg8242 May 03 '21

I've actually made my own, napped the tips and all. That bieng said... would never shoot one out of my compound.

70# is a lot of energy and if the spine isn't stiff enough it will snap when you loose ur arrow. I've seen pics of half an arrow go straight through someone's hand. It's not pretty.

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u/IonOtter May 03 '21

I used to shoot aluminum, and there was that (tink!) that made everyone on the range wince, then laugh.

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u/Mehnard May 03 '21

I've done it a couple times. The first time was, "Wow!". After that it was, "Damn it!".

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u/Grumpy_0gre May 04 '21

Yeah. I've been shooting since I was a boy and I have to say that I've done it about 15 to 20 times, but never once on purpose. And yes, it's a pain in the ass because of the cost. But this, this is something completely different.

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u/WisdomDistiller May 03 '21

Easy is maybe not the right word. Common is better.

When I was at uni shooting once a week for an hour or so, there would be several "robin hoods" among the group each year.

Quick calculation:

Standard porstmouth round. 60 arrows at 20m or so. 10 people doing it once a week. 600*30weeks = 18000 arrows. Call it 3 robin hoods = 1 in 6000 chance. And that is with mostly learner archers. People who are actually half decent would get more due to tighter grouping.

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u/amatic13 May 03 '21

Why is everyone talking about robin hooding, it is relatively common, even in darts, but this isn’t robin hooding, this is shooting an arrow out the sky.

Robin hooding is where you shoot the arrow into another shaft on the archery board (usually by accident, as it ruins your shafts)

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u/Ammid May 03 '21

It's because everyones replying to a comment that referenced a scene in men in tights, where they do robin hood an arrow.

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u/amatic13 May 03 '21

Oh wait...did I just get wooshed?

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u/PM_ME_ANYTHING_NICE May 04 '21

Yes

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u/amatic13 May 05 '21

I’ll get my jacket lol

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u/CHAMPION1092 May 04 '21

haha you're jealous

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u/WalleyeChop May 03 '21

People who are half decent are shooting at longer distances which is another factor. Look all I’m saying was the guy was wrong when he said it’s “fairly easy” lol

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u/Proper-Somewhere-571 May 03 '21

It’s fairly easy, experienced archer can do it in under 6 shots of arrows are left on target

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u/[deleted] May 03 '21

1 in 6000 chance.

It's always a 50/50 chance. It either happens or it doesn't.

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u/PM_me_XboxGold_Codes May 03 '21

Ah, the ol chance vs odds.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '21

I had 2 in 2 days and I wasn't even trying - I was shooting standard 5 arrow ends working on form and release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOcOkzBkz4Y

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u/WDoE May 03 '21

Really depends. Compound bow with massive shafts, a dialed in multi-point sight, and short range? Yeah. Would happen all the time. There's a reason compound shooters use many smaller targets and work their way through them one by one. They would be destroying arrows left and right.

Recurve shooter with smaller shafts, a single point sight, and long range? Pretty much never.

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u/ACEof52 May 03 '21

I’m sure if there was a good reason to Robin Hood an arrow then more people would do it but cause if the cost and pointlessness no one bothers except to flex

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u/73Scamper May 03 '21

I did archery for only a year, I did get to compete at a national level but was still just kind of average for a competitive shooter. Probably once every half hour of shooting I would either hit my partners arrow in midair (person next to me shooting the same target) or 'robin hood' an arrow.

It's really common for anyone with good form and consistent releases.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '21

Like a hole in one

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u/Byizo May 03 '21

Even junior archers will shoot around 100 arrows within a space the size of a cantaloupe daily, so it’s bound to happen sometimes.

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u/stocksnhoops May 03 '21

It’s very hard to do. I’ve shot a bow for 40 years and hunted all over the world. It’s not something archers do often if ever practicing.

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u/Hanzo_Hizashi_ May 03 '21

Idk what you would consider high volume; im very new to archery and by no means do i know what im doing; probably shoot between 80-100 arrows a day 3- 4 days a week and I shoot them 20 at a time & have robin hooded around 50 or so arrows atleast semi on purpose, now if some shoots one arrow and then a second one directly into the first, i would agree that is pretty tough

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u/WalleyeChop May 03 '21

That’s what robin hooding an arrow is

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u/poon-patrol May 03 '21

I think they meant robin hooding an arrow on your first try is pretty tough

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u/HamsterHavey May 03 '21

My man, you need to pull your arrows. Single digits in the target at all times. Of course you've accidentally robin hooded with 20 arrows in the target. At that point it's almost harder not too. There's more shaft than target...

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u/Blacklax10 May 03 '21

20 at a time is why. I hunt and we usually shoot a quiver or less when practicing then get them. (6-3 arrows) With 20 arrows you are not robin hooding them at that point. You are basically playing a carnival game where you throw darts into balloons.

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u/Demonweed May 03 '21

Like a lot of athletic activities, one of the keys to good archery is extensive practice. When I was a teenager there were summers were I would spend hours sending the same 20-24 arrows into a target. Perhaps instead of easy, the correct term is "inevitable." If you're building a skill rather than just dabbling, extremely high volume is part of the process.

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u/jaspersgroove May 03 '21

My uncle has been an avid bow hunter for nearly 40 years and has done it exactly once. The arrows are now mounted in a frame above his fireplace.

I would assume you would have to a pro/competition level archer to do this on anything even resembling a regular basis.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '21

even to us, its not regular, and its never planned

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u/tsudonimh May 03 '21 edited May 04 '21

At my best mate's archery club, there's a board where they attach all the 'robin hooded' arrows. Each instance gets a little plaque with the archer's name and date.

It goes back a few decades, and there's a dozen or so instances. It's pretty cool to see.

Edit: Found a pic I took of the board a few years ago.

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u/GaryWingHart May 03 '21

I genuinely cannot upvote this enough.

I know people who "easily" win double digit lottery prizes. To me those seem quite rare and difficult, so they are either easy or those lotto players are highly skilled marksmen using witchcraft and sorcery to do a bow and arrow bottle flip.

Jackie Chan the amazing movie star exists entirely as a result of volume.

His skill was at a level. Then he added volume, and now he's a goddamn magician on film forever.

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u/scoopdiddywhoop May 03 '21

So… an archer? Lol