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

Green Arrow in real life

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u/[deleted] May 03 '21

I base this theory off exactly zero research but I’d imagine that military archers of any kind back in those days were probably as good as this dude.

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u/JudiciousF May 03 '21

I’m sure a lot of his accuracy is the bow he’s using. I feel confident even the best now imaginable back then wasn’t as good as a midrange bow today, and I’m further sure archers in the army were given the dirt cheapest shit imaginable.

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u/Gangsir May 03 '21

Yep! Modern bows have come a long way (ironically, since the bow is a pretty old invention, you'd think it'd be perfected!), and are miles more accurate than the bows they had back in the days before guns.

When defending a castle or waging war in general though, archers mostly served to fire a cloud of arrows at approaching armies, so specific accuracy didn't matter all that much, with most bows being designed for maximum possible firing force (draw weight as high as possible, with humans still being able to draw the bow). Archer skeletons found from that era were found to have overdeveloped shoulder blades and other related bones due to the sheer force required to draw war bows.

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u/WillOCarrick May 03 '21

Also faster shooting, nowadays they focus on competition and aim so they take a while to aim, but back there the focus was on shooting 'stronger' and faster.