Extreme Marksmen on History Channel

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Wow, these guys are unbeliebable.

Archery marksman shot a droplet of water out of the air!

Rifle marksman shot playing card!

The quickdraw guy Howard is incredible!
 
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I grew up down the street from Gil Hibben, guy is true gentleman. He made the wife and I a custom one of a kind Hibben wedding knife for our wedding, she keeps insisting to use it for cooking :fire:. Saw him at my brothers wedding a couple weeks back and commented on his appearance on the show, he invited me over for bourbon and cigars. Think I am going to take him up on it, now I just need some of that commodity, time.
 
On Impossible Shots on the outdoor channel they have a Quick-Draw shooter named Sisko that drew and shot 6 ballons in 1.08 seconds. He was much faster than the quick-draw artist on the History Channel show.
 
I watched that show a number of times. I'll never shoot that good. They must have some incredible eye sight.
Gil Hibben, guy is true gentleman
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He is a gentleman. I thought he passed away. I hope I'm wrong.
 
just watched the youtube clip of byron ferguson 'splitting the arrow'

I know these shows often do many many takes. They were at least honest enough to show 3 misses, but on the hit Byron states something along the line of 'it only took me 920 shots!'

I don't know if that is an accurate number of if he is just throwing something big out there, but I think it is pretty clear he tried to hit it more than just 3 times.

He is very accurate, but unless the 'split the arrow' is accomplished in a pre-determined set of shots (say, 5 or 10) it is really meaningless. Any archer who can get his arrow to hit within 1 inch of his desired target at 10 yards 99% of the time is going to be able to split an arrow if they shoot enough...simply because the arrow has to land SOMEWHERE.

In this case you have a circle with a surface area of 3.14 inches, and if you say the sweet spot on the arrow to split is is 1/10th of an inch, you basically have a 1 in 31 chance of any hit in that surface area to be an arrow splitter.
 
but unless the 'split the arrow' is accomplished in a pre-determined set of shots (say, 5 or 10) it is really meaningless
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Unless you are Mythbusters, they said it could not be done, due to physics. So that might be a good reason, no matter the number of shots to prove those goofballs wrong. Of course both shows are about entertainment.
 
Caught this show on the History Channel tonight. Some really cool shooting on there. Thought I would dig out this old post rather than making a new one. The show originally aired on 2008, but if you see it coming on it is worth a watch.
 
BTW, a lot of the close up targets for archery competition are now multiple bulls with one arrow per bull. That was because so many top end archers were tearing up their arrows in tight groups. I watched a freestyler at one league I was shooting in do a double "tube" with X7's (split the first arrow with the second -we called them tubes because with aluminums one shaft gets forced into another-then fired a third arrow into the second). He had about 6 feet of arrow hanging off the target face and we had to stop so he could pull and clear the face. Wrecked a lot of equipment. He was not happy.
 
Not to take away from these guys accomplishments.....but the editing room can make anyone a great shot.

I once was on a TV hunting show where we shot sporting clays. The host handed me a someones 20 gauge that didn't fit and I missed half the shots. When it appeared on TV I miraculously improved and hit every target.
 
Not to take away from these guys accomplishments.....but the editing room can make anyone a great shot.

I once was on a TV hunting show where we shot sporting clays. The host handed me a someones 20 gauge that didn't fit and I missed half the shots. When it appeared on TV I miraculously improved and hit every target.
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Ahhh, what next, your going to tell me those guys fishing don't catch a fish every time they throw out, come on............:D
 
Unless you are Mythbusters, they said it could not be done, due to physics.
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They said it can be done, but with theatrical bamboo arrows stuck in the target. The problem isn't hitting the back of the arrow but getting it to cleave in half neatly for the incoming arrow.

Ahhh, what next, your going to tell me those guys fishing don't catch a fish every time they throw out,
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I don't know what you're talking about. Every fishing trip in Alaska is like that ;-)
 
They said it can be done, but with theatrical bamboo arrows stuck in the target. The problem isn't hitting the back of the arrow but getting it to cleave in half neatly for the incoming arrow.
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Yep they even mention that in Robin Hood it was a real shot.

I love those marksmen shows, they're amazing.
 
I think Mythbusters started out by trying to split CEDAR arrows... which was impossible because of the grain of the cedar shafts. The arrow being split would always cause the splitter arrow to go off center, even if the initial hit was dead accurate.
 
There are a lot of youtube videos around that have some amazing shooting as well. I'm still slack-jawed at the video clips of Bob Munden. It seems to defy physics for anyone to be that fast at drawing and firing with any measure of accuracy.

Since we're into gun related shows, I'm sure many readers here are fans of the History Channel's older show "Tales of the Gun." It's incredibly informative. On the off chance you haven't seen that series, it's well worth buying/DVR-ing.

As a last gun-oriented video, I recommend Hornady's DVD on reloading. Even if you're not into handloading, the video is very informative about the mechanics of guns in general, and is available through their website or most online retailers.

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