extreme marksmen is a cool show

DouglasDanger

seriously, this is a pretty cool show if you enjoy this sort of thing

i guess it has been on before, but i have never seen it before

today's episode has so far included byron ferguson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLxS8W7lWMU

and jerry miculek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uisHfKj2JiI

and there are some snipers coming on now

Der Waffle Mous

I remember seeing this, or at least an episode of it, a few weeks ago.


I remember a few parts where my jaw was pretty much on the floor at what some of these people could do.

Wren

rednecks in their natural habitats

DouglasDanger

thanks for shitting on my thread, wren

Calamity Jane

skilled archers are hard to come by, nowadays

i really want to start shooting again

Calamity Jane

alternatively:

NotASenator

shit shit shit.

Jordyn

Ollie the target is the other way

Jordyn

Who shot all those other arrows?

Calamity Jane

he shot them yesterday and they just caught up with his ass

tsplitter

this is neat

DouglasDanger

Anjin-San wrote: »

alternatively:

you can actually link green arrow to this episode quite easily
ollie met howard hill, an early 20th century archer who was quite the trick shooter/marksman and was actually used in hollywood movies, such as the robin hood with errol flynn

byron ferguson, the archer in this episode, studied all he could about hill, and may have met him

tom knapp shot a 22 bullet into a curved pipe, and the bullet richocheted around in it and hit a target

it was a pretty cool show

Wren

DouglasDanger wrote: »

thanks for shitting on my thread, wren

you're welcome

SirToasty

I want to watch this. When does it come on?

Also, anyone seen the archer that could shoot cheerios or similar objects out of the air?

#pipe

I was thinking about learning to shoot a bow a while ago

it's something that has always fascinated me.

Fallout

i can't see the second vid D;

but holy shit look at this guy reload

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAFxgQmxbGI

DouglasDanger

whoa, that is fast
the show was on at 5 today, eastern standard (daylight savings) time. it was 2 hours long.

Talonrazor

Jesus, I want to be able to reload like that. That'd be incredibly awesome.

SirToasty

I really want to learn to shoot bow and arrow. It is so cool.

Hobnail

Bet we don't get it in Canada. Shockingly.

Talonrazor

I placed 4th in a tournament for bows. My goal is to eventually hunt moose with a bow and arrow. That'd be pretty awesome.

When I was hunting in Africa, we heard a story about a guy who shot a giraffe with an arrow on a hunting ranch. The bow was so powerful, the arrow went right through it, killing it instantly and then struck a second giraffe. It killed it also, which sucked for the poor guy because a giraffe is like $7,000.

Hobnail

Talonrazor wrote: »

I placed 4th in a tournament for bows. My goal is to eventually hunt moose with a bow and arrow. That'd be pretty awesome.

When I was hunting in Africa, we heard a story about a guy who shot a giraffe with an arrow on a hunting ranch. The bow was so powerful, the arrow went right through it, killing it instantly and then struck a second giraffe. It killed it also, which sucked for the poor guy because a giraffe is like $7,000.

Ranch hunting is extremely unimpressive.

#pipe

So is killing Giraffe

Talonrazor

Hobnail wrote: »

Talonrazor wrote: »

I placed 4th in a tournament for bows. My goal is to eventually hunt moose with a bow and arrow. That'd be pretty awesome.

When I was hunting in Africa, we heard a story about a guy who shot a giraffe with an arrow on a hunting ranch. The bow was so powerful, the arrow went right through it, killing it instantly and then struck a second giraffe. It killed it also, which sucked for the poor guy because a giraffe is like $7,000.

Ranch hunting is extremely unimpressive.

So you must not know how you hunt in Africa, then.

Because that's all you can do there because it's all privatively managed.

DouglasDanger

there is a difference between some 200,000 acre "ranch" in Africa and a 4 acre hunting ranch in the states. Most of the african ranchs are more like game preserves than shooting galleries, with the fences keeping poachers out, rather than keeping the game penned up in a few acres, at least from my limited knowledge of the subject.

Talonrazor

DouglasDanger wrote: »

there is a difference between some 200,000 acre "ranch" in Africa and a 4 acre hunting ranch in the states. Most of the african ranchs are more like game preserves than shooting galleries, with the fences keeping poachers out, rather than keeping the game penned up in a few acres, at least from my limited knowledge of the subject.

This is exactly correct. The "ranch" we hunted on was about 150,000 acres. And yea, a giraffe isn't as exciting as shooting a warthog (that was awesome) or gimbuck but it'd still be an awesome trophy to have.

Air

i remember some guy back in high school was talking about how he got a bow and arrow

then i think he got arrested for walking around the streets shooting at stuff

Jedoc

Bow hunting is for pussies. For a real rush, you just gotta walk out in the forest and club the shit out of a bear.

Actually, though, I've got an uncle who does a lot of bow hunting, and he's also pretty scary with an atlatl. He spends a lot of his time writing to New Mexico politicians trying to get dart hunting legalized so that he can go out and chuck some spears at our woodland friends.

Hobnail

Trophy hunting is extremely unimpressive.

DouglasDanger

i hunt from time to time, because deer meat tastes good, but i find i have more fun just shooting targets and stuff.

Shorty

a guy I knew once told me about how he was hunting deer

and as he was looking for tracks, he noticed some cougar tracks

which he (stupidly) started following

eventually they led him in a circle

back onto his own tracks

he's being hunted by a cougar

so he turns around and sees it crouching behind a log

right then it charges

he gets off two shots

and it crashes to the ground about four feet in front of him

DouglasDanger

sounds like bullshit to me, maybe not, but probably

Mysst

Shorty wrote: »

a guy I knew once told me about how he was hunting deer

and as he was looking for tracks, he noticed some cougar tracks

which he (stupidly) started following

eventually they led him in a circle

back onto his own tracks

he's being hunted by a cougar

so he turns around and sees it crouching behind a log

right then it charges

he gets off two shots

and it crashes to the ground about four feet in front of him

Ha, that may not be a true story but it's a pretty good one.

BYToady

Did he remember to say "Clever girl." just as he noticed it?

Penguin Incarnate

Jedoc wrote: »

Bow hunting is for pussies. For a real rush, you just gotta walk out in the forest and club the shit out of a bear.

Actually, though, I've got an uncle who does a lot of bow hunting, and he's also pretty scary with an atlatl. He spends a lot of his time writing to New Mexico politicians trying to get dart hunting legalized so that he can go out and chuck some spears at our woodland friends.

How is hunting with a spear not legal? That seems like the most basic shit in the world. It would be like making a fire with a flint or getting mauled by a mountain lion illegal.

Futore

i find myself posting this a lot.
http://www.huntingwithspears.com/
search around that site. read the stuff that guy has killed. he is the top of the food chain. except, ya know. he doesn't eat it all.

Donovan Puppyfucker

That revolver reload is fucking quick. Way more impressive than the other guy reloading an auto. Even though he was super fast too...

Penguin Incarnate

So the guy was being hunted by a sex-crazed older gal? And he shot her? What a dick. She probably just wanted a Corona.

Peter Ebel

Haha, yes "cougar" can mean that as well.

L|ama

Peter Ebel wrote: »

Haha, yes "cougar" can mean that as well.

this is a fantastic post and I support it wholeheartedly

BigDes

The best part of the first video posted in the OP is the redneck version of the the Top Gear theme being palyed.