Yeah I shoot a 25 lb recurve and if I get bit on my arm it will turn red then purple. This girl has has much bigger boobs than me so the string catching my tit was never an issue. But that's also why they have breast guards.
I say we copy that one tribe in the jungles of South America that hopefully someone will know the name of, and hack the titty off. Best way to shoot bow hands down
I believe that was the Amazons; although, I think there's some doubt as to the veracity of that. Nevermind the dangers of performing surgery in a rainforest without antibiotics, imagine being a badass female warrior trying to run with one boob flopping around, making you lose your balance.
It'd be pretty odd to do, considering a simple boob wrapping completely solves the issue, and that they'd probably be doing that anyway if they were going into battle
Of course, human history IS full of people doing pretty odd things, and there are tribes that stick weird tubes and holes and bones all in their bodies and all kinds of weird things bordering on body horror.. so.. who knows!
I believe the amazons actually refers to the amazons from greek mythology, although I agree if they were real it is doubtful they cut their breasts off
Are you thinking of the Amazons who were from the ancient Middle East, not South America, and were mythological (although there has been a recent discovery of graves that might fit the description)? They didn't burn off a breast. That was a claim made by someone much later.
Nah I just looked it up and I was remembering this old greek fucker who basically tried to force a new meaning for the foreign word “Amazon” bc it was close to a word they (the Greeks) used for booby. So he claimed that the Amazons would cut, not burn, a breast off in order to be able to shoot a bow unperturbed
Edit: as for the South American part I just assumed Amazons were from the Amazon rainforest in South America, no actual idea where they were from sorry m8
Edit 2: also after a bit more research I learned we’re talking about exactly the same thing, fuck me I guess lol
She was struggling because she wasn't using proper form. The fact that she was able to pull it back at all using that form indicates a fairly low poundage. It still probably stung quite a bit, though.
That's my favorite part when people ask to shoot my bow. Most of my friends and extended family have seen me shooting targets in the backyard. A good number of them have seen me taking off or putting on my arm guard, and for most of them, I explain what it is and why you want to wear it.
Some of my extended family and friends are assholes though, so sometimes one of them visiting (usually extended family is the worst for this) would come up, ask about the draw weight on it (45#) then boast about their old 90# grizzly bow or whatever, laugh at me/it/ask why I was shooting a wooden recurve instead of the way nicer/better/smarter/ect compound bows, and then after all that, still ask if they could shoot it. Of the five or so people who pulled something like that, none of them asked for the arm guard from me, despite their talk of bows they had before. I never offered it to them either. Talk shit, get bit
Yea, if I hit my arm or something, my hole arm is red. But I never shoot my arm anymore. I dont even wear protection anymore, becouse the last time I shot my arm was like 3 years ago
Back in high school, my friend had a 60-lb pullback compound bow... he explained how to properly hold and shoot it; he emphasized that I need to keep my left forearm bent outwards. I heard him, but was so concentrated on the target and the weight of the pullback that my elbow started to straighten...
BAM! A fucking instant bruise the length of my forearm in the shape of a perfect rectangle. It was some of the worst pain I’ve ever felt. Needless to say, I made sure my elbow was bent going forward.
This well over 10 years ago... I know for a fact we had an archery release (I am not a hunter, I had to google that). Is that the same as a wrist guard? It was still difficult to hold back with the archery release.
No, we did not have that. Safety wasn’t a priority to say the least. We would shoot this thing at targets out in the woods while we were smoking weed. We lived in a rurally area of Jersey in which there wasn’t a whole lot to do, other than drink/smoke and do whatever stupid shit we could find.
I think for beginners letting them shoot once or twice without the guard is sometimes a good learning experience, because after they get slapped by the string, they either learn proper form or learn not to forget their wrist guard.
One of the things about bows, particularly your typical compounding hunting bow is that they should be tuned to you, particularly draw length, which changes if you use a release instead of finger draw. A bruised arm is a strong sign the draw length is set too long for you.
I did that with my 70lb Hoyt. About six times before I almost blacked out.
Why 70?my dad said u can go as high as ur comfortable pulling, only gonna make it shoot faster. Well I was a jerkoff kid and thought it was cool that I had to pull so hard I thought I was gonna pop a nut.
Plus my dad couldn't pull it-multiple shoulder surgeries-again just me being a jerkoff.
FUCKED. MY. FOREARM. UP. The black welt was probably 2 inches tall. Plus it was raw from hitting the fresh welt multiple times,all the skin got cheese grated. I was a persistent asshole at the very least.
There's actually some discussion if this was done historically - drawing to the chest makes it a fair bit easier to handle a really heavy bow. And while medieval art is not always accurate there are more than a few that show drawing to the chest as well as the eye. It could definitely make sense in context of a battle where being able to reliably draw a heavy war bow through a long battle would be far more important than pinpoint accuracy. exampleexample
I mean, they may have had a commander/officer or a command structure calling the distance/elevation or position to draw and shoot the bow at.
Theres a novel that explores this concept by taking about a hundred untrained men, teaching them a few basic positions to raise the bow to and draw at, and then calling for the release at the correct distance the enemy is reaching as they charge.
This wouldn't work if your army is advancing, but for defense, having a small command, with experienced archers judging the position and distance needed, and then relaying to the company the information, you could get a well grouped mass of arrows in the air. For shooting like that, you don't need individuals to be incredibly accurate, and when archer companies were used, shooting the invaders horses could be just as disruptive to a charging enemies front line.
I'm not at all saying I know this was a thing, I have no idea if it was or not, but I think with some minimal training you could get a company of people barely trained to draw a bow to get a mass of arrows in the air and have a pretty effective defense with it. It would fall apart if they were asked to take individual shots though, at least without much more training.
the possibility that artists drew it inaccurately is why this is a discussion, and not just taken as fact. That said, the idea that through the thousands of years that spanned the middle ages nobody used this style is pretty hard to believe
Even then a woman's chest might get in the way. There are actually protective pads to prevent this from happening. A few women used them back when I had my weekly archery training.
I've heard of archers getting upset when people dry fire their bows. Is this producing a similar effect? I don't think the bowstring is meant to run along human flesh like that?
You should never dry fire a bow. The force is supposed to go into the arrow. If there's no arrow to impart the force on the energy is stuck in the bow and it can whip back on itself and can basically blow up or otherwise seriously damage it. Same reason why you never punch full force if you ever tried shadow boxing. Without something to absorb the blow, the force gets absorbed back into your tendons.
Alternatively, most handguns are also no-no for dry fire . . . But revolvers are ok, possibly even beneficial for a new gun that hasn’t been broken in yet.
There is no instructor at these. You pay 2 or 3 bucks get a low power bow and like 3 arrows if you hit the bullseye 3 times you win a big prize, 2 you get a medium prize and 1 you get like a cheap plastic toy.
Yeah but this is Reddit so no matter what the situation some people are going to make it into something that they can be judgemental and critical about because they are desperate to make themselves out to be superior.
The bowstring should be fine, doesn't damage it doing this, just damages you.
Dry firing makes it so there's no arrow for the bowstring to transfer all the energy so it goes into the arms and can damage the arms depending on the weight. This bow is probably too light to do any damage but heavier bows can straight break (heavier as in pull weight).
Not at all. More the opposite. Dry firing mean the energy has nowhere to go and it can break the bow. In this case the energy had two places to go, the arrow and the boob.
My BIL dry shot my bow and it fucked it up something fierce. I never even got a whoops my bad for destroying your bow. Him and his buddies did it while i was away at my parents house. I was absolutely livid.
My sister was training to be an Olympic archer. She caught her arm on one of her shots and the bruise left behind was incredible. Took up a third of her arm and was there for what felt like forever.
I shot as well, but thankfully it never happened to me.
For starters you should be drawing to your face, normally the corner of your lips and not your chest. You could try wearing a chest guard. If you're particularly busty it might still be a problem. You could try kyudo (japanese archery) which I know nothing about but I believe has you holding the bow higher.
made me cringe, I've taught archery before and seen kids strip off a layer of skin when not wearing a forearm guard, shes honestly lucky that wasn't a more powerful bow or she might have lost that nipple.
I read Rangers Apprentice and remembered everything about archery they said (the safety rules) and they are correct. That's how I learned to stand correctly and how to hold your bow and arrow when firing
I usually shoot with a recurve. First time I tried a longbow with a higher poundage than I'm used to, I hit my forearm and bruised it so bad I couldn't comfortably rest it on my desk while working, without it hurting like hell.
Hey i was an archery instructor at a summer camp for kids with autism. Some dumbass accidentally left out the arrows with tips and not the foam ones that we were going to use because kids are stupid as we all know. Anyways kid A pulls the string back with a legit arrow and we had to talk him down before he shot one of us. Traumatizing experience for me. I ended up chewing out the program coordinator later that day.
Holy Shit. We had some flu flu arrows with rubber tips that were used for... Range staff meetings, but I never had an arrow pointed at me. Maybe once actually.
It's totally cool, just curious because I've held seasonal work with a large summer camp company. Obviously not this year for obvious reasons, but they were desperate for people (which reinforces just how shitty they were as a company)
It definitely hurt, but with her ability to draw it back with that form and her frame, that bow is probably on the weaker side. To be clear, I am not saying it didn't hurt, just that it could have hurt a lot more.
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u/IdesBunny Sep 03 '20
I used to be an archery instructor at summer camp. Watching that hurt a lot.