Rare Howard Hill short 1933-35

get a puncture help take it away somebody quick thank goodness and here my friends is the kid himself Howard Hill champion field Archer and sharpshooter extraordinary here he shows how the novice usually places the arrow on the inside of the bowl it's fired from the outside like this the string is pulled back so the hand touches the face at the point of the incisor tooth when released a full drawn bow string sometimes cuts like a whiplash hence the leather arm gun the leather fingertips wants to avoid wear and tear on the digits this is called knocking the arrow the shaft doesn't pass between the fingers of the left hand like a pool cue but over them now a remarkable picture of an arrow in flight through super slow-motion photography nice shooting Howard here's a nice effect with a little more practice how it could qualify as a skywriter the feathers of an arrow and flight spin like a turbine look out customers shatterproof glass but not arrow proof to draw hills powerful bow it takes a lot more pump than this dizzy game possesses well just to give you an idea the scale would show you the pressure necessary to pull this bowstring back to your incisor tooth tugging that bowstring back to its full shooting strength these four gals aren't exactly invalids it takes a hundred and seventy two pound pressure and to pull it back to us you've got to have drawn what I mean what a man this piece of pine is three inches thick to give you an idea of the tremendous force behind a broad hand arrow shot from Howard Hills longbow well just keep an optic peeled on this mmm-hmm like a needle through a slice of cheese and now we'll use a smoker arrow again for a long distance accuracy shot in slow motion Hill who stands way back there has been known to shoot an arrow 465 yards watch the sky for the trail of smoke there see it at this distance how near to that target do you suppose you've come well let's see and Wham the diameter of that black spot is only five feet here's a cute trick to try on your being a aiming with one foot standing on the other go mmm but right through the center and now we go for graphically artistic in a bit of marksmanship that borders on the super phenomenal a hit and now the arrow Pierce disc floats to the ground like a wounded bird as Twilight shadows anyway it was a tip of a shot came the dawn and with it some skeet shooting these discs were smaller and hurled with greater speed sneaking up on the shooter Howard is in a playful mood and as he prepares to shoot sodas Hills he will Z another slow motion picture of remarkable accuracy beautiful imagine his surprise and so a contest was arranged the loser to do the winners bidding a gun in a shell a bow and an arrow there they go who can load his weapon and hit the flying target first it looks like a cinch for the man with a gun but then let's see I hate before the other guy gets a beat on it the second and final event in this contest three shots at the black Spade hey not their day girls oh yeah well just watch our boyfriend he's going to try and top that bit of fancy marksmanship right Howard yes sir look a card edgeways yep he's going to try to split that card with an arrow hmm you don't believe it eh well get yourself a big load of this mr. sharpshooter yo look at that card it split down the middle broke it off and count over and so the loser pays the forfeit is to impersonate William Tell Junior yeah man for generations people have read about old man tell shooting an apple of his kids cranium but did anyone ever see him do it of course not but with a nice sharp arrow Howard's willing to try yes it's the same kind of an arrow as this one okay mister hold still here we go nervous eh well take a practice shot come on that's it that big boy on the chair there hit it right in the middle go hey that's right where his neck would be yes there and there and there maybe you'd better not look turn around mister and don't worry Howard's just a bit jittery there there old boy we'll give you a bigger Apple yes I think this one will be a lot easier to hit that's it steady now Howard never misses accepting when he's nervous well he's calm anyway okay let's have it good gosh shoot it with you sorry no it's not a dummy watch him how is painting there fainting she's painting he's painting I'm painting

Channel: Longbowman89

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Keywords: Howard Hill. Archery

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Length: 7min 0sec (420 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 03 2012