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Old 12-03-2012, 04:09 PM   #23
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Default Re: Bow - 3 shots in less than 2 turns - In real life.

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Originally Posted by Pursuivant View Post
I agree that accuracy at range is poor, but that's not the point. The technique is designed to put a lot of arrows on target in a short amount of time at relatively short ranges.
Except arrows aren't like bullets. With a bullet, every trigger pull gives me the same amount of power, so I can discard accuracy for putting lots of slugs into a target, and people do. But with a bow, you're also sacrificing strength. I mean, I can just pick up a handful of pebbles and shower a target, and that'll put more stones on a target than putting one in a sling, spinning it up, and then hurling it full-power at a target, but that doesn't mean just throwing handfuls of rocks at people is really a viable battle strategy. I don't see how this archery technique is really any different.
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