(10-15-2021, 11:02 AM)727Sky Wrote: Killing something with an arrow is not like the movies where they shoot and the person/prey are laying there dead seconds later. Unless a brain or heart shot, it takes a while for the prey to bleed out. There are stories of battles where the hero was shot several times looking like a pin cushion as they fought on..Painful to say the least IMO.
It's more in-depth even than that - if those images are the arrows he used, and not just stock images of generic arrows, they had "field points", tiny little target points, and were not broadheads to maximize the wound channel. They were basically just high speed pointy sticks, and would take a long time to bleed a person out.
I like how the article tries to point out that they were "competition arrows", as if that makes any difference at all. Pointy sticks are pointy sticks - presence of a graphite shaft or plastic fletching does not make them any more deadly. The deadly part of an arrow is the arrowhead - everything else is just a delivery system.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’