Bouncing arrows and Duck hunting (not)

[@KeplersDream]

"Bounced over their heads" -- They ducked.

[@randomsmuck312]

Booo...

[@joedoe7041]

dog lifts up from behind the reeds and laughts

[@Bassalicious]

Nice. Two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff.

[@TheRangaTanGaming]

... potentially an origin of the phrase. Likely wrong, but I can dream.

[@davidblair9877]

...I applaud you. On your cheeks. Hard.

[@dantherpghero2885]

I may be out of line . . . BUT those 'ducks' seem historically inaccurate.

[@rsberry21]

They are faithful replicas of the Quacken pictured in the mallard accord of 158 AD

[@mandowarrior123]

The artworks suggests animals were a lot more cartoonish in the past.

[@TheGreatPower365]

Hard times breed hard men... and even harder ducks.

[@ndld4955]

Yes they are very accurate and historical ... but a bit smaller ... than "big bird" was but the colour looks about right ... just bigger...

[@MrBigCookieCrumble]

@danthe RPGhero You sir are out of line!

[@sebastianriz4703]

this is 100% going to give Joerg Sprave new ideas

[@dan_the_dj]

Im sure he is already aware of these. Although even Tod wasnt, which is a bit of a mistery to me to be honest :D

[@yajurka]

It's amazing how "stupid" ideas on medieval youtube start like tiny snowballs and then through multiple iterations we get something huge.

[@Sporek]

Exactly! 😆

[@ndld4955]

I can already hear the gears in jorgs mind turning... be quite and you will here them to "he .. he ..he .. let me show it's features " See they are there alright.. "He .. he .. he "

[@hyperboloidofonesheet1036]

Vogeljäger!

[@Corwin256]

I love that there are some details that you totally don't understand and you celebrate that fact. The beginning of knowledge is "I don't know", so it's really fun to watch someone enjoy learning something and knowing how much they don't know about it.

[@tods_workshop]

Thank you, I appreciate that and there is so much I don't know but as a YT 'celebrity' people assume you do know things, often everything, but of course I don't, I am just lucky enough that I can use this platform to explore and learn first hand.

[@MrARock001]

@@tods_workshop maybe you've done this already (I'm still exploring this channel) but it would be cool to see you experiment with different indigenous hunting weapons to see how effective they are! 💚

[@emknight84]

Adagio for Strings was the perfect choice for that massacre.

[@johnnevin7320]

The vocal “Angus Dei” (same tune) by voces8 is a superb version

[@primachpepe8597]

@@johnnevin7320 I love Agnus Dei, and im glad that not only other recoginize adagio for strings but Agnus Dei as well.. (Kharak is burning)

[@keltikknott]

Samuel Barber is a genius composer

[@emknight84]

@@primachpepe8597 nice reference. That and the Movie Platoon

[@primachpepe8597]

@@emknight84 honestly never seen it but i am aware of it.. but i hope it is used in a similar fashion to Homeworld

[@bd0055]

Seeing Tod get so excited over his discovery of bouncing arrows is part of the reason I love his content

[@tods_workshop]

BUT they are exciting!

[@Ulfheodin]

IKR ! Made my day to see someone that passionnate

[@simonrival1613]

The bouncing over the ducks might be a feature, real ducks would start to fly away if startled.

[@Dalenthas]

I imagine anyone who actually hunted with these for a living would rather quickly learn how high and far they bounce and adjust their aim accordingly.

[@tods_workshop]

I am sure you are right - me messing about just shows the potential, not the fact

[@MG-cp8xk]

I think the centre of gravity of the arrow is changing as the get wet. SO dip the ends, part or whole arrow in wax / duck fat (not Muscovy duck - Cornish) other oil waxes or fats are available.

[@hanelyp1]

An oil or wax coating on the head would also help preserve an essential fluid flow character of that edge. Water flows along the face, comes to a corner, and can't follow around the corner.

[@MG-cp8xk]

@@hanelyp1 good point (Ha ha)

[@ndld4955]

Using duck fat to hunt ducks...

[@MG-cp8xk]

@@ndld4955 yes but not Muscovy duck - it's a Cornish thing

[@foldionepapyrus3441]

I can well believe it is primarily (or only) COM changing, but I had two other ponderings - how much of the changes would be the fletchings getting wet and more beat up changing the aerodynamic efficiencies - the ones that failed looked rather shabby and if the tail doesn't want resist the tipping forces applied on hitting the water enough it will dive straight in, - how much is just the change in mass - While the COM will shift a little forward, the whole arrow will also get heavier along its whole length, which means its going to need more bounce to lift it regardless of the the centre of mass. The shallower shot works well I believe because it improves the force vector at impact reducing the amount of downward force and the angle of attack of the leading bulge is at a better angle into the water, which is also why the one that never worked never worked - you need to create a lifting force out of the tip and that one was way to hydrodynamic, so its always going to plough straight in not act like a hydrofoil.

[@tarsisisterval5964]

A brutal video, not for the faint of heart, but life in medieval times was harsh.

[@tlsgrz6194]

Great, now I‘ll be having nightmares of me sitting in the bathtub and Tod coming in and shooting my rubber ducky.

[@fredygump5578]

Clearly you are referring to the dream where a giant rubber ducky is threatening to peck you to bits...and Tod is a member of a secret society that is at war with said rubber duckies...

[@zacktoor1591]

Let's hope he doesn't miss.

[@sebastianriz4703]

when life gives you a lake, you make lakeonade

[@AtomicShrimp]

When you shoot a duck, it breaks into several smaller ducks. It's like Asteroids. Just some thoughts... What about using cork for the shaped collar? Also: what about if the collars were sort of bell-shaped? - with a little skirt to deflect water almost perpendicular to the axis of the arrow itself - action/reaction should result in an upward force on the arrow (although the drag might be too great this way)

[@benrex7775]

Hi Atomic Shrimp. How is it going?

[@nehemiahwestercamp3542]

This is my first time seeing you out in the wilds of KZbin. Anyway, howdy!

[@tods_workshop]

Thanks for that and some great ideas to test next winter as my flood has nearly gone. But to be honest the way I look at this is many, many generations of many, many hunters shot thousands of shots and tried so many iterations that me messing for a couple of hours is not likely to improve things. A phd student though.....

[@AtomicShrimp]

@@tods_workshop Yeah, it's easy to forget that the only thing 'primitive' about the people who developed all this technology was really just the range of materials to work with. The hands, the brains, the senses of curiosity and innovation were the same as our own (maybe sometimes better in the face of material challenges and necessity)

[@ReasonAboveEverything]

@@tods_workshop I would like to throw in my few cents and point out that the rubber ducks you used were really small. Members of anseriformes family which include most targeted birds in northern Eurasia are significantly larger. The average height your arrows bounced would have not necessarily affected the shot.

[@ursor234]

TUNE IN NEXT WEEK when Tod replaces his bone tips with forked iron tips, bees waxed fletching and wooden shafts, and a man made field of reeds.

[@schlomoshekelstein908]

these are called frog crotch arrows

[@ursor234]

@@schlomoshekelstein908 ah, thanks!

[@mattpastell3728]

After devastating a flock of defenseless little duckies and their mommies in the intro, you open with an impish grin! Loved it!

[@bensteward99]

I think another bonus is that once the arrow hits the water it will startle the birds. This means they will be lifting off as the areow iss back in the air, again further increasing the chance of a hit?

[@GarthOJ]

That's a pretty good point. Especially if multiple people shot at the same time into a group of birds

[@ComicalHealing]

I really love that Tod is showing this side of himself the past year or so. I remember his oldest videos being very informative but rather dry; now he's all bubbly about his inventions and testing them. This opening had me shouting in awe of arrows skipping on water and laughing at the tragedy of rubber ducklings.

[@MrFeatheredSerpent]

Ducks will get startled and that bounce would catch them as they try and take off. 😉

[@andrewgodly5739]

Ducks of today are probably far more skittish and reactive than back then. The time of mass duck hunting had forced them to adapt

[@andrewsock6203]

@@andrewgodly5739 people did not have freezers or fridges so they only shot one duck a day and it would be every day for the old day ducks. Modern ducks are mostly only scared during flight in hunting season.

[@pimar5654]

Exactly what I thought too!

[@andrewgodly5739]

@@andrewsock6203 people were hunting ducks to sell on the market. Look at the punt gun. It was made for killing more than one duck

[@tidge879]

Thats what the original boomerang was for (not the ones that come back, but ones that fly flat and straight). The birds would hear it, and take off, straight into its path.

[@markcoffman9522]

Been shooting a bow for 40 plus years and never knew these were a thing. Thanks Tod!

[@tods_workshop]

A Pleasure

[@kilianortmann9979]

Maybe impregnating the bounce bulbs with wax helps to prevent soaking of the heads? Could also make for a better bounce, since the interface between arrow and water is now hydrophobic. Edit: changed philic to phobic

[@hanelyp1]

hydrophobic = "fearing" or repelling water. hydrophilic = liking and attracting water.

[@shawn6860]

Makes sense they did have wax and Honey.

[@appleciderhorror12]

Don't blow it. Keep it simple. Wax your arrows.

[@alexandersarchives9615]

0.20 that scene of the lone washed-up rubber duck fills is so much emotion... Tod, you monster. What have you done?!

[@peterwall8191]

*Alexander's Archives.* They were sitting ducks , no true Briton could resist them.

[@nick_steele9790]

I was hoping you’d do these! They always interested me a lot as I spent many a day in my childhood skipping stones across the sea.

[@tods_workshop]

Glad you like them!

[@nick_steele9790]

@@tods_workshop I plan to make some for myself!

[@lukesheridan4623]

@@tods_workshop would skipping stones be a feasible hunting method for ducks?

[@hellequingentlemanbastard9497]

I can tell you right now, those type of Duck doesn't make for Good Eating.

[@tods_workshop]

Sauteed with rosemary

[@hellequingentlemanbastard9497]

@@tods_workshop - Might do the trick, but I rather doubt it.....

[@valinorprops7922]

for a large flock of waterfowl this would probably guarantee a hit.(as you mention later) great video!

[@tommihommi1]

and the "bouncing over" problem also isn't a thing since real birds are a bit bigger than these rubber duckies

[@guiorgy]

@@tommihommi1 also, they'll probably try to get away and get hit while taking off

[@andrewsock6203]

I used to shoot a sling shot at swimming ducks when I was a kid and ( hard to believe) but if you aimed at the ducks head you could never hit one. The ducks would sit still and just move their head out of the way of the passing stone. The ducks were so fast at reacting you just could not hit one from over 15yards unless you shot for the ducks ass end and you might hit one. Like you said it would guarantee a hit but really it just greatly increases your chances. Maybe it was just because the ducks I shot at were from the golf course and were battle hardened :)

[@timaitken2277]

Brilliant figuring out the purpose of the reverse-curved arrowheads. I'd be interested to see more tests with a variety of knob-shapes to see which ones bounce best. If anyone out there has access to some fluid-dynamics simulation software to explain the details of the mechanics, that would be really interesting as well.

[@neruneri]

That's super cool! These are the type of arrows you'd find in some video game and people would complain about them being unrealistic LOL

[@ndld4955]

Yep ... they would be called fictional... for sure ...

[@mike_hock]

now that was a prime into!

[@Tony-wm1oc]

This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen

[@ttaibe]

If someone would have asked me if i tyhought this was practical feasible.. I would have sad: nah! years ago someone suggested to me that those crescent arrow heads function is to styop an arrow from going too far- getting lost, I thought nah, too complicated and it wont do enough damage. Sigh ^^ Love this!

[@mortenjacobsen5673]

Cresent arrow heads where used to cut wings and tendons, and blunt arrow heads has been used to hunt birds and small game so there is realy no need for these bouncing arrows. Remember when the english tried that bouncing dam busting bomb??

[@gordonlawrence1448]

"Bouncing Arrows", more fun than you can shake a stick at. Except arrows are a highly modified stick. Oops I need to think that through again.

[@shlamimk4664]

From my perspective, Todd Cutler is the coolest man in Britain.

[@benholroyd5221]

"Hi its Barnes of Barnes Workshop, Barnes Wallace here."

[@johnbeauvais3159]

I will now always picture that man in his lab making videos on old camera equipment when I think of the Tallboy and bouncing bombs

[@HikuroMishiro]

I'm just waiting for an April 1st video where everyone swaps introductions. "Hi, it's Joerg from the Slingshot Channel and Joerg Sprave here." "Greetings, I am Tod." "Hello and welcome to the Shadiversity channel."

[@IamOutOfNames]

@@HikuroMishiro Don't give them any ideas.

[@MalloonTarka]

@@HikuroMishiro I think you mean "Hello and welcome to the machicolation channel."

[@nightsazrael]

Tod is shooting rubber duckies! Made my day.

[@BobT36]

Lmao the beginning gave me a smile. You can practically see the grin on his face as soon as he begins talking, too. Glad he enjoyed himself so much! Fun watching for us as well. :D

[@BioShrog]

Those arrows are so cool, those multi skips are fun to watch!

[@lukasdimmler2622]

The arrows bounce very similar to skipping stones: The angle of incidence at the front directs the water down and the front of the arrow up. The force is likely related to the angle of incidence towards the water line and the speed of the arrow. Shooting at a steeper angle has two negative effects: The downwards momentum is greater and the angle of incidence is lower. When you shot the soaked arrows the downwards momentum was again greater (because of the greater mass) and the arrow was slower because of the extra mass. The angle of incidence against the water line was likely also lower as the arc of a slower arrow is shorter and therefore steeper. The angle of the front wood peace can likely be lowered with a faster arrow, or could be increased to allow for heavier arrows. It would be interesting to see what happens if you just used a cone and cut of the other half of the wood piece.

[@alisterroquer2899]

Bloody love this channel you simply can't find this content anywhere else, keep up the great videos Tod!

[@robertgross1655]

Hi, I hope those ducks are receiving counselling from their local “quack”

[@LiqnLag]

You should see the "Bills" that quack charges!

[@robertgross1655]

@@LiqnLag this could get really quackers. How about shooting oranges off them. Then you could have “duck al a ronge” or range. Ha ha.

[@LiqnLag]

@@robertgross1655 Proper fowl puns mate!

[@robertgross1655]

Fowl lives matter

[@robertgross1655]

@@LiqnLag I suppose fowl jokes are allowed.

[@jonnporter6081]

That duck on the left laughed at you. I say we go get em. Great video. Loved it.

[@jeffandrews8578]

weigh them when new/dry, go play for a while, when they start screwing up, weight them again.. keep playing and when it goes all wrong, weght them again ... and maybe you could fasion some metal tips to suit these particular arrows.

[@WGG-01]

A huge thing I took out of this is that the arrows bounced slightly up perfectly to hit the size of a regular duck and not really any higher, it is an amazing thing to see such a simple design when it really comes down to it put out a purely genius performance.

[@kooroshrostami27]

I tried this at the local lake. I am now in prison for poaching. Doesn't really matter, just a different prison from eternal quarantine. Don't have to worry anymore about bills and my boss and my existential pain. My soul is free now. Thank you Tod

[@patrickwelles3046]

Finally, some good ducking arrows.

[@enormhi]

Tod had so much fun in this video!

[@jaxraxx3509]

That opening scene was truly horrific... poor lil orphan

[@Aengus42]

I said Barnes Wallace style bouncing arrows on your last "flooded range" video's comments and they actually work! I said ""Think of our hero in a film pulling off a bouncing arrow shot to save the day!". I never thought of what profile of tip thought. Looks like someone has beaten me to it! What a stunning bit of physics!

[@souppiyas6987]

My theory: when the wood is soaked, the water on the wood surface will merge with the water surface of the pond and the water surface tension is reduced and the bounce is harder. How about coated the arrow with wax or oil?

[@jacklonghearse9821]

Not bad

[@prouttralala]

Or Marseille soap

[@homeworksdone2378]

With this new ammunition, Tod strikes fear into the plastic hearts of rubber ducks everywhere

[@kenerickson4851]

Your video, brilliant, too! I think the arrows going over the ducks have a high likelihood of success because many ducks ‘jump’ upwards when spooked and so put themselves in the path of the higher arrow.

[@patdavis6383]

I know why the arrows kept going over their heads. They are called "Ducks" for a reason, the species have had millennia of experience at avoiding being shot!

[@howler6490]

Thats why the scottish minister invented the primer ignition system for his black powder shotgun... The flash of the flintlock gave the birds time to dodge hence the name...Ducks...obvious, innit?

[@justanotherbrickinthewall2843]

Billy Berger @ Primitive Pathways made a video about skipping arrows a couple of years ago. If I'm not mistaken; he mentioned that native Americans used them. Chris Boyton. He worked with Ray Meares in the "Aboriginal Britain" bushcraft episode. Really nice bloke 👍🏻.

[@Sublimeoo]

I'm genuinely scared Joerg's gonna watch this XD

[@JClif]

Wonderful video! As a avid duck hunter, this is ingenious idea our ancestors came up with to hunt waterfowl. I would love to try this.

[@DRINKIWHISKY]

Also: the skidding sound could scare the birds and meake them take flight but since the arrow is still going and bounced it could hit a bird taking off right above the water instead of bouncing over the birds

[@brianhoag3135]

My first thought was that the sound of the first skip would startle the ducks and instantly turn a small target into a wide target

[@johnbeauvais3159]

The Tod Todeschini lends further credit to the multiple Tod theory. Also what a beautiful demonstration of the bouncing bomb, lovely work there. Your flooded field has been wonderful for content.

[@eternalstudent11]

Tod, it is wonderful to see you having so much fun

[@andrebarreto9177]

I have a theory about the Dovetail arrow head. If the Deer belongs to the local lord, its a crime to be caught hunting deer, if all you have is dovetails its pretty hard to be accused of hunting the Lord's deer.

[@gitfoad8032]

Somewhere, there's an experimental archaeologist saying "I could've done that".

[@somersethuscarl2938]

Or as here day"What had Tod come up with now and can I get a paper out of it?" 😁😁

[@paulwood4769]

Certainly up there with the best youtube videos I've seen ... your enthusiasm is so infectious that I've already picked out a couple of nice bits of timber to turn ... oddly I first heard of these arrows from an old poacher who used them on the Norfolk broads just after the war. Shot them from an army surplus canvas kayak so he could retrieve his arrows... he also told me how to launch marbles from a cupped-headed arrow, tied to the bow string, these were used to knock roosting pheasants and pigeons silently from the tops of hedges ... something else to make 🙂

[@75keg75]

The intro ducks reminded me of the red dress girl in Schindler’s List....

[@WakarimasenKa]

That is one movie "Adagio for Strings" is not in. Though John Williams is often inspired by other composers. So I wouldnt say there is nothing that sounds like it in that movie. "Adagio for Strings" is in a lot of movies and some tv-shows. Some of them set in WW2.

[@75keg75]

@@WakarimasenKa yeah good track for war movies - the instant thought upon hearing the tune was platoon. But the black n white and yellow ducks made me think of the red dress girl, which was much more poignant!

[@wierdalien1]

@@75keg75 it is in platoon

[@75keg75]

@@wierdalien1 I know.. hence why I thought of platoon.

[@WakarimasenKa]

@@75keg75 Oh, of course. I see that now. I must me more atuned to the auditory than the visual. Or it has just been much longer since I saw Schindler's List, than it has been since I heard the music :P

[@SilverSidedSquirrel]

Aaaaaaaaaand I need some new arrows. Great vid Tod, thanks!

[@davidlewis620]

Absolutely fascinating, love it, thank you !! Brings back my youth and my love of bows and arrows !!

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings... nice touch. - When I first saw forked arrow heads, I let myself be convinced they were for rope cutting in naval battles. I am so glad to be better educated now.

[@VSO_Gun_Channel]

Dude, that’s hilarious

[@RyzawaVT]

You basically eliminate the 3rd plain of existence, turns hunting from 3d to 2d. Seems like the field flooding was actually just a blessing in disguise!

[@stalkingtiger777]

Best opening ever

[@Mupworp]

This is called "bouncing arrows 2", does anyone know where "bouncing arrows 1" is?

[@euansmith3699]

Bouncing Arrows 2: Toxophilist Boogaloo

[@Miki112xD]

Tod just spoiled there will be a second video I guess

[@tods_workshop]

Sorry - that was just the second edit. Nothing to follow planned as yet

[@SuperTossik]

It's so much fun to see how much fun you're having! :)

[@WalkaCrookedLine]

Reminds me of how old style artillerists in the era of round shot were trained to go for "grazing shots" -- shots fired at a shallow angle that hit the ground in front of the enemy troops, than bounced through the ranks. You'd cause a lot more casualties that way than if your shot came in at a higher angle and just buried itself in the ground.

[@1lobster]

For the spring hunting season you should ask an American to test out the arrows for real duck hunting.

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you , Tod .

[@abatnamedmoth5956]

7:12 that confused noise while trying to figure out what just happened made me laugh very much out loud

[@alternator7893]

I remember reading about those arrows on the first volume of "The Bowmaker's Bible" back in 2015, it explains how to make them by wrapping a ball of sinew around the shaft and covering in pitch.

[@tomislavobrovac3257]

I'm a hunter and a very active one. Now where I live bow hunting is illegal so I don't have any experience with them, but from my rifle and shotgun hunting experience I can see these arrows to be even superior to shotguns. With shotgun if you miss, you missed, but with these arrows you never know until there are no more ducks on the water or the arrows get lost. Plus you have to wait for ducks to either fly over you or until the fly off the water, with this you could sneak in and fire maybe 2-3 times before they figure out something is off, and then you could pick off maybe 2 more while they are trying to fly off. I love these arrows, seems like a ton of fun

[@eduardojud56]

the introduction was the best one

[@rubyshmurda6140]

Looks exactly 1 million times more fun then skipping rocks

[@chriss3886]

Tod, mate, you are awesome. Thanks for kicking off 2021 with another cool idea.

[@andybrown4284]

Until you see its a duckling it looks like the heads coming off with the impact. Other info we get from this video is apparently somewhere there's a shop selling rubber ducks as essential items during lockdown.

[@CowCommando]

Unless he already had them?

[@dimesonhiseyes9134]

With that crescent shaped arrow head it would take the head clean off. Like the modrrn gobbler guillotine bread heads do

[@garyparrott9165]

I love how he called back to the other arrowhead video. My first thought on this video after he mentioned the forked head was, "huh...that must be why they made frog crotch arrowheads."

[@UtahSustainGardening]

That opening scene is priceless!

[@guspeniche]

Really interesting to see your early TV work. You should do a video where you talk about your career!

[@ot1625]

What I love about your videos is that you occasionally show old footage of you and I realise how many times I saw you before I found your excellent channel last year!

[@backyardbiologist6468]

Being Sámi, this was cool to see a part of my heritage.

[@kirohaas3193]

The only thing I can think about why the arrows suddenly ''stop working" and not skipping after a while would be that - as you suspected - they absorb water, which would make them denser and heavier, which would make it easier for them to sink rather than skip, requiring a steeper angle to get the skip.

[@danielarias9099]

the KZbin moderator to thought she almost caught you slipping 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@dragonwithamonocle]

Tom you may have just discovered the purpose of those crescent moon arrowheads that people have been confused about for so long. If they hit a duck or a pheasant, they'll mash and break bones and impact and kill it, but if they hit tall grass/reeds/low branches, they'll stick. Those arrowheads could have been hunting heads for birds in dense growth where normal arrows could be easily lost.

[@adambielen8996]

It seems that as the Arrows soak up water they gain more mass so when they hit the water its at a steeper angle and with more momentum so they just punch in instead of skipping. I've seen people suggest coating the wood in wax or oil to make it hydrophobic, so that should help. I imagine that with real water fowl you wouldn't skip over their heads as much as they would be bigger than the rubber ducks.

[@TrungNguyen-du9cn]

Having too much fun on the water, Todd? Ingenious idea from the fowl hunters. My idea: A rubber ducky outfit for Todd.

[@robertshell4176]

The exact thing I didn't know I needed know. Thanks for another great video. Tod, simply the best.

[@Zwerchhau1411]

The rocket used in the bazooka rocket launcher from WWII has a head shape very similar to the bouncing arrow head (except no prongs on the front). The training videos from the time show them teaching US servicemen to aim low so that instead of the rocket going over a tank if they missed the rocket would have a chance to bounce up to the tank and explode. The video I watched also demonstrated what I just described. I do not think that they intended the shapes to be similar I think it was just a coincidence between the shape of AP rockets and these bouncing arrow heads. I thought I would just mention the similarity because I thought it was cool. Good video Tod and a good day, or night, to anyone reading this.

[@mattiazuccolo629]

Absolutely beautiful bow!

[@Mike-sv2nu]

Layman's guess, when the fletchings are wet they provide less drag and consequently the arrow achieves a much more vertical aspect when it hits the water.

[@jmtoobin]

I can imagine a medieval competition where archers competed to see how far they could fire one of these bouncing arrows from one side of a river bank to the other side of a river bank. Add to this the various rivers of Europe (i.e. Elbe, Danube, Rhone, Rhine, Po, Severn, Morava, Labe, Sava, Weser, Wista, etc.), and different parts of each river that varied in width, and it is clear that such a competition would have become enormously popular for each country that had a river, let alone a section of a long river tributary, sparking international competition among archers from different European powers.

[@sukabean7986]

Saw the original video you saw but you’ve done stellar job on expanding on it. Nice vid

[@7Seraphem7]

Another thing with the crescent arrowhead, that thing hits a wing as the bird flies away, it could take out enough feathers to possibly force it back to the ground, or at least slow it down enough to land a second shot.

[@moreparrotsmoredereks2275]

That... was one of the best intros I've ever seen

[@sandrosliske]

He looks like he is having so much fun. Loved that sad opening.

[@heaslyben]

I've been enjoying Tod's Wetter Workshop.

[@tods_workshop]

Its getting all dry now

[@David0lyle]

😆 Your intro!! This, this is what make you a super star!!! You weren’t kidding, really interesting arrow!! Duck and waterfowl meat is very greasy. We might consider that a defect but for subsistence hunters it’s a glorious grand prize. The calories were critical and the scum floating on the stew pot was practically the equivalent of cash.

[@oakleafarcher]

I had a go at making some of these out of tag archery heads. They work pretty quite nicely and are fun to shoot