Master Archer - Howard Hill

[@brucenoregon]

Howard Hill was the archer I always longed to be, I began shooting from the age of 7 along with my Dad teaching me, oh the hunting trips were magic! Now at 70 years old I still marvel at the skill of Howard Hill. If anyone is interested read Howards book, "Hunting the Hard Way" My copy is from the 60's and is a treasure.

[@WondrousEarth]

Thanks much for your experience with your own archery and Howard Hill, just amazing what he could do. I tried archery as a youth, probably not that great a bow or even the arrows, at a target ... it's a tough thing to do, and I imagine real dedication to approach mastering it ☺

[@daveware4117]

Im 44yo and only been into archery for a few years. I came from a firearms background, but archery brings something new and special to my NEED to hit a target. My son is 16 and him and i have been learning together. Its a great time! I cant understand why archery(trad) isnt more popular. Here are the advantages as i can see it. 1. My son and I can shoot in areas that would get the police called on us if we were shooting firearms 2. Much less legal issues and socal stigma over flinging arrows. Lets face it, the same neighbors that will hate you for firearm ownership(wrong as that may be) will never say a word about a couple arrows. No 4473 required to buy a bow here in the united states. 3. Extreamly challenging!!! 4 or 5 things need to go right to hit the bulleye with a gun. About 10-12 things need to go right to hit the bullseye with a bow. 4. Its somewhat althetic. Bows require some degree of strength to pull and walking back and forth to the target every 6-10 arrows is more excresize then most americans get. Its kinda sad when i go to my local archery shop and see 100 of the newest compound bows on the wall, and 6-8 trad bows. Its like people just want the easy way out, rather than developing a skill. Sad times were living in, but thats how it is i guess. Howard hill was the archer i aspire to be!

[@Aloha_Bama]

What's your thoughts on Byron Ferguson?

[@brucenoregon]

@@Aloha_Bama No doubt about it he is one hell of an archer

[@robertmclean9737]

My Dad was a Archery Nut, Howard Hill was his Hero, Shot a Long bow no less. Cheers

[@rowesamuel8586]

My cousin was friends with Howard Hill. Went hunting with him many times, he said Howard was the greatest Bowman he has ever seen.

[@MaineOutdoorsChannel]

I met Howard Hill in person when i was about 16 yrs old... I am now almost 68... He was a powerful man even in his older yrs

[@WondrousEarth]

A great memory, in addition to being an outstanding archer, he seemed a genuine and good man.

[@MaineOutdoorsChannel]

@@WondrousEarth en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hill

[@MaineOutdoorsChannel]

@@WondrousEarth i think the long bow he used for big game hunting was rated at 90 to 100 lbs or more... he was powerful to say the least... he could probably crush the avg mans hand with a handshake

[@jum1801]

Around 1974-75 I was a hospital orderly as a college student, and Mr. Hill was one of my patients. In fact this may have been during his final illness, as he died in early 1975. Mr. Hill was a gentleman of very high character, and was interested in steering young people down the right path. We struck up some conversations and he told me about his days in Hollywood on the Robin Hood movie. He didn't like it, since he and his wife were very moral, upright persons who felt Hollywood was consumed with immorality and licentiousness. He said that he and his wife went to a party at Errol Flynn's house, and they had to leave when it turned into an orgy, with people openly swapping wives and engaging in all manner of wild behavior that made the Hills feel uncomfortable and out of place. A very fine man.

[@Alejandro-te2nt]

sounds like a stick in the mud

[@darvinpreece601]

Sar Dondi I am both sad and glad to read your comments. I’d love to have met that man.

[@normedwards5305]

@Global Researchery What's that have to do with this video?

[@robertogonzalezworldmusic]

@@normedwards5305 Is not about the video but the comment we are answering to

[@HussAA23BBall]

And how is any of that immoral? Sounds like consensual behaviour to me

[@GamelessOne]

This narrator is the best hype man ever!

[@fiddlefaddle1]

I've been an archer for over sixty years and never grow tired of taking my longbow out to the field. It may sound corny but, you really become one with the arrow.

[@WondrousEarth]

What you said reminds me in a good way of an episode of the TV series Kung Fu with David Carradine, a special kind of relaxed concentration.

[@nachogroucho]

Never be another Howard Hill. He inspired me to practice constantly with the longbow. I own all thr dvd collections I can find of him. The man won I believe 126 field archery competitions in a row not to mention his hunting achievements.

[@zac3392]

Look up Lars Anderson

[@moneyandtimefreedom3352]

Not only was he good up close but often practiced and killed game at 100+ yards. He is the man. I have a bow from him no not his brother in law who copy's his and puts his name on it but the real deal. It's a prized possession. Thank for inspiring me Howard. 👍👍

[@paulhomsy2751]

No, he didn't kill game at "100 + yards". That would be highly unethical. Why not say that his arrows clipped the moon and are still orbiting or some silly exaggerated bs. A good archer does not kill at "100 + yards".

[@jjasper7512]

Late to the party on this one but had to comment! That guy on his knees with a grape on his head...more of a man than I'll ever be..watching this I imagine he had a similar thought to me.."Howard...if you miss...miss high!"

[@georgeemil3618]

1:26, the archers are leisurely shooting at the troops while they obliviously march onward.

[@johngrealey1894]

George Emil that was a scene from a film about Elizabeth 1 her troops in Ireland getting ambushed by the Irish in bogs and swamps in the late 1500s I think Errol Flynn was the leader of the English troops in the film .

[@bluebow68]

haha!..So close,yet not noticed,,even where the arrows were coming from..lol

[@yeahey5947]

I guess that’s just how the British fought back in the day

[@EmmaBrownful]

I remember watching this off of the Robin Hood DVD with Errol Flynn when I was little... I watched it over and over again and I LOVED it every single time. Howard Hill is totally amazing.

[@toxophilite6804]

This Howard Hill video bring back memories. I have not seen a Howard video sense 1965. His shooting for Errol Flynn movie in 1936, Robin Hood is the reason I took up archery in 1960. I'm still on the bow today.🎯

[@DaveK385]

The Golden Age of Hollywood, when you could make the prop girls stand next to the targets.

[@bluebow68]

lol..The only time they walked a safe distance away was when he was shooting at a playing card..Forget the eye protection from flying glass!

[@mikegman7502]

Yup yup stand riiiight there perfect don't move

[@Liofa73]

@pattherealist --- You're calling dreadful the movement that is protecting future generations of girls and women from sex fiends and misogynists... I guess you don't care about that... How sad.

[@thomdrolet2624]

@@Liofa73 I think they are referring to the fact that a persons life can be destroyed with no evidence just an accusation, and no penalty to a false accuser. If you want metoo to be taken seriously then advocate for sentences for false accusers. Assault is serious but so is destroying someone's life because you don't like them or made a decision you later regret.

[@letssee8397]

When actors had real experts

[@karlhungus8946]

I think the takeaway here is that Howard Hill's back yard was a bad place to be if you were in bare feet.

[@senatorjosephmccarthy2720]

Karl Hungus + At least one of the girls didn't catch a glass shard in the eye. Back then, people were untrained in safety.

[@timothywalker2133]

Or if you were Renaissance Reenactor! He was shooting at that bozo's brain with broadheads!

[@stevencoates3382]

Or if you were trying to steal his shit!

[@panzerd5248]

The greatest of all time. Howard Hill inspired me to hunt with the Longbow. Now I can't put it down.

[@briancollins1579]

It's reading about him that got me to shoot archery as well and why I stayed away from compound bows...ick!

[@panzerd5248]

Compounds are easy which is why more people shoot them. Most people want instant success with out having to put in the work. Crossbows are not even a bow and shouldn't be allowed during archery season, unless someone is very disabled.

[@panzerd5248]

+Tamesumstrange I am an Archery Instructor and I teach people how to shoot Compounds and Traditional. With a bow that's properly set up I can have some one hitting bulls at 20 yds within a few hours with a Compound bow, not so with a Longbow or Recurve. Why would you want to shoot at an animal at 60 yds with a bow. You see this is the problem I have with people shooting the Compound bow and trying to make hits at 60 yds. I believe that for the most part taking shots that far is unethical, because most people can't do it. But they watch to many of these Hunting shows that are garbage, and they see other people trying it so they want to do it. Bow hunting is about challenging yourself and trying to get as close to your animal as you can. This is why I gave up the Compound and went Traditional. With today's compounds and all the gadgets to go along with them, bow hunting has become to easy. But that's just my opinion and you know what they say about opinions.

[@ronw484]

Just your opinion? Don't put yourself down. An informed opinion is far superior to an uninformed one. If it were not so, when I wanted to invest in stocks (for example) I wouldn't talk to a stock broker- I'd just get free advice from the wino on the street corner.

[@steelgila]

A lot of those tricks apparently can only be accomplished with the ol' Long bow. Howard was a strict adherent of the long bow,all others deemed by him to be inferior.

[@deans0209]

He was so good that the stunt men were paid extra if he allowed them to put a piece of wood under their chain mail so that Hill could shoot an arrow at them.

[@WondrousEarth]

'Among his many achievements in archery, Howard Hill in 1928 set a new world record for the farthest recorded flight shot with a bow and arrow, at 391 yards (358 m). That same year, he won his 196th field archery competition in a row. Hill, though, was not only one of the most decorated archers in the modern era of target shooting, hunting, and flight archery competitions, he was also a celebrated writer and producer. During his career, he produced 23 films about archery for Warner Bros. He also produced 10 different films of his own and was a technical adviser in far more motion pictures, providing his expertise in the field.' ~ Wikipedia

[@reiyen4761]

I want to see and modern day archer shoot a prune with same distance today! This dude was a beast!

[@quartzteeth8429]

I have seen modern day archers shoot the little camera in the centre of the target at 70 meters.

[@fiacradoyle7474]

Lars Andersen....

[@scottlaugher-flintknapping]

I'm an English archer and i grew up hearing stories of his shooting. My dad was a champion archer and my brother and i always had a bow in our hand as kids. He was the greatest!! Fairly sure he still holds all sorts of crazy records. He did hold the record at one time for distance, number of arrows in the air at once,he beat the mexican skeet champion shooting clays with his bow and arrows against a shotgun😂,he shot and killed a sperm whale, went big game fishing with the bow,shot everything in Africa,strung the heaviest bow sat down and then there's the trick shooting,movies,Errol Flynn,etc. Goat !!

[@michaelkaye4998]

My brother was a friend of Howard’s. The shot together many times. I have two of the hill bows. Both made by the Schmidt brothers who had the rights from Howard.

[@WondrousEarth]

I imagine the Hill bows are very well crafted, good memories ☺

[@marvinc9994]

Great stuff - and knowing what the narration ("pretty girls" etc) would do to modern Feminists is an added pleasure!

[@thebudkellyfiles]

When I was a kid, I saw Howard Hill doing his trick shots at the Ringling Bros. Circus in Madison Square Garden, NYC. Very cool.

[@AprilTheRockStar]

Itchyback This guy is my great-great uncle (my grandfather's uncle). He died four years before I was born, but my grandfather, grandmother, parents, aunts, uncles and so many other people have told me time and again about watching Uncle Howard shoot. He shot dimes out of the air and was the first white man to kill an elephant with a bow and arrow. None of this is trick photography; it's all Uncle Howard.

[@Itchyback]

And Chris Angel can walk on water and fly. How many Olympic medals did your great-great uncle win? Surely man with such skills would have won olympic medal with great ease. (Archery has been in olympics when he lived.)

[@AprilTheRockStar]

Probably, but it wouldn't pay him what he was making in Hollywood. You don't have to believe me or my family, but I'm pretty sure the Halls of Fame that inducted him wouldn't have done so without verifying that he could actually do these shots. Either way, I'm not trying to start an argument with you. I just thought I'd try to help convince you it's not camera trickery, and that there's a reason he's still considered the world's greatest archer.

[@Itchyback]

***** And Howard still couldn't have hit a coin on the air or another arrow on a target WITHOUT a line. FULL STOP.

[@RSQuickSave]

Itchyback I understand where you fall short of believing these comments but it's not impossible. You can hit a coin in mid air as well as split another arrow on the target. Sometimes a little luck is involved as well. Don't be so rash to judge next time. Thanks :)

[@Itchyback]

You can hit a coin in mid air when you have a guiding line between coin and the arrow. You might hit a coin in mid air once without a line but you can't repeat it constantly. It's simply because how the arrow flies, it wobbles [quite a lot] rather than have a straight trajectory like bullets. And you can't split a medieval arrow fully from tail to tip simply because it isn't hollow.

[@onehandjede]

Howard hill is my great great great uncle I'm happy to be related to him

[@user-np6jv4we8q]

He is my great great cousin......

[@zac3392]

None of my ancestors were on the Mayflower...

[@loupoisson64]

Love archery. Love Howard Hill,Fred Bear and all the classic archers.Thanks for uploading .

[@SpecialSoldier109]

My wife's maiden name is Hill and i swear he looks IDENTICAL to her uncle!

[@connorrothermel1386]

Yes he was the greatest.

[@NipsnTips1099]

Howard Hill may have been a real-life Hawkeye or Green Arrow. Just imagine what this man could’ve done as a dramatic masked vigilante.

[@WondrousEarth]

So pleased you enjoyed it! I happened to see him one night on TCM, he's the most talented archer I've seen. That's amazing history you shared about the horse Flying Cloud, renamed to Trigger. I used to watch Roy Rogers as a boy and love the show :) Though for some reason when I was about five, Gabby Hayes used to scare the poop out of me!

[@E-BikingAdventures]

Now I know why parents are so agrivating. They grew up listening to narrators like this.

[@thanosperl5451]

Those pants look soo comfortable.

[@jmc0075]

What a shot that man was brilliant.

[@Guitcad1]

When he shoots the apple and prune off the guy's head, the fact that the arrow "ricochets" tells me that it's not the broadhead that we see right before he shoots, but rather a blunted point. I suspect that the obvious wig the guy is wearing is concealing some sort of armored head protection. It would be absolutely *_insane_* not to take some precaution. Even if Hill never missed, he *_could_* miss, and even a blunted arrow to the back of the head could be fatal.

[@ArkansasHorseshoeingSchool]

The guy in the wig was Vernon "Buster" Wiles who is in the Stuntman Hall of Fame and I believe he wore a metal skull cap.

[@ICOWBOYIM]

🎶.....it was a different time.....it was a different world 🎶 / Bucky Covington.

[@solanumtuberosa]

Robin Hood has been real quiet since this dropped

[@EmmaBrownful]

I love how he can do this with a simple bow, simple arrows, without any fancy stuff... :) Pure awesomness and skillage!!

[@-bernieburn711]

Filmed in 1937 and released in 1945. Auditioning for playing in Robin Hood film in 1938, Howard talked about the last sequence of shooting fruits on Walther Wilhelm's head, to Jack Warner of the Warner brothers company, when this one asked to him: Do you have experience in archery shooting?

[@WondrousEarth]

Very interesting, thank you. Did Howard then go on to land a role in the Robin Hood film, the one you are referring to is the one with Errol Flynn?

[@-bernieburn711]

Yes John, this film is a collage and from 1:30 min, we can see Robin Hood sequences with Howard splitting the arrow in two at 2:00 minutes. A great moment of the film.

[@huntingvuk]

hahahahaha, Gabby? ha! I had the pleasure of seeing "The Roy Rogers Show" as reruns when I was VERY young the memory is still with me like thousands of others before me I idolized Roy & fell in love with Dale,Not so long a go I rented some Roy Rogers films from "Netflix" some films I watched remembering how "good" they were turned out out not so hot but the Roy Rogers films still make great feelings and are fun to watch!:)

[@WondrousEarth]

I felt just the same way Diane! I thought the man was brave with the apple and the prune, I can't imagine doing that, no matter how good the archer! You're right, today's kids often are glued to tv or the computer ... my mom on good days would tell me it was time to play outside! You're right, with this archer, you'd always have something to eat! Blessings! @-------

[@ethanthompson6890]

I’ve heard so many stories about this man from my uncle. He was a good friend of Howard and the only other man who could rival him with a bow. My first bow was a longbow given to my uncle from Howard and holy shit the power and vibration from that thing

[@WondrousEarth]

Aye, lass! And Robin was always a true gentleman and loving man with Maid Marian, even when she did not take too well to his Saxon heritage ... what a great memory Gabriella, of making a bow and arrow, this stirred a memory of mine from boyhood, when I tried too though most hard to do with a hand made bow :)) I was a great shot with a slingshot, beautiful dreams .. *.*

[@mariannesisler2020]

people who dislike this video,seeing the greatest archer god has ever and will produce.Make me sick

[@TacDyne]

They are all fat, have blue hair and thick glasses and will never, ever get laid. We call them FUBWABA, which is fat ugly bitch with a bad attitude. Some people just call them SJWs nowadays.

[@jeremiahcometa2318]

as if nobody else cloud possibly become that good at archery. if its possible others will complete and even surpass these feats not to say howard hill wasnt an amazing human of remarkable talents

[@WV591]

A gifted archer.

[@benysy1022]

8:26 8:27 For safety the arrow made by soft material

[@troy9327]

Just such huge fletchings, it floats

[@stevearce1498]

Grand Master 🏹 🎯

[@LuckLampLicker]

Next time I go to the archery club I'm gonna ask one of the guys to stand with an apple on their head whilst I take pot shots.

[@robmendez8526]

Amazing Archer! Instinctive too! Would just like to see some further distance shots

[@starocean1234]

Great video. Thanks

[@Endorphins27]

I have just placed a lightbulb on a string- it's still swinging , now to wait patiently for Howard to show up.

[@drumphil00]

Occupational health and safety for the win!

[@poo8448]

I think Lars Anderson might give him a run for his money

[@paultoth6701]

Howard Hill was a hunter. He was a proponent of heavy bows and heavy arrows. His favorite hunting bow named, " Grandpa " had an 85 lb draw weight. The bow he used for small game, " Grandma " , had a 65 lb draw weight. in 1950 he was the 1st white Man ever known to kill an Elephant with a Bow and Arrow the draw weight on that bow was 115 lbs. He would regularly shoot one of his bows with a draw weight of 172 lbs. As good as Lars Anderson is, an no disrespect in his abilities, he couldn't even pull Half of Howard Hills Bows back, let alone, tie his shoes !!!

[@johnminnitt8101]

@@paultoth6701 Hill also won many field shoots, did target and flight archery as well as hunting, good a Lars' trick shooting is he doesn't seem to have any record in those areas. And does he do the trick stuff live rather than on video as Hill did?

[@jeffsmith50001]

Raised Right Men.

[@jayman448]

then shoot the same tourney with a bare recurve or longbow... granted some skill is still required with modern bows, not nearly as much is required. you can give someone a compound and they will hit the bullseye within minutes.. hand em a longbow and it could take months

[@tjscott395]

But I thought Jim MacQuarrie was the greatest archer that ever lived? He's the one that sent me here! Something about how this would show up some guy named Lars.

[@mattheweskender7781]

That reminds on The adventures of Robin hood DVD.

[@maple1255]

I agree, I read or saw that Howard Hill was a coach on the set of Robin Hood. They wanted that unique sound of an arrow flying through the air which we hear in the movie, and they were able to create that sound just as we hear it ... it has to do with the feathers at the back, how they are formed with respect to the rest of the arrow ☺

[@wolverine5300]

Howard Hill inspires me to keep practicing and training to improve. I've hit a tennis ball at 10 yards and occasionally a ping pong ball. but I will work on getting better

[@scottlaugher-flintknapping]

Practice practice practice. Just keep going until your arrows start hitting in groups and then when the grouping becomes a constant.. adjust to suit. With practice you'll be putting a dozen arrows in that tennis ball at 60yrds. You just have to put in the many hours it's gonna take. Eventually it's just second nature at any distance and you'll be able to send arrow after arrow exactly where you want. Just keep practicing and practicing and practicing. 👍

[@piotrcusworth2077]

The American film about the long bow and referring to English sport as archery is full if Glaring Errors. Some time ago I waa watching another terrific American documentary that discussed the attack on Jerusalem by Richard I (the Lionheart) of England I'm 1227. Sadly King Richard would have missed the opening gambit of the 'battle' as Richard of Anjou, Coeur de Lion and King of England died in 1199. In this video the writers refer to the King of England in the 12th century being Richard III. Once again a Glaring error as Richard III reigned in the middle of the 14th century. Friendly fire we assume. Get it right boys!

[@piotrcusworth2077]

Please do not assume that anyone is criticising the gentleman himself as a person or as an archer. It is the production companies that seem not to do their homework. If anyone has drawn a Long Bow fully to the ear they will know the physical strength needed to loose an arrow; then comes the aiming of the projectile under such strain. Well done Howard!

[@adventussaxonum448]

Richard III was late 15th century. Good point though.

[@peezebeuponyou3774]

"During the 12th Century, the soldiers of Richard III..."

[@Hungrybird474]

I love shooting bows

[@MichaelAussie05]

Great short clip thanks for the upload amazing shooting there I am new to the sport and this type of shooting is nothing short of amazing.

[@danhughes3626]

How dangerous...times were different then Ride in back of trucks no helmet for riding bikes 22 rifle in back of my truck rear window.... no one would think twice.. No school shootings... 70s 80s music Where talent and individual artists I miss those days....true story

[@biglunk5064]

KING

[@pian1441]

Gilrs at that era was very polite

[@oopurpledove]

James Jean is an amazing archer!!

[@mahatma_gandalf]

"Chief Big Thunder and Chief Buffalo Killer!" Also known as Two People Who Never Existed.

[@PHARRAOH]

my grandfather and his cousin

[@mikedebell2242]

Everything is safety now.

[@harleyme3163]

omg. I learned on a 40 pound Howard Hill longbow . trained by Don and Carol Berry, Carol was an olympic archer when she was younger,

[@toxophilite6804]

Harley Me For me arrows in flight are my lifelong passion. Longbows and recurve with hand built arrows matching the weight of the bow, beautiful🎯

[@youngchool]

3:55 She must be her daughter. Lots of trust and confidence!

[@Coste1072]

I'm sure underneath that thick wig that guy must have been wearing a steel helmet. I certainly would not pose for that shot without one even if Howard Hill was the archer. He makes it look so easy. Great archer, a natural..

[@jadeddragon4254]

The arrows that he shot with the apple and prune were not normal arrows. That's why they cut away for the draw. You can tell they are a much lighter much safer arrow for such a stunt. That's even too crazy for him to take the risk.

[@jonwright3723]

Love the "that's how it's done babe" from 4:43 to 4:51.

[@ENIGMAXII2112]

BRAVO, BRAVO...!! BRAVO..!!!

[@jimmyanderson2144]

That old boy killed lot of big game during his time

[@feliperivera5931]

Shooting a broadhead against a man's head...dude, it made me hold my breath

[@TacDyne]

Watch the movement of the arrows. They are so light that they wouldn't penetrate bone if they did hit. So light that the fruits caused them to alter course by several degrees. Also, the guy has protection under the wig and clothing.

[@decimated550]

NuSenei should do a response video against mr Hill, admonishing him for recklessness

[@kaizen5023]

I recall from another vid that the guy with the fruit on his head had a helmet under that wig for safety.

[@feliperivera5931]

@@kaizen5023 but if he miss and shoot against his neck?

[@bluebow68]

@@feliperivera5931He has long hair..remember..with protection underneath that..

[@chrishill1286]

This is just the tip of the iceberg for his talent. Of course I am biased, my last name is Hill and hunt with a bow that has no sights. It's called instinctive shooting. Fred Bear was a renowned 20th century archery hunter who was my hero till I found out about Howard. This man could shoot dimes out of the air!

[@tompanetti75]

Thanks John.

[@AdilsonPinheiro7339]

*Howard Hill, o Robin Hood do mundo real*

[@mycatrain3837]

That was really cool....

[@austinbinn9851]

They do require some skill But nothing like a longbow iv been shooting for years and make my own bows

[@kevinbull8324]

Richard III reigned at the end of the 15th century! Richard I was England's 12th century king! History not his strong suit!

[@chais1111]

Boy times have changed. Now days, in our political world insurance companies and law suits would be all over this. Imagine someone shooting an arrow over someones head....

[@wertfreund2480]

Well since it was around we WWll I guess Hill was that clever to let this guy wear a bulletproof helmet under the wig. 😉👌

[@rlepola]

Modern arrow rest (window)built into a modern "longbow" which illimits the archers paradox. Also the draw weight of this trick shot bow was max 20 lbs jud. At 8 min 26s you see a shot where the arrow bounces back in view.after.hitting the target. I have never seen this happening using anything other than rubber tips.on any bow from 10 to 100 lbs. Apperantly mr Hughes used.rubber tip arrows.for his trick shots.and as seen in editing branches cutting blade arrow heads where standard target tips whould have been enough. Please, so not use this genteleman as an influence nor reference for your understanding of true medeival archery. Almost omitting to mention the part where this man wearing a heavy layer of false.hair kneeling with an apple.on his head is actually having a.layer of protection under his false hair to substain the hit of a rubber tip arrow shot as many times as necessary to get the film done..

[@WondrousEarth]

What you said make a great deal of sense with the rubber tipped arrows in the event that one of them did accidentally hit one of his models, participants

[@vapormissile]

Yeah, Muir. Makes sense. They were devious back then, too. That makes it less-scary. But ... "Hey! Eye-protection!?!"

[@danielraven3855]

oh man I saw this happen on a target hit with two arrows almost simultaneously, the first hit and sent the shockwave into the second causing it to bounce a meter away from the target. very cool phenomenon

[@brianc6739]

Holy crap I can’t believe people actually believed this could possibly be real😂of course they wouldn’t endanger lives.

[@johncolletti]

Brian C in the making of Robin Hood , stunt men who were willing to take an arrow in the chest or back would get $150 for each one. Big money back in the thirties. Under their costumes they wore wooden planks , they used real arrows and Howard never missed. So yeah , they would risk people’s lives and still do today.

[@1Whipperin]

Great shot who was confident enough to put humans in the kill zone. I wonder if the long hair on the stooge with the apple on his head was hiding a helmet. I hope so.

[@huntingvuk]

Very cool! thank you!Not many people know about what a great talent Howard Hill was! Oh by the way the palomino horse("Flying Cloud") in the "Robin Hood" classic was the horses' movie debut, so good, the horse was bought by Leonard sly(Roy Rogers) and renamed "Trigger" :)

[@alex-6710]

Free mustache rides ladies!

[@piotrcusworth2077]

AS, Thanks for your observation. I did in fact correct this typo immediately after I issued the full statement. Regards

[@hunterfisher35]

he is the king

[@Blagger3000]

was

[@diane308]

That was the days without computers! Hours of practice and passion can bring you to number one!!! I would not put the apple on my head for a million! LOL! Perfect guy to have around if you are lost in the wood and need to eat! Fantastic vid my friend! TY for sharing! Blessings! @-------

[@emilevisser7457]

These people clearly did not have any safety back then The girl sits like 1 m away from the target while that guy shoots towards her and the target from 10 m away as well as shooting an apple of a guys head 😖😖😖😖😖

[@taylorhaws6402]

The William Tell shot was significantly less dangerous than this video would have you believe. First of all, that man is wearing protection under a wig and costume. secondly, if you watch the arrow at 7:47 you will see that it bounces off the target, meaning that the sharp broadhead arrow is actually made of rubber. thirdly, he is using a much lighter bow than he normally would. So while he is really good, he is also not stoopid.

[@mrshr3d]

What the hell happened at 2:12 ??? Huge bounce-out lol

[@holoholohaolenokaoi2299]

unequaled skill even today

[@emanuelebertelli4795]

Insuperabile!

[@williamkoppos7039]

O M G Imaging the freakouts from the PC crowd if they saw this. BTW I'm thinking that "William Tell" had a helmet on under that wig. Hill was good but NOBODY that crazy. Great fun Vid.

[@johnlaccohee-joslin4477]

Tipical American reporting. The difference between Ribin of Locksley is that tornaments where shot at a hundred yards, not fifty foot. Plus most hunting bows ( used for tornaments) were fity pounds and i can tell you from persnal practice that you cannot hold a bowstring as he did with the mirrow at near waste hight. I come from a family of archers and started stooting at seven years old along with my sister, there were no fancy bows just after the war and my father was a master carpenter and made all the equipment arrows and all. At one hundred yards the target had a wall of staw bales behind it about ten foot, sometimes there where two walls of bales, and even then the arrows would escape through both and we would spend time looking for them as the tend to burrow their way into the ground. A shoot was 144 arrows in rounds of five and at closer range the target got a lot smaller and still do today. My family still pratice the art and are teaching their children as well so it will be a skill they have forever. As for hunting, mainly rabbit, its considered bad form to miss a sure kill shot, and nine times out of ten the arrow carried the rabbit a good few feet from the place it was first hit. The most amazing shoot was called clout, shoot at 200yard and wa usually done with what is known as a war bow. The target is marked out on the ground with small flags, thevsame size as a normal target, the idea was to shoot into the air and drop your arrow into the target, you would be amazed at how many arrows go way past the target at the begining, for this shoot i got my first full size bow with a draw weight of seventy five pounds at a twenty eigth inch draw length, that when wearing a chest guard came into its own for real.

[@RGVNC]

Archery and chill

[@WondrousEarth]

Best ☺

[@KhadijahJoySams93]

Cool

[@NathanChisholm041]

Damn those Chics had some nice bods 😂

[@musikk83]

8:25 no cgi used xD

[@eqlzr2]

Ha ha. Obviously this was before the term "lawyer-proof".

[@marjanpodrzaj1518]

Greatest archer ever, not to mention his bow hunting skills and trophies.