“Clearly he was shot by an archer in a helicopter.”
Actually, they are. Close, I mean.
Here’s a .22LR. I have this same setup. You can’t hear it from 40 feet away.
Here’s a .308 bolt gun. (7.62mm) This is a very loud round. Skip to 1:25 to avoid annoying music. The 3 year old is much louder.
Even using supersonic rounds, you may hear the crack of the bullet, but you can’t tell where it came from. If I sit on the goal line of a football field, you stand on the 50, and I shoot past you to the other goal line, you will hear a “crack” - a miniature sonic boom - as the bullet goes by, but your ears simply won’t give you a direction of where that noise came from, much less the muzzle and action noise of the gun 50 yards away.
This is why more and more soldiers are using suppressors. Not to be “silent”, but to hide their muzzle flash, and the source of the shot. If you’re a bad guy, and getting shot at by US troops, all you’ll hear before you get shot may be a bullet impacting the wall next to you. As you think “what the hell was that?” the next shot is on it’s way to meet you!
Yeah, Hollywood wants you to think that a suppressed pistol shot sounds the same as a paperclip dropped on a tile floor, but we’re not that close. Yet.
If you don’t kill him he is going to remember where he was standing, so will the guys he was standing next too. Direction of blood spatter as well.
The Perfect Master on the military usefulness - or not - of bows and arrows during the American Revolution: In 1776, why didn’t soldiers use bows and arrows instead of muskets? - The Straight Dope
There’s a Class B version of the ASUs, just like there was with the old Greens.
Those are the 20 seconds the you need to escape.
And if he’s got a boxing glove on the end of his arrow?
Game over!
There’s an armed insurrection in Toontown?
Training with a compound bow would be mostly useless to use a self-made bow. And I doubt you could make such a bow without a quite long training. I suspect there are things more important to learn for special forces than Arrow making and flint napping.
Those were impressive videos. The first wasn’t too surprising, I’ve heard a properly silenced gun is about as loud as a staple gun but the second video was incredibly silent. All you could really hear was him pulling the trigger and the ping of the target being hit.
Screwing around on youtube, apparently you can make a temporary suppressor out of an oil filter. Neat.
Pppfffttt. I’ve seen movies. Someone hit by an arrow or crossbow, clutches the shaft then collapses to the floor, instantly dead. Why there’s rarely even blood.
One advantage to an arrow is it cuts through a kevlar vest like butter.
I don’t know why archery skills with compound bows would be useless for longbow shooting. You probably can’t make a bow from scratch that you could hand down to your kids without practice and a lot of time (you generally have to season the staves), but there are types of survival bows that can be made from green wood (like the Father-and-Son bow - see a video on this on youtube by a guy called maveraver), or other things like flexible fiberglass tent poles bundled together. Arrow making is harder.
Rob
And if you’re going to go googling for information on arrow making, the feathers are called “fletching”. I strongly recommend you be very careful with your spelling if you want to look at images.
“Quick! Stand back up and face the same way you were when you got shot, so we can see where the archer is! What are the odds he’ll have a second arrow?”
The Crossbow and the Bow in Modern Warfare
The Green Berets are not mentioned above, but documented cases of bow and arrow usage in 20th century Western warfare abound, especially between WW II and the Vietnam War. Silent and flashless are the main advantages, and survival hunting of arboreal game behind enemy lines is one of the main applications.
I read somewhere that the French special forces use crossbows for the silence as one of their tools.
And Rambo makes great use of a bow and arrow.
If you are all walking in 5he same direction (like soldiers do) or sitting around a fire and someone takes an arrow in the back its not hard to figure where it came from. You assume that soldiers in the field are just walking willy nilly.
poke you.
Because you don’t aim at all in the same way with a compound bow and with a longbow.