How’s that? True, I used to have a compound bow that had sights on it, but there’s no reason you can’t put sights on a longbow (or shoot a compound bow using the same aiming techniques that logbowmen of yore used).
An archer can achieve good accuracy out to about 40 yards with just a little training with a compound bow, a traditional bow 20 yards with just a bit of training. Any type of survival bow one makes from green lumber would not be all that powerful but could kill and be fairly dangerous out to about 10 yards. If made by someone who knew how to make bows from good bow wood you can make something just slightly less powerful than a modern fiberglass bow.
“Yards”==Montagnards, I guess
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A Class A version as well. ASUs can be worn as all three: Dress, A, and B.
Thanks. My best laugh of the day.
The Special Forces might use them, but the Very Special Forces are not even allowed to use weapons unsupervised.
Nitpick: knapping. Napping hardly ever achieves any practical result with flint, unless you do it for a very long time.
To say nothing of sharpened mangoes.
A compound bow “locks” when fully drawn, so you can keep it drawn as long as you like to aim down sights without much effort. A regular bow doesn’t, so you’d better learn to aim fast (or better yet, learn to shoot without aiming at all), unless you like holding 150+ pounds of force in the case of an English longbow.
The longbowmen of yore, at least the military ones, didn’t aim or even shoot at individual targets at all. They instead trained to loose arrows at given range increments, as ordered. Easier to time and coordinate volleys that way, faster rates of fire, can be done when shooting in multiple ranks where the rear ranks can’t even see what there might be to shoot at etc…
Of course, I expect many of them were also hunters/poachers in peacetime, so those probably knew how to shoot *at *stuff rather than simply shooting in the general vicinity *of *stuff :).
Linkey no workey.
And I’m especially interested in a cite about hunting game. I think there are very few places on earth at the present where hunting game with arrows is easy enough that anyone doing it for sustenance would have any time left over for soldiering, especially if one is worried about being detected by hostile forces. Certainly if you’re trying to get anywhere, it’s faster to just carry a huge pack full of rations and walk slowly than it is to spend most of your day chasing game.
I think you might mean a crossbow that locks, compound bows do not lock open.
There is a let-off in the power needed to hold the string back once you get it pulled all the way back, but you still have to hold quite a few pounds. And getting the thing pulled back to start can be a bugger.
Hence the scare quotes 
but yeah, I could have phrased/explained that better, so thanks for the correction. But the point stands : a longbow can be a bugger all the way through the draw, and holding it fully drawn would in fact be the buggerest part of the process ; whereas a compound bow makes taking time to aim easier on the bowman by deliberate design.
There is an awesome show called “Dual Survival” (available on Netflix) that has two guys in various survival situations with different approaches to survival: One guy is a hardened former Army sniper redneckish good ol’ boy, the other guy is a new agey hippie who uses the indigenous people’s techniques and hasn’t worn shoes in 20+ years (in the polar region of Canada he covered his feet with wool socks to walk through the snow).
The sniper guy would improvise bows and arrows in multiple episodes just with heat treated sticks and natural fibers he could find, and successfully hunted small game with them, some of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen in my life.
The draw force on a compound bow is approx 50% higher than a traditional bow of the same draw weight.
Uh…what?
Even Green Beret Zombies?
Especially Green Beret Zombies.
Do you know how much finger strength is needed to pull a trigger on a gun? Do you know how hard it is too keep muscle tone up when you literally haven’t moved a muscle in what, months? Years?
A good Green Beret Zombie always has a Plan B ready to go.
The fact that it was a video on utube may have something to do with it.
I think they train on many different weapons that they don’t carry around with them.
And if they chew each mouthful of food 32 times, they can fletcherize AND fletch simultaneously. 
I’m surprised no one’s posted this yet: SF guy in jungle: http://www.movieposter.com/poster/MPW-59127/Hot_Shots_Part_Deux.html
And be able to sit still? Wow, they train our guys well.