100 Yards! Long Range shooting PRIMITIVE recurve bow 

Haha! My son hit one a while back.

Lol 😂

Aim at the camera and maybe you'll hit the target!

Thanks Gary

You got the words flat Earth moron in the wrong order

No I'm a retired U.S. MARINE and I was a Marksmanship instructor while I served. I also shot Artillery as my primary M.O.S. for those 21 years.. and I can tell u from my ballistics and marksmanship Training and Experience. Lobbing projectiles through the air to a fixed point is part science part art.... The Earth is spinning and moving.. so u get something called the "correolis" effect on the projectile. But the human brain is so complex that it will take into account these many factors. Over time. That's why "PRACTICE" is so important. U develop neurons.that will make u a better Hunter a better marksman... A better killer... More precise.. it's by design.. We're designed to become better Hunter gatherers evolution has built it in God has built it in...all we need to do is accept it. And then train and Believe... And u will get the desired results. More accurate,more deadly.. .more food on the table..

Bryan Calhoun thank you for your service

That coriolis effect thing sounds fun, but it looks like it's not significant: www.archerytalk.com/vb/showthread.php?t=380886

I'm gonna call bullshit on the Correolis effect, it's not there, Don't exist and there has been a 50,000 reward offered by anyone that can prove it

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Might wanna proof read there bud

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That's a great feeling. Because they can't,- cant or tilt the bow or create a ark. It all sights like a rifle. Also it's funny if they drop a compound they kind of freak out.

Brantley Thornton Jesus Christ you look like Zeus

I honestly feel this is the big separator between trad and compound shooting. You have more options. String walking, gap, instinctive, sights marks on riser or string. In reality who really cares. I know I have spent years shooting instinctive with an old Bear Grizzly in 3d shoots against guys with compounds with all the bells and whistles. I am just happy to have people to shoot with. I also have just started to try this gap/string walking. I am definately tightening my groups which is far better for big game, however, shooting on the wing is a different story. All types of shooting have pros and cons. The pro to all though is they are fun.

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Thanks Nic

Thanks David

I try not to direct criticism toward the individual archer as everyone is at a different place on their archery pathway. This guy is shooting a self bow and trying to learn how to master it. Good for him! Just showing off what a traditional bow can do is a big boost for archery as it inspires others to give it a try. It's unfair to say he is not in love with archery. We don't know his interest level. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. Yes, it could be that making You Tube videos on a popular subject like archery is just a way to fatten his wallet and that could be the only motivating force at work. But after watching the video, this guy has an true archer's approach to shooting that self bow. It isn't his first day at the archery range. So he probably isn't doing this just to make a buck. He is approaching using this bow in a well recognized manner, which is known as gap shooting. There's nothing wrong with that, if it is what you want to do. It is even considered a form of instinctive shooting, although in my opinion it's a method that is just lining up two point in a "sight window" which is the equivalent of aiming through any other kind of bow sight. For me, instinctive shooting requires NO use of sighting aids or schemes. I'm not saying using sights is bad or wrong. Anything that gets bows in the hands of people who learn how to use and appreciate them is a good thing in my book I'm just saying pure instinctive shooting without trying to line up two points and hold to a fixed gap between them is a more challenging shooting method. My point was to say that since he has figured out how to group arrows in a target at long distances by the gap shooting method then why not step up to the next level of pure instinctive shooting? I'd love to watch some more videos of his efforts to learn to do just that. If anyone is interested, I have a video on my channel of me demonstrating basic instinctive shooting with my 50 year old Bear Kodiak Magnum recurve. In it you will see me doing all my shooting without an arm guard. I stopped using one of those about 30 years ago, once I mastered the use of the correct shooting form. The point there is that as you master archery, you rely less and less on any sort of crutch. Primitive archers had nothing more than a bow and the arrow to work with. They didn't even use shooting gloves or tabs, just their bare fingers. Yet they killed game. BTW, at a traditional archery shop a few years ago the shop owner invited me to check out his 3-D target range. I had my bow but only one dilapidated arrow with one of the three fletchings gone. I had no shooting glove or anything else. The shooting line was elevated on a hill about 20 feet higher than the targets to simulate shooting from a tree stand. For some reason, this shop owner seemed intent on testing me to see if I really was a genuine instinctive shooter. So the test came down to me shooting one single arrow at any target I chose on an unfamiliar range which I had to shoot bare fingered and for which I was handicapped by using an arrow with only two feathers. I guess that was a fair test, don't you? What this owner didn't know is that I had hundreds of times in my life shot my bow bare fingered, although it hurts like hell to do so. And I had also shot many shafts with one, two, or even all three feathers gone. So I said nothing and just knocked the arrow. I failed the test. Miscalculating the height of the shooting hill and the angle downward to the target, I shot a bit over the deer's back. It was a nicely lined up shot but just too high. I think I saw the shop owner grin a bit. My friend who was with me retrieved my arrow while I continued to chat with the shop owner. When he got back with my arrow, I grinned at the shop owner and said I wan'ted to take another shot. This time I my two feather arrow hit the deer right in the neck artery where the neck joins the chest. Not a great shot but a fatal one nevertheless so I just politely said "Dead deer" and went to get my arrow. When I shoot my bow, I just focus on the target, not my bow or any part of the bow or arrow, and shoot. I use the same technique a baseball pitcher uses to throw a ball precisely where he wants to locate it That is, a pitcher doesn't try to find a point in the distance to aim at and line up the knuckles on his hand at the point of release. He just throws the pitch and lets the muscle memory etched into his body that guided the thousands of pitches thrown before take over. All he does is look at the catcher's glove. Good pitchers don't need to have a crutch to aim with. They just need the confidence that they can throw the ball to hit where they want to. Archery is the same. Confidence in your own innate ability honed after thousands of practice shots will do the trick. People ask me how to be a good traditional archer and I always reply the same: "Get a bow that fits you and fire 3,000 to 5,000 arrows per year for 50 years. You will get better!" That's the exact same principle that a basketball coach requires of every player. He lines all of them up for endless free throw practice, even though every one of them know how to make a free throw. But it is the endless practice that hones the skill of shooting by instinct. Just my 2 cents. Feel free to differ.

Life on Trehan Creek In some of his other videos he talks about how he uses point of aim for long shots such as the one in this video. He has also used Gap in some of them and instimctive for others which leads me to believe that he is quite a well rounded bowman but I enjoyed your Comment it was very informative

Brandon, I agree with you. Clay Hayes is a nationally known and respected archer who is a talented, well rounded bowman. Which is why I didn't want to see anyone taking aim at him. This was simply one of the rare videos where Clay was just having fun trying out long distance shooting. It wasn't trying to teach anyone anything or offer instructions on how to shoot at long distances. He said he had never shot a bow at that distance before. It was purely about the challenge of being able to hit the target at that distance and he aced it. This video was for pure entertainment and I genuinely enjoyed it. Hope to see Clay post many more!

Hello Mr. Life of Trehan Creek, I started archery late in life, a month shy of being 44 years old. Started off shooting a Sammick Sage 30 pound bow and was getting good bull's eye shots at 15 yards. For my 44th birthday I bought myself some 55 pound limbs and after 15 shots my shoulder didn't feel so good so I stopped, the next day I couldn't move my right arm. Four months later I can move my arm but still can get some good levels of pain if I use my arm too much (already been looked at by a doctor). I am not a hunter and I thought I was in pretty good shape being retired military, just shooting for fun. Should I stick with the 30 pound bow and retire the 55 pounder? Should I work my way back up? What max weight would you recommend? Should I switch over to compound bow to make it easier on the shoulder? If so what pound of compound bow would you recommend? I have been shooting guns all my life by the way and tried archery because it was getting too easy to shoot guns, even pistols are not much of a challenge, even push my target to the full length of an indoor range when I shoot pistols and can even outshoot other people that are using rifles. I can take the criticism by the way, please speak freely and thank you very much sir in advance. God bless you!

Once you learn instinctive shooting your bow arm will rise to that exact height everytime automatically and subconsciously no matter how far away, and your eye never leaves your target. It is addictive.

Thanks David

Indeed

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Haha! I get a lot of comments on that bow.

This one will have copperhead skins on it soon!

Maybe ragging on someone shouldn’t be your first thought

This bow is 63lbs@28.5”. Arrows are about 600 grains.

Hi Joel, I covered the sinew backing process for this bow on my Patreon site. Www.patreon.com/clayhayes

These are carbon. I needed some arrows for a hunt and didn’t have any bamboo shafts spined heavy enough. I’ll be making some up soon though.

tom miller those are carbon arrows there gold tip classic xt im pretty sure awesome arrows

Heck, as long as you’re satisfied with your shooting, go for it!

@@clayhayeshunter Thanks for replying, love your bow,has a soul of its own, mine is a recurve made by Bear Archery way back when. Couldn't get used to compounds either.

Bear made some nice bows!

@@clayhayeshunter Oh yes!

Yes it does!

Yeah, Mr Hill was one of the best!

@Darren Harper sure. You need split finger(lowering the knock in reference to the eye) though to do that or a very fast bow( flater trajectory)

I think a heavier arrow would be less affected by wind but it makes for a higher trajectory which makes the up and down aim more critical.

Hi Ken, yes this is a bow I made from Osage orange. Part of the process can be seen at www.patreon.com/clayhayes

Hey Clay thanks..... I`m gonna check it out. Like I said, this is all new to me, but I am more than intrigued.......

All these selfbow/primitive bows are unique.

I built it.

@@clayhayeshunter nice! I built a few sinew backed oak bows myself and found them to shoot much faster when snap shooting. I wonder if the same is true for Osage/sinew in your experience. Osage being especially soft, I would think its even more important to snap shoot for more power. never had an Osage bow myself.

Look at some of the elk hunting setup videos I’ve done.

1 foot group check out my vid :)

Cool

Those are RW Targets from Bigshot Archery. They’re super nice.

@@clayhayeshunter Thanks! I'll check them out.

One can buy a 6-10 year old top of the line bow for a few hundred dollars and they shoot as good as newer ones. Anyhow I 100% agree the target in the video does not look like 100y. More like 40-60. The dark part at the end of the trimmed/pushed down vegetation, looks to be 100y away.

Several. There are dates and details at www.twistedstave.com

Hi Bill, I’m giving classes in Milton. Not far from Pensacola. We’ve got one class each month through June. There’s more info at twistedstave.com . Shoot me a message via the contact form there. Ch

I generally pay no attention to my string. Since I cant the bow it’s out of my vision.

@@clayhayeshunter my arrows seem to go to the left. Even though I have a that arrow aligned to the target. Any advice based off that? Thanks.

This reminds me I need to watch - The Patriot , Mel Gibson’s exact quote .

I’m not much of a competition shooter so I don’t know the rules.

Slingshots are cool too!

@@clayhayeshunter So true , there both just 2 forms of archery, check out my slingshot shooting videos.

Will do

@@clayhayeshunter Thanks bro

It may be that the fellow shooting the turkey edited the video deleting his misses? Hitting a target as small as a turkey at 100 yards isn't an easy task but anything is possible . I once hit a flag pole at 150 yards with my home made Cedar bow and no one was more surprised than I.

@@mattedwards4533 no no, there was no editing. The video was uncut. The camera ran through as he dropped several arrows in there. I was speechless.

@@AFCAWorldBodybuildingArchive, Editing was just a thought. I said,"he may have edited the video" not that he did edit it. I have shot with people that I considered great shooters and have never seen any of them shoot that well. Time took me out of the sport but I once shot every day that it didn't rain.I never achieved that ability although I have shot squirrels,rabbits,geese, hogs and deer.The longest shot on a deer was 80 yards and I missed it by a hair.I wish I had never done it. At that yardage the deer could have made a step and the arrow might have caused the animal to suffer.

@@mattedwards4533 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9hkxqMNrOZU.html found the video. Just insane.

Thanks, I’ll check that out!

This one is 63# at 28.5 inches

This one is a little over 60lbs at 28.5”.

Traditional Indian archers shoot at 900 to 1000 yards. Up to 1000 years ago. With 5 to 6 feet long bow