Dave is the real deal! I have witnessed this first hand as well as had the opportunity to train with him several times both at his place in Kentucky as well as my place out in here California. He is an awesome bowyer, archer and instructor. Most may not know but Dave is a great Martial Artist as well and has mentored me on how to integrate my martial arts training with several styles of archery including the Comanche style.
Everybody is doing the Lars Andersen method now. That's what this is. He can get four arrows in the air before the first one hits the target and hit the target with each one. Lars is a legend.
I have long appreciated Lars for helping bringing back the true ancient styles of archery, but he hasn't given much instruction on how to do it. As someone who lives close to Comanche Peak, I really appreciate this video for learning the Comanche style that was well-known - and feared - in this part of Texas. Subscribed!
My grandad is Comanche/Mexican. He always told me about this style which makes sense because he was a badass bow hunter as well as horse rider. Not to mention a Vietnam war vet. Hes the reason the warrior spirit lives on in me and my little bro. I showed him this video and he watched it several times already. I will pass this way down to my son and daughters. Thanks for your videos. They are awesome and Ive been practicing with my son
As a short man 20%pueblo genetics started in grade school with a lemon wood bow and snap shooting as you are doing I'm 67 now and still miss that little bow. Our school system way back taught archery English style they didn't like my snap shooting .
I've been shooting a cheap longbow for about a month. It's so fun. I've been wanting to try speed shooting.. This is the best tutorial i've found so far. I've got a turkish short bow & some open knocks on the way. Thanks man!
Holy smokes! This is one of the most eye opening videos I have ever seen. I wasn’t close to understanding the capabilities and lethality of Comanche warriors until I saw this segment. I can’t wait to get out and try to emulate their techniques.
Can't wait for part 2, and also if you had a video for making the comanche bow specifically that would be awesome. Great work, great tutorial. This helped me a lot even with some principles in other styles of shooting. :)
Great stuff Dave! Thanks for the detailed drills. Been shooting a plains bow and was not sure on the specific technique. The instinctual shooting style is a blast.
I have been looking forward to this video since the first video on Comanche archery came out. Can’t wait to get started! Thanks Dave! I am sure I got a bow or two that will work for this style
This is good stuff...stuff I already am well aware of but for those who haven't been doing archery for 30 years this is one of the most informative instructional videos if not the most , so take it from an old hand in archery this guy's information is absolutely correct, accurate and super valuable if you are after learning a way of archery evolved for combat and killing other humans and being able to quickly take advantage of hard to reach food resources so that you may survive in practically any environment from desert to grasslands or forests and jungle or the fricken arctic circle. This is the good stuff folks . High praises and respect to you David great work
Don't hate on the fiberglass man, I've taken many deer and squirrel with my old ben pearson long bow lol. My great uncle gave it to me when I was 12. It's about 30-35lb @28" but it's my favorite one. But your kit looks hella cool!
Thanks for this Dave. It is very useful to me, not only on a new way to have some fun, but as a writer of westerns that often feature Comanches, it is fantastic research material for me. Looking forward to the next one.
Im 77 years old and have been using that style of instinctive shooting for carp fishing all my life, because most of the time you don't have time to aim. Also, if the carp is moving, you cant shoot where the fish is or you'll miss or hit it in the tail. If the fish is moving you have to shoot where the fish is going to be! Same with any moving target! Shoot where it's going to be! I like your video! Keep up the good work!
I 'm just starting archery , this video is very good, adds fun to shooting instead of the typical form of shooting I have been seen. Than-you I enjoyed it.
I have always full long drawn for 60 years but since an auto accident permanently injured my shoulder I can’t do it any more but I have a short horse bow I made 35 years ago that will allow me to start shooting with the short draw. Thank you for the alternative method I can use!
This is a great presentation. I'm 85 and grew up in Comanche and Kiowa country, where many of us little boys were awed by cowboy skills and Comanche and Kiowa skills. I'm an archer and prefer the short Comanche bow.
Just found your channel! Good stuff. Started to make bow staves and thinkin Comanche is going to be the first one made. Learning flint knapping as well. Something tells me we may need to be proficient in the old ways sooner than later brother and sisters. Thank you for the wealth of knowledge 🙏✌️♥️🌍🇺🇲 ** I made this comment with about 4min left in the video. Great minds think alike i suppose 😂
Awesome video Brother! I can't say enough about it! Thank you for laying it out easy to understand and follow along! Makes me wanna pick up my bow and throw some arrows!
figured out drill #2 by myself and it worked quite well after some practice. BUT: I ended up destroying the fletching of my arrows :) AND: my max was three arrows in one hand.
The knock is a great idea. I’m hoping to attempt to make a short bow so now going to watch your vid on how to, fantastic content here in uk this sort of archery is hard to come by unless I’m not looking hard enough? Thank you for your knowledge.
is part 2 coming? I would love to see that for sure, getting my first bow in a couple of weeks, it is a modern recurve tho, so these techniques will be more challenging for sure because of the size of the handles
I got in BIIIG trouble when the wife found a few holes in the couch and a pillow a while ago 😂. Thank you for sharing with us . I'm getting back into shooting . I haven't had a bow for 4 years.I'm waiting on my bow to get here in a few days. I got a little mongolian 50# kit to start out . I'm soooo excited
Hey thanks for your video and taking the time to explain things in a easy practical way not everybody is a teacher you probably realize that by now - hey I enjoyed the video because I started shooting recurve bow in the 1960s we ate deer meat and potatoes for the next 70 years:-) I also learn to make some b o w s myself because I live in the forest most of the time anyways I'm not a professional but I got some pretty cool bows and some of them are short like yours I make my own string. I killed a lot of deer because I eat meat:-) unfortunately I'm not very steady standing up anymore I broke my back on a motorcycle and had a spinal cord injury in 95 the Lord help me walk again! I went back to painting Barns and houses in metal roofs for a living, it's been a hard g o:-) ..I also brain tan some hides do some blacksmith work. Built log cabin. I think you understand now who I am ,I'm a mountain man
Dave this is a superb absolutely superb presentation and we will share it around. When we were little boys 5-8 years old and fashioning our own little stick bows from maple branches & boxwood arrows with hen feathers crudely tied on . . . . and no one to show us how to shoot, this same basic technique was what we did back then. This is most likely the most natural way as it gets, a few of us still do it but most got swayed into more formal archery techniques along the way. As you so succinctly point out, IT WORKS :) and is fun! We are curious why you cut out the indoors scene video clip after your wife asked you “What are you doing???” We would have loved to see you talk your way out of THAT one lol. Thanks again for an awesome great job and by the way GREAT RUNNING SHOOTING!
Thank you very much! Yes this is very natural way and I also did pinch draw as a child then for some reason gravitated away from it. My wife was not too happy with my choice of target haha! But this is not the first time my weird hobbys have made her angry. And I would bet it wont be the last
Have always picked my arrows by the nock it's so much easier to control and to put on string. I believe this was the way Howard Hill wanted people to handle the arrows by the nock.
Have watched many of Lars Anderson’s archery shooting, however found this much more informative and instructional, I’ll be sure to try this next time I’m out in the woods in Devon England thanks.
Love watching these ancient styles. Keep making the content! Just starting out with archery and teaching the kids so these type of video are an eye opener
Fred Walker owner of Kawartha Traditional Archery Center Ontario Canada, Excellent Dave (assume your name) interesting well put together. Love the natural approach and subject matter. Only wish I was a little younger 77 now. Trad with long bow and recurve is my background for many years. Always attracted to the North American Indian culture. Great to see promotion and deeper understanding and respect for this way. Thank you for this. Always looking for ways that are adaptable to modern approaches. Great job, Good for you. Please keep it up.
Thanks for your videos.just subscibed.i just bought a bow.and am interested in this type of archery. I hope your putting out more videos.for now i can watch the videos you put out
Just started shooting Comanche style with three arrows in my bow hand and in a few weeks can get off four shots in 8 seconds. Need a traditional bow to be faster. Mine is a recurve but has an arrow rest that gets in the way when I reload. Awesome video.
Something I've also found is that if you're using old $6 training arrows, you don't necessarily even need a nock if they've broken off. I can fire decently well this style in such scenarios, but of course it's not the desired option.
Thank you for the information, very interesting and informative, would like to know more. Assuming I would like to get more into this hobby/skill, where and how could I acquire an all purpose native american bow? Also, not to be a contrary, the Comanche were special and fearsome but the Apache and Yaqui tribes fought Comanche and Kiowa warriors for hundreds of years and did very well. Also, Eastern nations such as the Iroquois nations that chased the Souix and Chayanee out of the East! But honestly the greatest Indian, Indigenous warriors nations were the Aztec Empire! People seem to conveniently forget the the Aztec, Mayan and Toltec nations were and are Native Americans! Mexico, Canada, the United States as well as the Caribbean all belong to and are part of North America.
You are welcome and thank you so much! I make all kinds of bows and have been for many years. Yes you are correct about other warrior tribes/nations/empires my ancestry is linked to Aztecs, Maya and Inca empire!
After watching this... subbed! I've been looking for someone to better explain the fast shooting. Also keep up the good work man!! Seriously! I think I might try my hand at making a bow this summer.
9:55 "It's time to go outside" lol i thought you were going to shoot at the chickens, lol. Great videos and awesome tips, by far the most clear about how to knock the arrows and the drills.
@@MeadLongbows Awesome video man, loved the super clear explanation of the arrow nocks and the "preloading" in the hand. The drills too, really informative and clear.
Very impressive! Love that bow. Dave if you don't mind could you tell me a little about that bow? Also if you could share a pic of the bow unbraced I would appreciate.
Awesome video. Great explanation. I seen Lars Anderson once holding arrows in the bow hand like you showed. Believe it or not it was a quick part of the video that I froze and noticed how they went between the fingers.sooo, been shooting like this since I seen that video.and its fast! As you demonstrated. Something I did was change how I make my nocks. I flare them so they are wide, but tapered from top to bottom. So when you grab the nock it kind of automatically twists to the proper possition to place on the string.i use a 3 finger draw like eskimo style.if you were using a pinch type grip nocks like these wouldnt work for that. Theyd twist the wrong way to place on the string. I also decided on a hip quiver. I have plains style quivers/bowcases but I dont own a horse and to be honest a hip quiver would work on a horse if need be.anyhow it's always set perfect for grabbing 1 to 12 arrows as quickly as I need to. As for fletching I've always made a 2 fletch simular to what eskimo or catawba used. Theres no cock feather and no wrong way of nocking it on the string. This ads to speed with less fumbling. Looking forward to that second video.
1:30 - 1:50 That's what I've been working on today, especially since my fingers are very bony which sometimes makes the pre-loading method tough with a strong bow. Yesterday I was looking at the pictures shown in yours and Lars' video(s) that display the way Comanches held the arrows and noticed a bunch of them held them a ways up the shafts, and that sure got me curious given the short draw and such. This time, with practice, been reaching above/over the bowstring---like the pre-loading method---and grabbing it with the pinch grip right back onto the string, having peeled it from the grip like at 1:34 . Still got some practice but yeah feels interesting. So in this case, been "meeting the middle" so to say, between the pre-loading way of grabbing-and-nocking the arrows and having them held right in the bow hand. With a lower brace height and having the held just a little further up the shafts I've noticed its easy enough to grab right from there. Well, for now anyways. Still gotta experiment 👍👍👍🏹 But yeah got some awesome material dude.
@@MeadLongbows idk if you've tried it that specific way peeling from the grip with the finger and thumb above the string---maybe you have---but yeah that's one I'm working on with low brace height since the "stuff it onto the string" can be slippery at times
Really love the content thank you so much for all the great information. I recently made an atlatl I wondered if you mess with those at all? Keep the videos coming man love it
Wish I'd known that bamboo bow was designed for a short draw style. I think I pulled it a little too far and the back splintered off. A shame but now I can work towards getting (or making) an Osage short bow.
Depends on what type of bamboo and how you tiller it. The bow can be short or long draw. I make bamboo bows that are able to draw up to 32 inches can even be further but performance diminishes in returns past 30
I love watching your lesson videos. Very good. Have you ever tried using knockless arrows? In place of the knock you wrap and glue a soft leather around the shaft with a short protrubance, maybe 3/8 of an inch, from the butt of the arrow. Taper the edge of the leather down onto the shaft for mechanical and aerodynamics. You could wrap that with sinew on the shaft section as well.
