ORIGINAL: Arthur P
Take a cold shower, Okie. She's cute, butis alsoa diehard vegetarian. [8D]
Somebody forgot to tell them that blanks for old time arrow shafts were either shoots or splits that followed the grain from tip to tip. Modern wood shafts are mostly made from sawn blanks that don't necessarily follow the wood's grain. That's one big reason they couldn't get an end to end split.
Not to mention they were shooting from too close. The arrows didn't have time to stabilize out of paradox before hitting the target shaft, so the tip was always hitting crooked.
Another reason was they didn't have Robin Hood or Howard Hill doing the shooting.
Exactly what I was thinking. I saw the show a while back. I went to the basement and hand selected 28 shafts that have perfectly straight grain. One day I will give it a shot. The grain has to be straight in order to work.