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They are trying to prove whether it is possible to robin hood an arrow. They first tried doing it themselves and then with the help of " professional archers." Finally they built a machine (kinda like a hooter shooter) attempting to prove the robin hood myth.

They should have just called me if they wanted a robin hood. Well, at least before my current bout of target panic.:([8D]

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All they have to do is come here and ask people to post picks of their robin hoods!! LOL

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Yea I was watching that, too. They didnt look like they had much archery experience[&:]

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Yeah you're right but I still give them mad props for some of the stuff they put to the test.:D

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is it that out of this world to wonder if indeed IT IS possible?[&:]

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I guess so. They're also trying to prove if a tissue box could be fatal in vehicle accident.:eek: Needless to say,

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What kind of bows were they trying with?

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Bowtech[:-]

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They were trying it with WOODEN arrows,were they not?;) NOT,hollow shafts.

Atleast the last time this came up,that was what they were trying.

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Wood might be diff. Any one on here ever do it with wood?

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Yep. I also just learned they were trying to prove it possible to split one arrow from nock to tip. So they realize robinhooding one is possible just unsure if it would split from nock to tip.

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Hate to pop the bubble and forgive me if I am mistaken but I am almost 100% sure they were trying to prove weather or not an arrow with a broadhead could robin hood an arrowand arrow and split it all the way down. They never said it was impossible to get a robin hood that would be stupid because look at all the folks here who have done it With Field tips not broadheads. But lets see someone prove the myth busters wrong and split a shaft from nock to tip with a broadhead then I will call the myth busters idiots.

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AAA HAAA!!! Another piece to the puzzle!!!!:D

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Yep see my above post.:)

Wonder why my post time and edit time is an hour off when it should have been a minute off???? Weird.

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I must have been in the middle of typing when you posted again ducsauce.

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ok now I need to know. Did they do it? It's not fair to post this and leave me hanging. How am I supposed to sleep tonight not knowing?

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They said they were tying to do on purpose. how many of you have hit the ol Robin Hood on purpose? I have only done it a couple of time and I tell you I was NOT trying to split 10$ worth of arrow when I did it.

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I saw the episode but dont remember it much. But it would be impossible to robin hood a wooden arrow with a broadhead because of the spin, you would think so at least [&:]

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The reason they were using wood arrows instead of aluminum or carbon is because they were attempting to authenticate a true "robin hood" with period specific materials that were available when Robin Hood would have been alive. Robin Hood would have been using wood arrows and a long bow so that is what they were trying to duplicate.

No they did not succeed in splitting a wooden shaft with another wooden shaft. The arrows started to split the nockend but quickly followed the grain of the wood and veered off center of the shaft.

I say it is possible but everything would have to be perfect. One of those one-in-a-million things. The grain of the first shaft would have to run perfectly straight down the shaft and then the second arrows broadhead would have to enter the first shaft with the broadhead lined up perfectly with the grain of the first shaft in order to stay on track while splitting it.

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They did finally get it with a bamboo shaft.

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From what I haveread in Traditional Bowhunting Magazine, Byron Ferguson is going to attempt to prove them wrong. With his longbow and POC's.

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Of course its possible, most people do it atleast once in there life if not more.

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But with wooden shafts? Not possible IMO

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the myth was actually to see if an arrow can splint the other arrow completly down the shaft !!! not just to robin hood like we call it

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a robbin hood. pleez.. its called a waste of $10, i did 2 in 2 weeks. freaggin piss me off
from now on i will not shoot more than 2 arrows per target, i will use those 3 target targets with the 3 circles. this way the chances of that happeneing again are very slim, even though the second time i pulled a "robbin hood" it was with only one arrow shot previously. anyway mythbusters rocks!

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That's what I saw them try to do on the show . They had split shafts with their shooting machine but could not get any arrow to split from nock to tip "like Robin Hood" supposedly did . Even with the straightest grain arrows , it didn't happen . When any of you can do this , then you can call those TV guys dumb . They didn't need to be archery experts to do this ! Believe it or not , these guys are pretty intelligent !
What we refer to a Robin Hood arrow is one hollow shaft splitting another hollow shaft . Once the 2nd shaft enters the 1st it follows the hollow tubing or the path of least resistance . I had my 1st Robin Hood last summer at 20 yards . In the past two months , I have had 2 more shooting from 11 yards in the basement .

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Number one, a true robin hood is with wood shafts, just modern archers morphed it into hollow shafts. I think everyone of us here could post apict of one hollow shaft going into anotherif you have been shooting more than a year or two.. But not sure any of us could post a "robin hood" of a wood shaft being split from nock to point.

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That is one of the points (there are others) that I'm not all that sure about. These days you would either have to get some very old POC shafts, or literally have to sort through thousands of shafts these days to find some. Byron is having his source keep an eye out the some of the best that he can find. This could take a long while.

Just wondering if you discredit Howard Hill making the shot in Robinhood? Acrording to him, this was not his most difficult shot.

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???? I don't think I mentioned howard. What are you talking about?

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It wasn't meantdirectly toyou BigCountry.It was more in generalto the people who believe it can not be done. I wish people woundn't post such large pictures. This topic is tough to read![:@]
Bob

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I THINK THEY PROVED THAT THEY COULD SPLIT A WOODEN SHAFT

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Oops sorry, I would say it would be extremely difficult for me to pull off at will:D

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NO LIE the day after i seen the episde me and my neighbor were shooting and robin hooded the arrow on his first two shots. Oh ya the first 2 of the year. i am not even joking. But he dose shoot a HOYT.

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Those are such idiots,they make me want to throw something at the tv...Bob

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Speaking of Robin Hoods..I got my first today!!!oo and I bought the arrows yesterday!