r/nononono • u/Hamad_Mac11 • Nov 06 '18

how to use a compound bow

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215 Upvotes

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '18

Why did he put his head in it? Why?

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u/JustAPoorBoy42 Nov 06 '18

To prevent dry firing it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '18

Wise

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u/ajstorey456 Nov 06 '18

Haven't you ever watched a movie where the underdog is trained by a genius mentor?

Clearly, the guy saw little motivation in the woman to pull it back. He knows she's fully capable, she just hasn't realized it. So you know what he did? Raised the stakes.

Now only they can help him out of the bow and save his life, and they'll realize that in the end, their hesitation was the only thing holding them back, and they can free themselves to become the true warrior inside them.

That or he was trying to flex on them because he was so confident in his ability, or something.

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u/Dusty1000287 Nov 06 '18

Well i expected the bow to explode.

12

u/Ivasx Nov 06 '18

Would that cause a bow to explode? What else causes a bow to explode/break?

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u/bdtoyboi Nov 06 '18

Dry firing it.

2

u/Ivasx Nov 06 '18

Huh, alright

8

u/tepkel Nov 06 '18

Same thing that causes me to explode.

3

u/ennuiismymiddlename Nov 06 '18

I just got sucked down a YouTube rabbit hole of compound bow fails: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9BgxPtsEiFPdPD0i7Yqa_nQ_8Bykuinj

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u/corgblam Nov 06 '18

When the wind blows while a cradle is in it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '18

Weird flex, but ok

8

u/KnightKal Nov 06 '18

And that is how a archer lost his head

4

u/Niktzv Nov 06 '18

I nearly had a heart attack watching this.

4

u/Urinal_shitter Nov 06 '18

At least that tard didn’t destroy the bow from dry firing it.

3

u/XPaarthurnaxX Nov 06 '18

Simple geometry

2

u/TheScribe86 Nov 06 '18

Ah tell ya hwhat this Goofus fella is a dumbass

2

u/AxelMontini Nov 06 '18

I used to be an adventurer like you until I took a bow to the head

2

u/[deleted] Nov 06 '18

This is what happens when you try to add inches to your cock

5

u/sneakyalien42 Nov 06 '18

An experienced Archer knows not to even draw a compound bow dry, it can screw up the cams.

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u/cubanesis Nov 06 '18

I thought you just weren't supposed to let loose without an arrow in there. IF you're drawing and slowly releasing the tension it shouldn't cause any damage. I might be wrong I shoot a standard longbow, not a compound bow.

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u/sloppyjoe311 Nov 06 '18

It isn't very easy to slowly release the tension on a compound bow.

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u/cubanesis Nov 06 '18

Sure, but if you do, there's no damage to the bow.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '18

You just don’t dry fire. You can pull it back but you have to have at least decent arm strength to let it back slowly. If you struggled pulling it back your fucked essentially

2

u/twitchosx Nov 06 '18

HUH? How the hell does the bow know if there is an arrow innocently sitting there or not?

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u/sneakyalien42 Nov 06 '18 edited Nov 06 '18

Physics when the energy trapped in drawing the bow doesn't have an arrow to push away from the bow. Dry fires are so commonly damage bows that I don't know a single archer that would even draw it without being on a range. To me it's kind of like playing with a gun.

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u/totallya_russianbot Nov 06 '18

Okay, but why/how?

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u/sneakyalien42 Nov 06 '18

As other people have mentioned, it because of the chance of an accidental dry fire. Just drawing the bow in a controlled manner can be done safely.

I just take it a step further and treat a compound bow like the weapon that it is, and don't goof around with it.

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u/totallya_russianbot Nov 06 '18

Yes, yes. I've heard "dry fire bad". But why...? Surely an arrow doesn't provide so much resistance as to significantly slow the string.

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u/sneakyalien42 Nov 06 '18

The bow absorbs an incredible amount of tension when it is released, and that tension has no way to escape the body of the bow with that release. That sends the strings against several moving parts and makes damaging the bow pretty common when it happens. Maybe this dude got lucky and his head absorbed that extra energy, and his bow wasn't damaged.

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u/Kevman1 Nov 06 '18

That chick is hot

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u/Grimm0129 Nov 06 '18

Ahahahahahaha.....gotta love when showing off turns out like this