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Um...did you listen to the narration? He did not ignore everything anyone knows about archery, he actually researched how those who used it for fighting did it, and it turned out to be completely different from how compound bow using, stationary, no time limit target shooters shoot. This is not a 'new' style, it's super old school.
It's possible it's faked, yes, but everything he said made sense to me, and it sure LOOKED like he was shooting for real, just differently from how we've seen it done before.

I think it's so cool this guy still uses a real bow rather than the high tech compound bows that take all sexiness out of it.

I think that "Lazurs" or GPS would be, by definition, not human powered. Unless maybe he has a little crank on there or something.

I haven't used a bow since I was a little kid but the thing that that always weirded me out was the string-puller thingy. I'm not saying that this guy is untalented because he uses tech. I actually think all that tech is pretty freaking ninja. I just think it ruins that romantic image I had as a kid of being able to hit anything with nothing but a bow and an arrow. Shit, even back then I was using a compound bow.

Really, I guess I was just trying to say that it's still a bow despite all the tech because the guy is still doing all the physical work.

Wait, I already said that.

Oh, and I see:
A level, string pull, arm-guard, stabilizer, arc-string suppressor, axle dampeners and a split-yoke cable. Not to mention all the elements that make it a modern, compound bow.

Two problems with that morality:

1. Ritual is relevant.

If you kill only one animal, why does it matter if the lethal wound is from an arrow or a bullet? Does your argument stand if the weapons are a 17th century musket versus a compound bow? How about a knife coated with fast-acting neurotoxin? Blow darts? Hand to hand, but you are wearing a high-tech exoskeleton?

2. Omniscient is required.

Imagine it is instead a hermit who purchases guns and poaches the lion, one who has never seen the "endangered species" list. How are they to know the population of lions, or the population of lions worldwide, unless they have omniscience?

Or, if you leave on Friday for a week-long deer hunting trip, and after you leave every deer worldwide falls ill from a worldwide-virus except the ones in your geographical location. That species is now endangered yet you would have to be omniscient to realize what you were doing was now morally wrong.

Yes, killing lions may be, or should be, socially wrong; but you aren't talking about socially wrong you are talking about morally wrong because you said "they deserve to die" not "they deserve to be socially ostracized."

>> ^Farhad2000:
Look if you go hunting a over populated species with a bow knife and a bow and arrow I get it. I might not agree with it but I get it.
But when you are 'hunting' with a rifle, a species that is protected, for some kind of stupid kick then you totally deserve to be mauled by the animal.

>> ^dag:
That was so cool - I love how it came up and sucked on the arrow


That might not have been an arrow, the bow didn't look loaded to me though the vid isn't clear enough to be sure. That could be the center stabilizer though I can see how it could look like an arrow. Basic design of the compound bow can be seen here, though the illustration has a very large one. Some are more understated.

http://www.archery.metu.edu.tr/siteen/compdbow.html

Very cool clip though. I'm glad he didn't shoot it.

I understand sustenance hunting and/or population control but this is just going a tad overboard. It's already bad enough that you can scope an unknowing animal from nearly a mile away on the ground. Where's the thrill of the hunt? Be a man and use something propelled by your own leverage like a compound bow, at the very least. Give these wild animals the fighting chance and respect they deserve.

Howard Hill will always be the greatest archer for me. He didn't need no fancy compound bow for his shots.

...Now she's graduated to compound bows, and has a guide business taking gentlemen out and poppin' elk, whilst contortin', all for a pretty penny! Hasselhoff set her up!!
Seriously though, anyone got this chicks phone number-WWWOOOF! My kinna' woman!
she's probly' married to a Ghurka or a Navy Seal!