653 meters!
Mónus József here is a multiple record-holder in Hungarian traditional long-distance archery. In an archery contest in inner Mongolia, he made a successful 653m shot (nearly half a mile) with his home-made bow.
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Reblogged this on 323 Archery Shoot and commented:
Good LORD! As bad as my vision has been getting, I’m not sure I could SEE a target that far away with the 6x lense in my CBE. (The clarifier drops the magnification to 4x…)
Agreed! That is a crazy long shot.
That’s impressive, very impressive.
There’s a story about how when Chinggis Xaan was selecting his generals he had them shoot at target from what worked out to half a mile away, and choose those who came closest. I never really was sure how accurate that was, but this makes it seem pretty possible!