Comments on: Episode 36: Killer Tissue Box

By: Colin

Colin — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:06:45 +0000

I have to agree with Tom. I have seen this done in person. While I have never done it it has been done. Also I think that the mythbusters succeeded in proving this myth to be true when they had a professional trick archer perform the trick. Sometimes I feel the Mythbuster team is overly confident in themselves and fail to perform sufficient background research. This leads to them testing and incorrectly deciding something is true or not because they could not replicate it.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:51:05 +0000

DUH! As they noted, heavier objects can be dangerous. So we could debunk the bowling ball by using a Nerf one…

By: Tom Wegener

Tom Wegener — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 21:00:03 +0000

I have been watching your show for many years now, and the fact that while your people might be able to fire a rifle or pistol, they know next to nothing about archery. Just like your screw up with saying that Carlos Hathcock did not shoot through a scope because YOU couldn’t do it on a few tries. Splitting an arrow is NOT easy, and your three idiots not being able to do it on command, or going to a stupid ren fair to find archers shows how little you people really know about anything concerning shooting. Try finding a real archer. Run up and see someone like Glen StCharles, a man who knew Howard Hill. And yes Howard DID to the shot in the original movie. Read Craig Ekin’s biography on Howard Hill.
My advice to your three morons is to NOT let they do anything with the shooting sports because they have no idea what is possible and or probable.

By: Brian Buchanan

Brian Buchanan — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:10:39 +0000

What has not been taken into consideration is the fact that during the time Robin Hood was supposed to have lived, arrows were self nocked, meaning the nock was cut into the arrow shaft and sinew was tied around the shaft. This was done to not only secure the fletching (feathers) but to prevent the nock from expanding down the shaft. Also, archers during that time used sharpened steel broadheads for hunting as well as combat, along with longbows that had an average draw weight of 75# or more.

By: MJ

MJ — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 06:56:03 +0000

I managed to stick an arrow into another one. I am shooting a Hoyt Cybertech at 70# and this was done at 30 yards.

By: Cole Wingard

Cole Wingard — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:22:51 +0000

I am a archer and I have Robin Hooded an arrow.

By: Vitomir

Vitomir — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:55:59 +0000

Hello from Croatia.I’m archer and since I wached episod splitting an arrow I also tried but I just crashed nock of the arrow.

By: Harrison

Harrison — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:08:19 +0000

ihave to do this for a project at my school.

By: Mick

Mick — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:36:15 +0000

Archey practice was compulsory on Sundays for all males in medieval England and arrows had to be made in huge quantities to accomodate this. By using “riven” wood (split along the grain), large amounts could made from any seasoned straight grained wood without the need to find a million perfect saplings. Riven wood was also much more likely to survive the huge stresses of being fired from a longbow drawing between 90 and 120 pounds and then hitting French armour.

By: Danny Carlton

Danny Carlton — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:50:57 +0000

Modern, wooden arrows are made with a router. There were no routers in Robin Hood’s days. Arrows were made from green saplings or branches that were already straight. That means the grain would have been straight down the middle of the arrow. The myth wasn’t busted, because they never tested an authentic 14th century arrow, with an expert marksman.