Accidents with a Bow & Arrow | Medieval & Modern
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2023
- In this video, Accidents with a Bow & Arrow | Medieval & Modern, Kevin Hicks explores the accidents that have befallen both seasoned archers and enthusiasts, spanning from medieval times to the present day. Brace yourself for some perilous encounters and unexpected incidents that have occurred with the bow and arrow throughout history. Filled with unintended consequences and mishaps, this video demonstrates the dangers of the sport of archery.
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The more modern archery equipment is that much more dangerous. I literally almost died when a compound bow that was brand new exploded. Part of the limb lacerated my jugular and I nearly bled out. Luckily my neighbor was shooting with me and put his finger in the hole which literally kept me alive. After that I only shoot traditional equipment. Great video Kevin ❤ history squad.
WOW!! That's crazy, I'm glad you're okay and had a quick thinking neighbour 👍🏻
@@thehistorysquad absolutely appreciate that Kev thanks for all the great content. But yes the newer bows have that much more power and stored up energy so that much more that can definitely go wrong. Today's compounds are propelling arrows 400 plus feet per second which is absolutely insane. I'll stick to my longbow 😂
@@WolfSpiritOutdoors Absolutely, me too! I've just ordered a new one 😃
I'm stunned. Glad you weren't killed. I would never have thought that drawing a bow could lead to a fatal accident. 😮
Bows and arrows can be as hazardous as firearms. At least one doesn’t shoot oneself with a bow whilst cleaning it.
When in 6th grade archery class, I witnessed someone loose an arrow at a near 90 degrees up. There was quite a bit of yelling and screaming of “Watch out!” The arrow fell, nicking the heel of a classmate. Your story of the woman pegging her laundry jogged that memory.
I participated in college archery. My partner skipped one of his arrows over the top of the butt. It flew for another 50 yards. Stuck right in the side of a brand new Mustang. The Grover parked directly in front of a “No Parking” sign that warned of archery practice. Never saw that Mustang downrange again. Oh, for a camera!
Thanks again for a great presentation.
Cheers!
Haha, indeed 👍🏻
As a newly graduated history and museum studies in the US these videos are amazing and captivating. I aspire to be able to be a story teller like you one day.
That's very kind of you thank you & good luck 👍🏻
I think you have several decades to get there, but keep it up!
Lol enjoy your student loan payback. Everybody is a historian nowadays
I have a connection with the shooting of king William Rufus. It was my ancestor, one Purkis, a local charcoal burner, who helped load the body of the king, onto his cart, and took the king into the town of Winchester.
Wow, that's fabulous 👍🏻
I was shot with an arrow when I was 12 years old - the trouble was I shot the arrow .I shot an arrow and it had tunnelled under the grass and I was looking for it - eventually I found it .While looking I must have trod on the arrow and it had a hairline crack - I never noticed - picked it up and shot the arrow again .Part went past my hand but part went straight into my hand - it left a piece of the shaft right up inside my hand - being 12 years old that scream must have woken the dead .I still have the scar now and that was 1962 .I still have a longbow - it's not the same one though .
OUCH!! I'm forever losing arrows under the grass 👍🏻
Not quite an arrow, but in 1978, lawn darts were popular. Back then they had a sharpened point, not the blunted ends they have now. A bunch of us kids were playing with them when brothers started to argue about whose turn it was. It became very heated when one brother tried to run away with a couple of the darts. The other brother then threw a dart overhand very hard at the fleeing brother. It hit him in the back, in the left shoulder, driving it to the hilt. We thought he was going to die, it was very traumatic. He survived, but was in hospital for the whole summer.
That's an awful thing to happen.
Just awful :(
That wasn't the worst thing they did to each other. A few years later there was a similar argument over a single shot 12 gauge shotgun. In that instance, the brother who had been impaled by a lawn dart shot his brother full of birdshot. It was also non lethal. The police were never involved in any of these episodes.
Wow 😳
@@thehistorysquad A good friend and former roommate has a .22 short embedded in his sternum. As a kid,he and a friend were playing cowboys and Indians with live ammunition. He zigged when he should have zagged,and then said Ow that hurts. Anywhere but the sternum,the ending likely would have been different. Long summers days and unsupervised boys. Just about every kid I knew had lesser stories than that,but we survived our childhoods with more luck than prior planning. I still have a small burn scar from molten saltpetre ,left hand. Homemade gunpowder. Now you might ask,just what was I doing......
Well I survived my childhood.
Shared your experience , not with an arrow, but with a dart. Hit my playmate right in the head. Nothing serious (thank god) but it haunts me now for more than 50 yrs.
😩 ouch
Thanks Kevin. It hopefully will remind people that safety should always be foremost, when using anything that sends a projectile at high speed. Firearm safety, bow safety, slingshots, anything like that can kill. Cheers from Texas.
Absolutely, cheers & thanks as ever for your support 👍🏻
We are taught that we should NEVER point a weapon even in jest. The only exception being if it is at the enemy.
Yes, they will keel
@@jonpaul3868 Their prime objective is to kill.
@@jonpaul3868 🤣
The story about the lady and the laundry reminds me of a story about my father. He was a very kind but also very stern and serious father, so perhaps this is why I like to tell this story. I like to think of him as he was at this point in his life. He had gotten a pellet gun from somewhere, either he bought it or it was a gift. In any case, he had it in his room on the second floor of his parents house one day and started to use the neighbors laundry for target practice. Great fun and he could tell what he hit and where. However, when the neighbor came out to collect the bed sheets on the line and found them full of holes, there was a problem.
I know a guy who tested a K98K mauser in his garden. a recochet perforated the wife s panties on the clothes line.
Those guns are so dangerous. I was strict with my boys they would go on at me to get them (pellet gun). But the area we live in is too built up. Thank God it was just laundry your dad shot at, and there wasn't an unseen child standing there.
😂
My father did something similar when he was a kid, but with his stuffed animals! Apparently he would line them up and use them for target practice. He forgot all about this until years later, when I was little and found a pellet in one of his old toys while playing with it. 😂
The injuries described are perfect case studies of how effective arrows are. Imagine getting hit by the enemy with an arrow. So effective, so deadly.
When I was in high school, I was on the track team.... I was a thrower... a javelin thrower... we didn't use rubber tipped javelins in Oregon... they were legit throwing spears...
Well... one night at practice the sprinters finished their workout around the back side of the track ... just as we were doing full strength throws... one of the sprinters finished and not paying attention, casually started walking backwards right across the middle of the field.... this guy also happened to the be the star running back on our football team...
Not seeing him... I loosed my javelin as he began across the field... a high arching throw of about 150 feet .. about half the length of the football field.. everyone saw it going right for him... everyone that is, except him... but everyone was silent. . He turned around just in time to see it fly right over his shoulder, inches from the side of his head....
Ya that was scary.
Yikes!
Oh my! What an incredible stroke of luck it missed.
@thehistorysquad ya no kidding! That could have been the end of metal tipped javelins in Oreon! Not to mention a lifetime of therapy for me after killing classmate and friend haha... it was just as much his fault as mine tho.. he should have known better than to walk right across the middle of the javelin field. As I recall he got the brunt of the scolding.... but there definitely was some scolding..
I was reading a few journal articles about Tudor longbow archery in a spare moment at my university's library, as I was the president of the archery club there and a fairly serious period longbow archer. In an article that also included the account of the man shot while sleeping, I found a (sadly very short) summary of a coroner's report about one Henry Pert, gentleman, who managed to accidentally shoot himself through the head with his own longbow. Apparently, he was shooting with under-length arrows (as dangerous now as it was then, by the way!) and overdrew the arrow before releasing it. He managed to, by some miracle, avoid shooting himself through the wrist, but the point of the arrow lodged in the grip of the longbow instead, with the bowstring still in the nock and the full weight of the bow behind it. This was apparently interesting enough to warrant a closer inspection, so he turned the bow around for a closer look, the arrow slipped out (or broke through) at just the correct moment, and he shot himself right through the head.
Source: Gunn, Steven. “ARCHERY PRACTICE IN EARLY TUDOR ENGLAND.” Past & Present, no. 209 (2010): 53-81.
Oh my goodness, I wish I'd have known about that one. An incredible story. Wow! 👍🏻
On a more darkly amusing note, Gunn also records the case of "Thomas Curteys of Bildeston, Suffolk" whose last words were recorded as "Nowe let me se howe thou canst shott at my hatt". You can guess what happened to him.
Historical equivalent of looking down the barrel when your gun jams!
My kids are starting to get into archery. I made very clear the rules about not going to the target when people are shooting and not shooting when there are people at the target. It’s no joke.
If you think it's age appropriate, they should watch the video too. Never shoot up 👍🏻
I think every little boy who has been left unsupervised for just a minute has loosed an arrow straight up.
I know I did in a cow pasture, missed the cattle
Yea we are idiots
😂
I think mostly all little boys had an experience of some kind, a big whoops!
my first time with a real bow at an archery club I found that the bow was a bit light and that I could draw it further than the arrow length. That meant that the arrow could easily come unnocked at full draw and the field tip could hover right before my left hand. If I had been a little bit too eager to let go the arrow would have launched straight through my hand.
We were brought up with bows and arrows, so became natural to us in the country. Never had any problems
You know it’s gonna be good when he’s got the Robin Hood hat on.
😂
Even better at the end when he told of "Robin Hooding" a previously shot arrow! The black eye from walking into it wasn't awesome, I'm sure! But that 2nd shot was!
Wow, that brings back a memory from my childhood in the 1960's. I do not remember who shot the arrow but my friends and I were using our bows in a friends backyard and one got shot almost straight up. What seemed like a long time, the arrow came down and through the roof of a neighbors swimming pool enclosure. When the arrow passed through the metal roof it made such a loud sound that we all went running out of sight. We never did that again and never asked for the arrow back and thank the Lord that no one was hurt. As always, I enjoyed how you presented this video 😀
A close call indeed 👍🏻 thanks for watching Mark
Yeah never shoot unless you can see your target 🎯 Makes me think of Brandon Herrera's Darwin Award series.
@@spacewater7 Yeah, that was back at the age of ten, children do not generally take safety and consequences into consideration and we/my young group would never have asked our parents first as they would have spoiled the fun....Thankfully we and others survived those years ;-)
I read about an MI deer hunter who died of blood loss after arrow brakes upon release and rips through his arm.
Thank You for another great video "yeah" !
Oh yeah 👍
People will often forget that just because its living history, doesn't mean that the weapons used aren't still weapons that can injure or kill someone. Some of the frontiersmen I have worked with use their long rifles to hunt later in the year. And they can take down a deer without too much trouble.
Its also interesting how when a weapon is used in a sport people seem to forget that it's still dangerous. Even when they were the weapon of the day. Very nice video and did make me think of my own injuries when things haven't gone right with our muskets. (Flint can explode and it can cut, as does the touchhole flare and burn your cheek if you are too close.) Either way, good video and glad to see one with an undercurrent of a safety video.
Absolutely. I used to be a musketeer in the English Civil War Society, a couple of interesting near misses (and hits) to tell about there 👍🏻
@@thehistorysquad Make a neat video.
I wouldn't call myself anything but an amateur when it comes to archery, but the little experience I have didn't leave me any surprises in this video...
I'd like to emphasize the two things I found the most dangerous:
1) idiots on the range (be they running in front of the target, behind it, or shooting into random directions)
2) shrapnel (arrows hitting something, or someone using a short arrow on a long bow and getting the tip stuck at the bow because he overdrew)
Also, I find it quite noteworthy that sandbags protect from some quite serious firearms, but crossbows, longbows, and spear guns just don't care... They go through water and sand and impale anything in their path... Also, Kevlar doesn't offer much protection on its own either!
A great comment, thank you 👍🏻
It may not mean much coming from a single random guy, but I really love your channel, I'm studying to someday be a teacher and I can only hope to be as cool as you when teaching lol
I wish you the best, my man, but you better start sitting in the freezer if you want to be as cool as Kevin Hicks. He's cooler than polar bear toenails.
That's so nice. Good luck!😊
@@michaelhowell2326 😂😂
@@van7242 thanks 😄
Your comment means a lot, thank you & good luck in your career. Teaching is a tough one, but rewarding. I was lucky that I taught freelance, I was self employed and delivered history workshops in schools.......food for thought perhaps 👍🏻
I once tried archery, and scored a bullseye with my first shot. However, it was in my opponent’s target. In drawing back to shoot, I had inadvertently swung to one side, and failed to correct before releasing 😬
🤣 at least you were on target so to speak 👍🏻
@@thehistorysquad 😂
I'm an avid archer and oftentimes took friends out to shoot. Being from America, NONE of my friends truly took the bow seriously. Luckily no mistakes were ever made under my watch, but I've sure had to replace a lot of arrows over the years.
Anyway, awesome video as always. I'm glad you still have both eyes after that little mistake you shared with us.
This one got me thinking about my daughter and I practicing Archery in my garage. 35LB and 45LB re-curve bows with field points, what could possibly go wrong. 8 meters/25 feet. Two arrows went right through the steel lined fireproof door to my cellar/furnace room. WOW! I think of this every time Todd and others do an arrows verse armor test.
Oh my goodness, that's just it, people don't realize until a near miss or worse 👍🏻
@@thehistorysquadindeed. I've always thought it odd that in the UK we have such tight gun laws while you can go on line and with no checks buy incredibly powerful crossbows. Just as deadly at close range.
Hi Kevin,
Accident with archery...
What a wonderful theme.
We had one accident in our archery club...
It was the day of the open door.
There was a guy understanding nothing.
Finaly the Instruktion says: Hey, you just hold it in this direction, and when i say now, you let it of. OK?....OK.
He shouts NOW !!!
...AND HE LET IT OF...
(But he let it of in front and got the bow into his face...)😂😂😂Aua.
🤣 muppet 👍🏻
Hi Kevin, I really enjoy your videos. I wanted to share a story that happened about a year ago, I was sitting outside on my back deck watching my neighbors kids with a bow and arrow. As I watched I saw the younger of the two recklessly shooting the bow and nearly striking his mother. So I decided then to go into the house and get my recurve bow and went outside. I asked the mother if I could show her son how to properly shoot a bow and arrow, which she appreciated that. I had set up a target about 15 yards and demonstrated to this young lad what an arrow can do and why he shouldn't be shooting the way he did. As a side note the mother loved the bow I have.
Ah, that's nice. I hope that lad took it all on board 👍🏻
Here in the USA, at least where I live in it, bows are treated exactly the same as guns, as far as the law is concerned. You're not to shoot them within X distance of a house (without permission from the owner), over a road, etc. They were weapons of war for thousands of years, and certainly aren't toys!
And yet, how many people are killed in USA per year, by accident...?
Your first story reminds me of an incident when I was a teenager. My friend Eric was messing around with my bow and arrows as we were tenting in the woods near my hometown. My bow looked like a toy. A light blue fiber glass thing with a bright red plastic handle, but in fact it was a pretty strong recurve. And as you did in your backyard, Eric shot an arrow vertically into the sky. A little aside sat a French exchange pupil named Benoit on an air mattress. For some reason he stood up and a split second later with a loud “plopp”the down coming arrow pierced through the mattress in the exact spot where he sat just a moment before. This was a close one, but we all laughed till we fell (careless young idiots that we were). I laughed too until I realized that it was my mattress.
🤣 oh wow, that really was lucky for Benoit!
05:54 Kevin just mentions casually that the exploded bow limb gave him a concussion. Did you had to to go the hospital, what was the aftermath of it? So i imagine a bow snapping can permanently damage the archer or outright kill him.
I was okay, no hospital visit required, fortunately I was wearing a helmet, but was still slightly concussed with the force. 👍🏻
As always, an excellent video, and gives a good view into the safety concerns when using bows. A story that was told to me a while ago by a colleague was that a neighbour of his was a recurve archer, who always used a 'clicker' (for those who don't know, that is a small length of metal which lies across your arrow, and when the point passes it, the metal comes off the point and strikes a plate behind, hence the 'click', which always ensures you are in the same place each time you release the arrow). Anyhow, this lady decided to try doing a bit of practice in her home, simply drawing the arrow to the same point and then lowering it again. However, it was a good day, and her window was open....and, being used to releasing when she heard the 'click', she drew the bow, the arrow came back, the clicker clicked...and she automatically loosed her arrow! The arrow shot through the open window, straight across the road and embedded itself in the front door directly across from her! Luckily there was no-one in the way, and she of course had some explaining to do, but someone could have been easily killed. Scary stuff indeed.
Goodness me, that was an incredibly close call 😳
@@thehistorysquad Certainly was, Kevin, The lady in question was exceptionally lucky that no-one got injured or even killed. Sometimes I think it can also be a misconception as to the power of a bow, especially with regard to a longbow. When I was filmed using mine a few years ago for the Alnwick Castle advert, one of the production team wanted to kneel down in front of me with a camera to get an 'action' shot whilst I loosed an arrow. The team were surprised when I said 'no way' to that , and I had to explain that if the shot went wrong in any way (ie, arrow broke etc) the bloke might well be seriously injured. They opted for using a remotely operated camera instead, (which did indeed give an excellent shot) but I will never forget the 'ohhhh' sound of all the production crew as the arrow hit home in the target. Don't think they fully appreciated what a bow could do until that moment, and why I was so careful over it.
@@andrewrice2376 A good call on your part 👍🏻
@@thehistorysquad Too dangerous to take chances like that -safety first!
Great video. I can relate to this as I have a small scar on my neck where an arrow missed my carotid artery by a few mm.
Oh no! You were incredibly lucky, how did it happen?
@@thehistorysquad I do LARP which uses arrows with large foam heads and about 30lb pull bows. So normally quite safe. One event some must have had a cracked arrow. As they fired it the foam head fell off turning it into a real arrow..
Felt a slap on my neck and next thing I'm holding a bloody arrow and people around me were turning white.
Luckily one of the guys taking part was an ex-battle field medic.
The hospital staff all came to look at the wound.
@@davedunn3908 Wow, how incredibly lucky you were, and to have a medic on hand too 👍🏻
This video has revealed in the comments some real flukes, stuff you simply don't even imagine could happen.
Just found this channel and im hooked. Really good work here. Appreciate the content
That's great to hear, welcome!
As always Kevin your stories are so well said you feel like your are standing there watching it happen. Just amazing.
Cheers 👍🏻
Hey Kev, great video!
I thought I'd share an archery accident I've witnessed about 7 years ago.
So, the school I was at was a part of a government summer camp program, and on one of the days there we had an archery practice.
It was with those modern plastic bows and arrows (still sharp though).
So, one of the girls in my class managed to shoot herself with an arrow.
She hit a target's metal leg, the arrow arched, bounced back in almost a straight line, and managed to leave a fairly nasty cut on her shin.
Luckily, she was ok, but after the incident, the instructor said that it was the first time he's ever heard of anyone shooting themselves with a bow.
Hope it was an entertaining story, cheers!
Gosh, that's one accident I haven't heard of before. Crazy 👍🏻
Kev has the greatest themes to cover.😊
German sergeant accidentally walked into an arrow in France 1940 .
The sound of bagpipes should have been a dead giveaway.
No that was after D-Day, Churchill's bow was broken during the defense of France
Mad jack
❤️🤍💙“We _____, we are the destroyers & will remain the destroyers. Nothing you do can ever meet our demands & needs. We will forever destroy because we want a world of our own”.-- 1921 Maurice Samuel
🤡 We are told Germans wanted to rule over us as the master race by a tribe that lords over us as “The Chosen”....
Something to ponder when looking around the globe
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KEVIN HICKS IS THE MAN!!!! WE LOVE YOU KEV!
Yay! Cheers Jules 👍🏻
Fantastic video as always Kevin. You are such a brilliant story teller. Have ever thought about writing a book on your experiences, i would buy it.
As it so happens ......
Fascinating stuff! I imagine there have been thousands of arrow injuries--that didn't lead to a death--never having been reported. When you consider how long and widespread the use of bow and arrow have been, it's inevitable.
I’ve just recently found your channel and I’m astonished how captivating and in depth all of your videos are, being from the US we hadn’t received much of any European history and now I can’t stop watching. I love all the outfits , props and funny jokes, I’m always looking forward to the next upload. keep up the amazing work
Wow, thank you! That's very kind 👍🏻
I had something similiar with a photo journalist in the late 80's at a reenactment event in Noerdlingen/Germany - 30 years War -, but with a cannon.
That guy wanted to take a picture when the cannon fired, but from the front, we told him not to since it's extremely dangerous even without a ball in the barrel, so we moved the cannon a few times and that idiot moved with us.
Eventually, fed up mightily with that idiot, I put the lintstock to the touch-hole.
He got his "picture" and was thrown by the blast right into the mud along with a nice concussion.
That taught him a lesson he didn't forget in a jiffy, and he bought us later some beers as an appology.
Haha, a great story, thanks for sharing. Never ceases to amaze me the idiocy of some people 👍🏻
@@thehistorysquad - But just imagine what would be happening in this day and age?
They would most likely sue you and the Government would ban all such events because of morons that are hell bend on a Darwin Award.
Great video Kevin! That 20 minutes went by like it was two. Nearly every video you do regardless of length leaves me wanting more. You have an amazing gift as a story teller my brother.
Awesome, thank you Paul!
Loved your stories. Rough and scary but interesting!
Man... When we were kids one of our friends had a cheap fiberglass longbow. We would shoot arrows straight up and see who could get closest to the arrow when it came down.... Now I get chills thinking about that.
I bet!!
I still remember when I was about to fire my bow when the arrow slipped from the arrow rest right as I let loose and my bow shattered. The limb came round and broke my glasses, but luckily, it didn't actually hit me.
A close call 👍🏻
Great video Kevin, like always. I noticed that "Robin Hood" cap. It made me think. Are those hats historically accurate or just hollywood?
They are accurate as it happens, and interestingly the commoners often wore them back to front as well, just like kids do with baseball caps today. 👍🏻
Thanks for answering. That is very interesting with the backwards cap. I still find the backwards cap annoying though. Hahaha
@@ismaelhernandez6866 Me too 👍🏻
I should know by now to not try to eat and watch Mr. Hicks. I get so absorbed by the tales that he weaves that, before I even know it, my ice cream has melted, my dinner has gone cold, or my sandwich has dried out.
Please never stop, good Sir.
🤣 Thanks
I nearly spat my coffee out when you said the king kept his eye on the stag and then the picture comes up and he's still got one eye on something 😂
It’s interesting getting the “gun safety talk” from the other side of the pond, and it is certainly a talk that can’t be had too frequently.
It’s unfortunate too many people don’t learn to respect tools which can cause serious injury or death until it is too late.
~ 7:12 for the injury, what an ironically fitting transport to hospital! Basically "Right boys, strap him to the cart and let's get on with it!" 🤣 I know Dr's do it often for the training/experience in these rare cases but we all know all the crew got called down for the reason of "come look at this! you'll probably never see it again!" (medieval dressed arrow casualty)
A guy in my area tried to end their life with a crossbow and ended up missing and shooting himself in the spine, paralyzing himself for life. Brutal.
Glad to see another archery video!
Hope you enjoy it!
Love it. Thank you, Kevin!
When I was a young lad of about 11 or 12 years old, I got my first longbow. We were visiting a relative who had acres of land, so I took my bow out and began shooting at leaves and sticks that I saw. I got bored with this, so I began shooting my bow straight up into the air and watching the arrows land on the ground around 100 yards away or so. It took a while to walk out and retrieve them, so I thought I could speed up the process by running toward them as they landed. It was good fun and being young I guess burned off some extra energy as well. Anyway, I lost sight of this one arrow as I ran into the field. I stopped around where it should have landed when the arrow swished by my head and thudded into the ground at my feet. I stopped doing that! I often thought about how they would have explained how I had committed suicide with a bow and arrow. It still gives me the chills now.
Recently, I was practicing with my recurve hunting bow in my backyard. I was shooting at a large bail of hay around 16 yards away. the hay bail was leaning against a large sloping hill, so I thought it was in a safe spot to practice. One of my arrows glanced off of the target and went straight up into the air. I marveled at how high the arrow went until it landed squarely in my neighbor's backyard where their kids sometimes play. I freaked out and had to climb that hill quickly to get the arrow. Luckily, they had moved away which I did not know at the time. I moved my target to flatter ground and in a safer direction. The last thing I want is to hurt someone or have them call the police on me. You are totally right about shooting a bow, accidents do happen all the time. People think bow shooting is safe compared to firearms, but it can be just as deadly. I guess that is why they have used them for thousands of years for hunting and warfare. Great video. I enjoyed it very much.
A great comment and sobering lesson there thanks!
Awesome video as usual, thanks Kevin!
Great as always Kevin.
I only found your channels recently, you are very educational in your videos cant wait for the next one!
I always enjoy your "little videos"!
ABSOLUTELY ENTERTAINING!! Love the research you do and especially the way you present! Thanks 👍
Great video . Thank you .
Great stuff!!
Thanks again Kevin 👍great content!
The arrow coming back down reminded me of a story from my local area, a couple of dudes were plinking with a rifle, just messing about, firing at some trash, etc. when for some reason, they decided to fire the gun upwards, at an angle, and of course, the bullet came back down, a good distance away (I don't remember the exact distance, but it's the great plains, houses are separated by a ton of fields) and a man was re-shingling his roof, and the bullet went straight through his skull, killing him instantly. The local PD issued a statement for any information and the guys were so distraught they turned themselves in, a sad story, and a reminder to always know where you're shooting
A tragic incident but sadly not that uncommon, esp. in the Middle East 👍🏻
Love your show!!😊
Great stories! Thanks so much!
Excellent video, thank you so much for the information and education…
Love your channel…
Excellent as always Kevin thanks. I'm surprised you didn't mention King Harold's last words at Hastings though, "watch that bugger with the bow and arrow or he'll have someone's eye out"
I treat my bow much like i treat my firearms. Nothing happens until it's totally safe to do so and target is clear from living things.
Weird to hear about so many people being near targets and even leaning over them.
Kevin, youre so good at telling stories
Love listening to kevins stories
That was so entertaining and educational, KEVIN HICKS YOU ARE A LEGEND
Another interesting video thank you!
Mr Hicks Im thankful for all the videos you made.
I really enjoy your videos keep up the great work
Thanks Kevin. Tales well told
Wow what an amazing bunch of stories!!!!
Great video as always!!! ❤ love the mention of 'courting couples' 😂
Absolutely love your videos, hoping you do a video about your own life stories soon! :)
Thank you Kevin once again for a superb video !!! I never want them to end 😊
Bless you, thanks!
Yippee another good day when you post . Thanks Kevin and co 🙏
Our pleasure!
Love your videos Sir! The best!
I appreciate that!
Just came across a short. Subbed! Great videos! I always wondered about things like this. How people did things in old times.
I used to know a guy who would take his work truck down to the artillery range to sleep because no one ever went down there and it was a good hiding place. One day he was interrupted by howitzer rounds coming down. I guess he hadn’t predicted the firing times like he thought lol
Good heavens 😳
@@thehistorysquad I also heard rumors they would do this during long nights of snow removal during the winters. No chance of firing then, but it was apparently still a good place to hide because no one ever ventured down there. I guess there’s no limit to what people will do to get some rest! Cheers
Excellent ! Thanks
Back around 1977 or 76 or so my buddy and I were shooting his bow and arrow high into the air using our feet and laying on the ground. The arrow would go out of sight for a while. Then.... it headed for the neighbors pool which had a soft bottom and penetrated it. We could see it at the bottom over the fence. That was our last time shooting the bow and arrow like that. Greetings from Arizona.
Wow, you’re lucky it was only the pool you hit 😜
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We were very lucky indeed. I did something equally as stupid with a firearm if you want to hear it. Incredibly dumb of me.
Fantastic! I just started with the SCA about a year ago, and I am in the target archery. And yes, we have to be very careful-but I learned to shoot guns when I was eight, and passed the Illinois firearms test when I was 9, shot a 20 gauge shotgun when I was 10- at clay pigeons. All without accident. And I am a civil war re-enactor, carrying a 58 caliber musket, and 44 caliber pistol (I serve Navy, we're armed to the teeth) and I always am vigilant on the battlefield, double-checking my safety, do I have the right elevation, am I far enough away, it all matters. Twenty-six years of experience helps, but is no guarantee. Same with shooting arrows. Take the time for safety. It matters. And yes, people do stupid things on the field, I heard of one guy that went out in front of the cannon which were loaded and ready to fire on the re-enactment field. At the time of the war, General Ewell was having to explain to an excited teen-age girl with information for him that she considered crucial, that she needed to get away from where the enemy guns were going to fire. Finally he gave up, and said, "Women, if it weren't for spiders and snakes they would make teriffic soldiers," or something to that effect. Considering that Ewell could also turn the air blue with his cursing, he probably said a great deal more as well.
I had heard in a bowhunting magazine, about this office worker who would take his lunch break at an archery range a block away from work or so, remember, take off your necktie. I had almost a disaster as well, My first bow was a compound, had about five previous owners, I traded some camp gear and a pellet gun for it, and made my own arrows with dowling and goosefeathers, sanding sealers and then varnish..... some of the most accurate arrows i ever had. Well, I was shooting at the range downtown, and i sure am glad the owner of the range, we had about room for 6 people to shoot at once.... he stopped me from taking the shot, he noticed where I did not, the steel cable was severyly frayed, was being held on by only three or four threads.... one more shot woulda tore my face off. Thank god he saw it, I was too busy looking at the targets and not checking cables. Well, that bow was done, we couldn't get replacement cables for that one, and was too short draw for me anyway. Grandma bought me a new bow for Christmas about a month later. Was so thankful, archer is a part of my identity and dearest loved skill.
Great story, cheers!
Great video. Thanks Kevin. I can relate to nearly every mishap you mentioned with a bow and arrow including splitting another arrow stuck in a target. Hopefully your stories will avert someone from having a serious accident.
I certainly hope so. 👍🏻
Very informative and entertaining.
Never dreamed so much could go wrong. Ouch. There's a whole new meaning to the word Quiver when that crossbow bolt hits a bone! Very enlightening thehistorysquad.
Very informative and very entertaining, I love your videos!
Thanks so much!
A poignant video having just completed my Scouts Archery Instructor course. Most of the weekend we were discussing safety and ways to mitigate accidents. Thanks Kevin
Great video, really enjoyed it. When I was a kid growing up in the 60's in the northeast, we had a Rag & Bone man come round with a horse and flat bed trailer. For a bundle of old clothes you could get a bow and arrow, which more often than not the lads used to get, the very often got a goldfish, just like at the fair we used to visit.
Thanks for sharing Kevin.
I haven't had the misfortune of any serious accidents with archery.
While shooting with smaller arrows than I should have I had a near accident. So I tossed them, they were cheap with plastic fletching so it was a completely acceptable loss especially in terms of safety. Luckily I wasn't hurt at all, and my bow was also undamaged.
That was very interesting, great video as always
Thanks again!
I always have enjoy your videos and keep your story coming thank you Kevin
Will do, thanks 👍🏻
My fiancé and I plan to learn archery 🏹 Its an ancient, beautiful practice/sport. I cant wait! Thanks for another great video, Kevin!
Have fun!
Brilliant as usual
Greetings once again from nova Scotia, thanks Kevin, I really enjoyed this one. I love the history behind the stories, the reality of it all, top shelf. Please keep bringing awesome videos, and as always best regards, Arthur
Thanks Arthur, I enjoyed making this one too, and hopefully it'll serve as a lesson to 'newbies' to archery 👍🏻
A few days ago, I just read a short article about the death of King Richard, the Lionheart, and what happened to Peter Bue.
The article mentioned that Richard ordered his men not to harm the shooter at all, but they still executed him after the king's death. It made me wonder if Richard's men interpreted the order differently, or the shooter said something to them that got himself executed, or perhaps, Richard's men don't really respect Richard all that much since they were willing to disobey his order.
Ps. Hearing all these injuries shows that accidents can still happen, even when you are careful. Feel sorry for the soldier though.