I was on the phone one day about 1984 with Hugh Rich. Hugh told me about a hunt he and Ande Vail went on to Santa Cruz Island. They were going for boar that day. Hugh said their were about 350 to 400 pounds and mean. It turns out that a boar found them before they found it. Hugh said the boar charge. Hugh wasn't sticking around. He got out of Dodge. Hugh said he looked back and Ande had not moved. Hugh yelled for him to run, but Ande stood right there. Hugh said if he had not seen it with his own two eyes, he would have never believed it. Hugh said Ande waited till the board got about 30 feet away and drove an arrow right thru the eye of the boar into his brain and dropped him in it tracks. Hugh always told me, Ande was born with ice water in his veins.

Does anyone have a copy of American Bowman Review April 1939? Pages 8 an 9 show Russ Hoogerhyde champion target archer and an assistant holding a 5 of hearts and 30 feet. Russ bulleyes an arrow on every heart. Each of the 5 shots could easily been an Robin Hooded arrow. Check it out.

Archers (quite a few) did many things back in the day that we wouldn't think of doing now (come to think of it the reverse is also true...archers then wouldn't consider half the stuff we have (gear) and do (methods) now as traditional archery). In any case W.W. had a physical impairment that didn't allow him to shoot with conventional form, and as as it turns out he didn't need to. His form worked quite well for 'instinctively' pointing rather than mechanically aiming, and it worked just fine for him.

No! But I think Walt's hair piece had a steel cap inside. It may have started with William Tell, but it it died out (pun intended), with Howard Hill, Bob Marksworth, and several others, along with the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Would you sit for such foolishness? I doubt it. Any small blip could be very costly,

Can you say STUPID???

I like Walt's approach, it pretty much defines by example what instinctive shooting is. The arrow isn't 'aimed', it's pointed. Nice shootin'.