In the book Turkish Archery and the Composite Bow, Paul E. Klopsted writes the Turkish archers had a method of testing a bow whether it was worthy to take into battle, They had a distance of 75 yards marked off. In the middle of that distance there was a rope at a height of 8 feet strung between two poles. A archer standing at one end of the 75 yards released a arrow. If the arrow made it under the rope and hit the target at the other end of the 75 yards the bow was ok to take into battle. The Turkish archers would practice getting off the third arrow before the fist arrow hit the target. Physicist Dr C.N. Hickman who developed the first chronograph for the Army calculated the arrow had to be traveling at 180 feet a second in order to make it under the rope and still his the target. He also calculated the archer had to get off the third arrow within a 1 1/2 seconds of the first arrow for all three arrows to be in flight at the same time. Turkish archers could hold arrows in their hand holding the bow as if it was a magazine on a firearm.
Larry....for starters...those mongol ( and similar) bows were reportedly capable of sending an arrow two, three, maybe four times as far as my lil bow can do. Th as t amounts to much more air time.
Larry, I am sure that Pope, in his book, was disbelieving until he trained for a bit and, if memory serves, he managed 7 arrows vertically. I will have to check the number.
I got 8 arrows in the air at the same time with a left hand recurve. Sure I shot them all at the same time, shotgun style, just like that guy that hunts with compounds and shoots a target recurve behind his back as aspirins with a 16" draw at about 10 feet and then says "GOT IT''. I often wonder how much is myth and how much was reality in ancient tales nor do I understand how that Lars Anderson can do what he does. Shooting light weight arrows straight up one would think getting 3 or 4 arrows up at one time should be easy, it is not. I cannot.