Lars Andersen: Recreating Comanche Archery

Comanche archer were the only archers in history who could easily defeat firearms, but how did they do archery? Joe Rogan Experience suggested they did archery like me, but this is wrong! Comanche archery is a completely different and partially forgotten method. There are many descriptions that they were incredibly good and very very fast, but no known method with the arrow on the left and arrows held in bow hand, is as fast as the Arabic method I usually use, where I only use one movement for each arrow. So something was missing? Along with Dave Mead I started researching and testing. Eric Smith has been kind to tell his great-grandfather’s experience of actually being shot after with arrows by Comanche which are written down and therefore confirm that they actually had 5 arrows in the air at the same time, when they were at war, and not just as games or the like. And a number of other descriptions are known of how extremely fast they shot arrows. It is 150 years s