DVD Byron Ferguson Become the Arrow

DVD Become The Arrow. The art of modern bare bow shooting with tips for hitting the bullseye and cleanly striking game in the vitals.

Now you can learn Byron's system for pin-point accuracy whether you're target shooting or hunting.

DVD includes a bonus bear hunt with Byron and his son Zach.

45 minutes of great shooting and instruction.

The art of barebow shooting is brought to you by Byron Ferguson as he shares his philosophies for hitting the bullseye or cleanly striking game in the vitals.

From setting up your bow to bear hunting adventures, Byron will show you how becoming the arrow helps you extend your mental approach to accurate shooting.

Byron became infatuated with the bow and arrow at the age of 12 and began working as a bricklayer's helper to earn money to purchase his first recurve.

Now famous for his coin trick, Byron once shot eight dimes in a row out of the air. A dime is a US 10 cent coin introduced in 1796, almost 18 mm in diameter, about the size of an Australian 5 cent coin. He uses no sights or other equipment when he shoots.

He developed his style of shooting by sitting in a totally dark room and shooting out the flames of candles. Splitting a playing card in half - from the side - is one of Byron's favourite tricks.

The most difficult shot in Byron's career was while performing on the television show Super People in Tokyo, Japan when he shot an arrow through a diamond ring. Without knowing about the trick and without any practice, Byron made a perfect shot.

Byron strongly believes in Howard Hill's philosophy "If you want to become a good archer then you should learn the bow and let your body become an extension of the bow. If you want to become a great archer, you should let your body become the arrow".

When he began shooting, he did not have to worry about hitting the paper target on a bale of hay - he could not even hit the hay!

Byron is a show favourite, attracting not only avid bowhunters and archers, but whole families. One of the major reasons he shoots a longbow is because it has so much romance tied to it. Longbows are traceable to the cavemen and have been praised in songs, poems and stories since the dawn of mankind.

Byron Ferguson, the man Apache Indians ceremonially named "Tdo-ee-cee-e" which means The One That Doesn't Miss had an iconic national appearance in the US on NBC's "Tonight Show" shortly following the 11th September 2001 terrorist attacks. Host Jay Leno tossed a small target into the air bearing the likeness of Osama bin Laden and Ferguson nailed it between the eyes.

As a youth, Ferguson idolised and later emulated celebrity archer Howard Hill, who was a brilliant showman as well as a bowhunting pioneer.

Ferguson got the opportunity to defend his hero's honour in "The Greatest Shots in History", a programme on The History Channel. Byron replicated what is known as "to shoot a Robin Hood" - shooting an arrow into an arrow already lodged into the target.

This particular trick shot was executed by Hill for the cameras during the 1938 filming of "The Adventures of Robin Hood", starring the late Tasmanian actor, Errol Flynn. "They didn't have good trick photography when he filmed that shot. He had to make it for it to look the way it did", said Ferguson.

"Evidently the guys on the "MythBusters" show decided that splitting an arrow is impossible. I think they just don't know how to select an arrow with a straight grain to split".

Many archers occasionally hit an arrow already in the target but their arrow bounces away. To qualify as a "Robin Hood" shot, the arrow must lodge into the back of the arrow already in the target.

In the demonstration here, the arrow goes all the way inside the arrow already in the target. This feat is quite amazing but there is some "chicanery" involved in the trick succeeding in that the arrow already in the target has no nock installed, which has made the second arrow disappearing look quite spectacular.

In Hill's day, carbon and aluminium arrows did not exist, so Hill actually split the wood arrow and this was very difficult. In our vestibule, at our Castle Hill store, we have on display, an arrow that has been "Robin Hooded". This feat is similar to "a hole in one" in golf.

This is the long awaited ideal companion DVD to Byron Ferguson's best selling 122 page book titled Become The Arrow which is also available and can be purchased separately. Many archers buy the DVD and then buy the book.

View the book Become the Arrow at Book Become the Arrow by Byron Ferguson who bears the Jicarilla Apache name "Tdo-ee-cee-e", which means "The One Who Does Not Miss"

Approximate 45 minutes run time. MA 15+.