Recently Karen and I were at a shoot in NW Wisconsin. The first shot was at a back stop with balloons on it at about 15 yds. The object was to shoot(pop?, break?) the balloon with your first arrow and then you collect a door prize. Karen and I had just collected our door prizes when we got back to the line and fellow Wisconsin Traditional Archers board member Russ Johnson was up for his shot. He centered the balloon with his shot as if he had just shot a grapefruit. The arrow was sticking right thru it. After looking in disbelief for a few seconds it occurred to me to take a picture as it was loosing air very slowly. However my camera was in my tent 150 yds away. Handing Karen my  bow I made the dash there and back to get these shots. Russ then stepped back to line and administered the coup de grace with his next arrow. How about that. Lets see Myth Busters do that shot.

 

 

thats pretty neat.

COOL BEANs never seen that before. Thanks for sharing Flint

That's AWESOME!!

Pretty cool.

that is awesome.

So, no broken balloon on the first shot means no door prize for Russ, huh?  Gotta follow the rules!      

Thanks for sharing that! Pretty cool.

you should get a door prize for running 300 yds.

I remember seeing this on "Mr. Wizard" when I was a kid. If you put a pin/needle/whatever right in the very center of the top where the rubber is a bit thicker... it wont pop. Needless to say I went right out and tried it. It worked a couple times, but not every time. I would have never thought it could be done with an arrow.

That's impossible!  But there it is.

... wow.

WOW!

Now that is cool      

A similar trick I learned as a kid is that you can put clear tape on the balloon and stick something through the tape without the balloon popping.  But to hit a balloon with no tape on it with an arrow and not pop it is pretty cool!

That is COOL!!!  

I know a bit about physics and I can say that for that to happen there are no less than 100 variables required to be filled in order to repete that shot. The most crucial are ambient air temperature, air pressure in the balloon, thickness of balloon wall, sharpness of fieldpoint tip, ambient humidity, surface moisture on the point and arrow shaft(if any) and seep of arrow, arrow placement. I think those alone would make it impossible for MythBusters to duplicate the results.
Still "WOW" is appropriate; but would you believe I have not only seen this before but done it myself?

I'd say that set up is 'dialed-in' !!!

Think we should clone the arrow? the balloon? the bow? Certainly the shooter had nuttin' to do with it!!    NIce shooting.

BUT....rules are rules...did they bend them??
 :D    

Truth is always stranger than fiction
...and "seeing is believing, eh?

Who said there's no "void area" in a deers chest?...heck balloons even have one!    

Pretty cool