Who is the greatest

[COMPOUNDLESS IN CONCRETE]

Originally posted by Hit-or-Miss:
Not to start a debate, but IMHO... In viewing the old films from the 50's on DVD (Hill and Bear), although Hill was a great shot on the range, the best in fact, I would say that Fred Bear was a better hunter. His films show what appears to be honest shots, both hits and misses, at wild game in fair chase situations. In Hill's films, there appears to be wires or snares holding game still for the shot. I have watched them in slow motion, and several of the animals where tied by the leg to a wire, you can see it moving across the grass. And I read an account in a vintage archery mag about Tembo the Elephant being shot in the leg with a rifle, essentialy hobbling him so Hill could get close enough to shoot him with an arrow. I wish that I had never bought the Hill films. Hill was one hell of a shot, but Fred Bear is THE #1 MAN in my book!

Interesting, I have the Tembo dvd coming from Netflix this week.  I will pay close attention to this.

[JEFFRO]

I read this and cringged.

as i and everone has there own oppion,

but MR. HILL.  is and will ever be the
WORLD'S BEST ARCHER..
NO DEBATE NESSESARY...

[Stone Knife]

Hill was the best, if you have any doubts read this link please   The legends story.

[Earl E. Nov...mber]

Let's turn that around and say the top archers of today have to make their own equipment and use self bows, linen strings and wood arrows, and shoot with the masters of years gone by.
Now how ya betting on that one.

[Stone Knife]

What Hollywood put out and what Hill did on his hunts are two different things.

[lpcjon2]

Ishi!

[SveinD]

What about Mr.Ferguson? Seeing him shoot it out with Howard Hill and Lajos Kassai would be brilliant!

[Steve in Canton]

Who cares

[mattmcdonald]

all those old timers were awesome but im curious as to who is the best today

[lpcjon2]

Originally posted by mattmcdonald:
all those old timers were awesome but im curious as to who is the best today

When competing against myself I am!...LOL

[wapiti792]

 Man let's throw in a 2 blade vs 3 blade and a recurve vs longbow debate in here too    This one could be around for awhile. It's a long way to fall.

[Arrowhead80]

If i din't have to work all the time and chase a two year old around before i practice the playing field might be even.Ya think those guys worked a full time job and then practice or was practicing their job?I'd like to think they had a little more time on there hands than those of us in todays ratrace.How many bows ya think Rick Welch makes a day and still whoops tail on a regular basis.The greats of every generation are great,some are just talked about more than others.I think todays champs could hang.

[brinkwolf]

Originally posted by Danny Rowan:
Howard Hill won 194 field tournements straight but quit competing as he wanted to be a hunter, not a tourney archer.

He quit because he was tired of being accused of cheating because he always won. He would even let the others take his score and pull his arrows and they still said he was cheating so he just quit because it took all the fun out of it for him.

[Ranger B]

This topic gets debated in all sports to no avail. There simply isn't an acceptable answer. Could Magic Johnson compete with Labron James? Could Frank Shorter out run Ryan Hall? Can Hoyce Gracie compete with Matt Hughes? No. As was shown in the ring. We evolve. The sport evolves. Equipment evolves. It's okay to say that they are legends for what they did in their time. To compare them to today's shooters is really unfair. Heck my kids are doing work in 3rd grade that I did in 5th grade. Each generation takes it to the next level - and that's okay - even good.

[COMPOUNDLESS IN CONCRETE]

"Can Hoyce Gracie compete with Matt Hughes? No. As was shown in the ring."

Yeah and neither could his brother.

[String Cutter]

Howard Hill was the man in field archery!! Hate to watch his videos cause( Yes) you can see the wire on the animals leggs..
Fred Bear was a great shot too. Though I think he was alittle over rated as a hunter??   I think some of us could do just as well..if we could afford to hunt all of those places back then for monthes on end..

[heydeerman]

Lebron James is the best  

[Biggie Hoffman]

What kind of bow does he shoot?

[term]

The best probably died 10,000 years ago?

[Don Stokes]

How long is it until hunting season??