[Flipside]

When did we hit the talk like a Viking day?

[aldo_14]

I dunno, but I'm worried about my nation.  I don't have crush or bludgeon insurance.

[kode]

Björn should really get his ****ing umlauts right.

[Bjorn Ironaxe]

You not ****ing tell Bjorn how to talk, little man.

[Fineus]

This entire page so far is basically spam. Get back to the topic before I start waving my own damn hammer around.

Also, Bjorn/Hrogar? You don't need to post your picture each time you post. You also only need one account. Pick one and leave the other one.

[Colonol Dekker]

Animalsa are meant to be hunted, its natural selection in effect........

[Mobius]

You're right.

I have discovered that Woodcocks cost 50 Euros. Damnit,with the woodcock I took down last year I could have gained money for the Donations...

[Colonol Dekker]

Well lock and load and kill for the sake of HLP, they're depending on your L337 skilLz. go out and kill some birdies. Anyone else in a locale presenting viable slaughter for cash oppertunities please present yourself now, and we can discuss imbersement.

[Flipside]

Actually, no, it's not natural selection. I don't have a problem with people who enjoy hunting, done it myself, but only for food (personally, I find archery much more fun than the point and click technique, took a pigeon out of the air once, admittedly, I was aiming at a straw target 40m away) but a predator hunting its prey to extinction as mankind has often done, or huting prey merely as a trophy is not natural selection. The first word is fine, it IS natural.

[Colonol Dekker]

To be honest, if the target can evade or defend itself, then it deserves to live, If not...... That is selective
Although hunting with unantural means IE bows guns etc does unbalance th esystem, its our own initiative, and no different to an otter lying on its back and bashing nuts with rocks to open them.

[Flipside]

Unless Woodcocks are plugged into the Matrix though, this is unlikely

[Colonol Dekker]

You never know..........

[Mobius]

I must take some Woodcocks down for HLP. It's a good thing you will surely accept!

The bow isn't that powerful. I know its potentials,it can't always hit targets at 200m and launches a single arrow while rifles discharge dozens of submunitions. However taking a Woodcock down is always difficult(they're so fast...). My father took down a woodcock at about 60 meters. You think it's impossible but it happened...wow...

[kode]

shooting a bird at 60 meters isn't really recommended, tbh.

[Flipside]

Well, to be honest, I like the Bow because it's a challenge, it's much shorter range than a rifle, this is true, the odds of hitting with a single Yardshaft is a lot less, but I'm actually a lot better an snap-shooting than I used to be, though.

Now, all I need to do is slide down the trunk of a Mammoth.....

[Mobius]

There were no risks,it passed rapidly near a very high tree and my father took it down.

If the humanity now uses the rifle instead of the bow...there should be a valid reason.
Personally I liked the bow,but I'm now interested on the Crossbow(not because of my campaign,of course).It's a powerful weapon and you caim aim well with it.

[Janos]

I must take some Woodcocks down for HLP. It's a good thing you will surely accept!

The bow isn't that powerful. I know its potentials,it can't always hit targets at 200m and launches a single arrow while rifles discharge dozens of submunitions. However taking a Woodcock down is always difficult(they're so fast...). My father took down a woodcock at about 60 meters. You think it's impossible but it happened...wow...

Compared to other snipe species woodcocks are pretty slow. You could hunt Common Snipe with bow. If you hit one, you're quite good.

[Mobius]

I was meaning that Woococks are fast and start strange meneuvers which con confuse you.

[Flipside]

Actually, the bow has some very definite advantages over the Crossbow, it's much faster and considerably more accurate. The only reason the Crossbow caught on was because it requires practically no training to use, so could be handed out to grunts, whereas Bowmen took a while to train, and in the time of pitched battles, having lots of ballistic weapons was good.

Even the common tale about a Crossbow being more powerful than a Longbow isn't true, a Yardshaft can pierce armour just as effectively as a Crossbow bolt, it not more so. The main advantage with a Bow, though, is that theres no 'Boom' to scare off everything else in the area.

[Janos]

Woodcocks are hard to shoot but compared to real snipes they're piece of cake.