RECURVED BOW

[DYEUZ]

Hello fellow hunters .

I am asking for any advice or tips , in using the recurved bows . I am trying them out , since couple days . I find them to be wayyyy different than in Classic, which i kind of am able to successfully use and kill animal at fairly good distances .

But in CotW , man !!! is it tough . The aiming is like , not even on target most of the time . You need to aim way off !

So , i'm asking for any tips advice on how to shoot with it and yes , i went to the range to check it out and couldn't believe how it was .

If i can't get any pointers , i'll simply put it back in my locker and use the faithful compound bow .

tyvm

[Mr_Banks]

Yea, sadly, you're right. I never had such a bow neither in Rl nor in the Hunter. I usually used the longbow in TheHunter classic as the first choice of weapon for weeks and weeks and I was familar even to the cable backed bow too.Those were my bows. But this chineese bow is really hard to use. Either it's way to high, or I hit the dirt. No wonder that these chineese hero only hit the nine suns with it.

I mean that's not a big deal, if you imagine how big the suns might have been.

Even with moose or bears I have the biggest problems to hit anything. It's very inaccurate.

The only thing that helped me a little was training at the shooting range (as you already did) but the closest target is about 50m, so I spent lots of arrows and still I am not successful with it. I only use that chineese trash bow, when the target is about 20m away. So if an animal is 20m away, aim underneath the knees and you might hit it. I am very disapointed concerning that chineese bow.

It's totally different from all recurve bows I know and totally behaving different compared to all recurve bows in TheHunter classic.
The worst weapon amongst all weapons they offer.

And by the way, I do not understand, why they created a chineese bow, while not having a chineese map. A good and traditional longbow used by the native alaskian indians would fit to the game.

There was someone not thinking, when he ment to develope a traditional bow and added it to the game.

Well try hard, but I promise you you won't have much fun with it.

I hope they somehow will re-do this bow or create the trad. longbow that works exactley like the bow in TheHunter classic.

[DYEUZ]

Thx for your post and opinion.

I doubt they will do anything to these bows . They are meant to be just like they are .

I went and looked at some videos on YT and will practice what they showed .
I might just get it , in the long run and with some actual shooting .

[wubbelflup]

Watch some vids on it. Helps. Also. Try shooting in the range or just a tree.

I've given up on it though.

[DYEUZ]

thx epicpotato . I did just that and know what to do now . I will admit , that last night , i went out in Africa and had a blast with the bow and Warthogs / BW .

I will use it for a while still .

thx to all

[Jonathan J. O'Neill]

You have to aim low and to the right of your target. If you look at the grip of the bow, you see ridges in it from the cordage used in the wrapping.

About twelve ridges up is the center-line on a 1920x1080 monitor. FoV doesn't matter at it doesn't change the view of the arms and weapons

A good way to learn with the bow is to trim a dot of stickypad and stick it to the monitor when you have a scope raised. The very center of the crosshair is the center of your screen.

Now, raise your recurve bow and see where that dot lines up compared to your knuckle and the twelfth (or between the sixth white and sixth black) wrap. Or guesstimate to the top of the bottom 1/3 of the wrap

That is your aiming point of reference before adjusting for yardage.

Basically, in the image below, you aim where the handle of the weapon cache is located.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1883323400

[DYEUZ]

thx for your help Jonathan .
I am managing very well presently , just by using the centre of my screen for reference . Been dropping them pretty easy an fast .

[Atlar]

I use the left tip of the arrow as starting point then "look down the arrow" to make my aim. Has been working pretty well for me up to 35m.