Archery Trick Shots
From the legendery Byron Ferguson
Byron became infatuated with archery and the bow arrow at the age of 12 and began working as a bricklayer’s helper to earn money to purchase his first recurve bow. Now famous for his coin trick, Byron once shot eight dimes in a row out of the air. He uses no sights or other gadgets on his bow when he shoots, he developed his style of archery 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 favorite tricks. The most difficult shot of Byron’s archery career came while performing on the television show Super People in Tokyo when he shot an archery arrow through a diamond ring. Without knowing about the trick and without any practice, Byron made a perfect shot.
When he began archery shooting, he did not have to worry about hitting the paper target on a bale of hay - he could not even hit the hay. 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 was the first American archer invited to Europe to demonstrate his longbow skills since the legendary Howard Hill toured the continent more than 40 years ago.
