Doc,
The fact that those skills are still being taught and encouraged is a great thing!
The 200yd bow shot, while unusual, is not unknown. The English longbowmen were required to practice shooting at targets the size of a man's head at that distance and were effective at far greater ranges.
The English longbow, however, is of much greater draw weight than the Plains Indian bows and used much longer, heavier arrows.
The sheer number of smaller stone points, commonly referred to as "bird points" shows that shooting at small, rapidly moving targets was a rule rather than an exception, leading to the conclusion that these were highly skilled archers, capable of a high degree of precision.
Ed
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