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
some research into the protiens left on bird points indicates that they were actually most often used on deer sized game....smaller point equaling grater penetration....
and on the english long bow, they were a poundage that most modern bow hunters would think unreal....believe they started at 150#'s.....which is part of the reason crossbows became so popular, instead of a lifetime of training and conditioning to be a longbowman a day or two made you a ok crossbowman....
