44 Bulldog if I was shooting a S&W M624 with the same ammo on the same range. Limited to a new gun and six shots, Jerry Miculek would crush me with a. But there has to be a basis of skill and knowledge for any tool to be properly applied. And if one understands why the tool is better for how the person uses that tool, that purchase can make sense. There is still a culture (and I have been guilty of it myself) to buy a tool to increase performance. Part of the intent behind the saying is that "the Indian" knows the difference between a good "arrow" and a bad one. If we were to apply "It's The Indian, Not The Arrow" to firearms, it would be like saying "It's Not The Minuteman, It's His Balls". So, really what someone means when they say "It's The Indian, Not The Arrow" is "It's The Indian, Not The Bow". It's happened before, but I'm certain that incident was a conspiracy cooked up between my ex-wives.) (Unless Coyote intervenes on behalf of the Indian with superior shooting skills just to prove me wrong. An Indian who is a mediocre shot, using excellent arrows, will outshoot an Indian who is an excellent shot but is burdened with bent, featherless arrows. While the the Indian is important to the equation, it is in fact, all about the arrow. Or if the arrow head is installed crooked. Take a video and post it in this thread.) Or if the spine of the shaft is too stiff. (Go to college and explain that to a Millennial and let the hilarity ensue. No Indian is going to hit his mark using arrows with no feathers (You in the back- be quiet! Yes, I know the earliest arrows had no fletchings, but that's besides the point! They were quickly superseded in the IPM.) and no arrow will fly straight and strike its target if the shaft is bent. Arrows aren't the weapon (unless you pull one from the quiver and start stabbing Orcs in the eye like Legolas the Elf.) Arrows are ammunition. A coconut shell because it wouldn't fit in anything smaller-Īny archer worth his salt will tell you that their skill in hitting their mark is useless if the arrow won't fly straight. Well, I suppose you've earned it, so for what it's worth, here it is in a nut shell. I suppose your expecting an explanation to my assertion. Wait- you've gotten this far? I thought people would have stopped long before getting to this paragraph and simply hit the "Report This Post" button. So, in the name of peace and decency and to not add too much to Tom's already heavy load as PF's Chief Babysitter, I'll give the originator the benefit of the doubt and simply leave it at "being a gunguy, he knew nothing of archery".) (One might go so far as to ascertain that the originator knew nothing about shooting but that would start a riot. In any case, it was a long time ago, probably after the invention of gunpowder, because you can best betcha Hong Kong believe it, whoever it was who said it first, knew nothing about archery. I don't who first said "It's The Indian, Not The Arrow" or perhaps "It's The Mongol, Not The Arrow" or "It's The Welshman, Not The Arrow". "Not only is it so obvious, it goes without saying, it's clever and sounds catchy, too!" Yet, it does get said and will get said and no one stops to think that maybe, just maybe, it isn't so clever after all. The saying is so common, it gets repeated without the user giving it a thought and without the audience questioning it's wisdom. It means we gotta man up and accept that we are failures, losers with no hope of- but I digress. It means as shooters, we can't blame our lack of performance on gear. They're good because they're good, even if they were armed with a Charter Arms Bulldog and dressed in a wife beater, grey boxers and old bunny slippers. It's used to explain that good shooters aren't good because they use the latest generation carbon fiber framed pistol with a high tech ceramic slide with telescoping ammo, Cool Shades eye wear and snazzy tactical Dockers. It's a saying that's called, um something- a fancy word I can't remember that basically means "A Catchy Phrase That Would Make A Good Bumper Sticker And Sell A Lot of Tee Shirts". We see the phrase "It's The Indian, Not The Arrow" a lot in the shooting community.
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