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An archer has achieved a one-in-a-million feat of marksmanship after splitting one arrow with another. What makes the shot even more remarkable is that Tilly Trotter is blind. The 74-year-old grandmother pulled off the shot, known among archers as a "Robin Hood", at a practice session of the Wellington Bowmen in Somerset. Mrs Trotter, who has been an archer for two years at the invitation of granddaughter Charlotte, said: "The second arrow made such a noise going into the back of previous arrow I thought I had hit the ceiling or done some expensive damage. "Then I heard people jumping...

Lewis Anderson looked out the window of his Roseville home this spring and spotted a couple of teenage boys shooting arrows into a bale of hay next door. Anderson's blood pressure soared: His wife and young son had just been playing nearby. The boys weren't using "some toy archery kit," he said, but fast, compound bows. Anderson walked over and asked them to stop, explaining that shooting bows and arrows was illegal in back yards. But after checking city ordinances, he was shocked to learn it still was allowed. Not anymore. Roseville recently became one of a growing number of...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. - The city's Archery Park may need a name change. How about No-Archery Park? Tom Draper and his bowhunting friends have practiced archery at the park for more than 20 years, and he was surprised recently when he found a sign that cited a city ordinance prohibiting firearms -- including bows and arrows. "Several archers that I've talked to are kind of in disbelief," Draper said. "For all these years it's been there for the public to use. ... It was so convenient. And there was the camaraderie. During peak time it wasn't uncommon to have seven...

The girl with the 85-lb bow:

Girl kills elephant with 83-lb bow One of the more unusual stories I've seen on the archery forums recently...

NEW YORK -- A man taking target practice with a bow and arrow in his Manhattan apartment landed himself in jail. Police said Noel Lauria, 39, was arrested after police traced the arrows that had landed in a E. 81st Street apartment and on scaffolding on E. 80th Street to his apartment. Lauria admitted to police that he fired the arrows but he thought he shot them into a large target block on his windowsill. The Daily News reported one of the metal-tipped arrows went through a glass window. Lauria was arraigned on reckless endangerment charges and released without bail....

Policemen escort parade participants dressed as samurai warriors during a parade at the Yabusame festival in Tokyo April 21, 2007. Yabusame is a traditional form of archery performed on horseback. (Reuters)

PORTLAND, Ore. - A man who ended up at the hospital with an arrow in his head underwent surgery on Friday and is in critical condition. The victim told those at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) that his name is Kevin Evans, but KATU News discovered he has been living at a Gresham motel under a different last name. The circumstances of how he ended up with an arrow in his head are still unclear, but police are hoping to talk with him further once he is able to speak to them. Police said Evans did not try to...

I was out yesterday afternoon for a sort of a final tuneup with my own two HCA bows and there was one other guy at the site with a recent Mathews bow, parallel limbs, set just under 70 lbs. I let him try several shots with my 280-gr arrows, then we checked speed with his own arrows vs the HC arrows; it was 275 fps vs 324 fps. That's pretty substantial. Misjudge distance by five yards out past 25 yards and that's the difference between being an inch off and missing the deer and never finding the arrow. The bow...

Actually there are multiple sources for this one, you could do your own google searches on "tembo" and "howard hill". Remember the archery movies of the 50s, Robin Hood, Ivanhoe, the arrow splitting the other arrow and what not? The guy doing all the trick shooting for those films was named Howard Hill, one of the greatest archers of all time, and Tembo is one of a number of his own films. We're talking a hunting safari into the Congo back when Ike was president, and a 40-something or 50-something white guy walking out into the bush with just...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The 8th FITA World Indoor Archery Championships will begin one week from today in Aalborg, Denmark. The tournament will run March 23-27 for both recurve and compound senior and junior men and women. This competition is expected to be the largest Indoor Archery Event in FITA’s (the International Archery Federation) history with almost 400 competitors competing from approximately 50 countries around the world. The U.S., France, Italy and Sweden are expected to be the four largest delegations competing at the event with more than 20 athletes each. The U.S. is sending a team of 24 athletes,...

When Jerald R. Klein, a Manhattan housing court judge, got a call from a reporter yesterday morning, he had no idea why he was being bothered at home on the weekend. He did not know that his face was all over eBay. He did not know that he was for sale. "What are you talking about?" he said. "Yes, I am a housing court judge. But I'm not for sale." According to a posting on eBay, an online auction house, the 55-year-old judge would go to the highest bidder. After four days, the best offer was $127.50. The eBay advertisement,...

QUEBEC - Corrections Canada officials seized thousands of dollars worth of illicit drugs last year at the penitentiary at Donnacona, Que., but they had no idea how they were being smuggled in -- until guards discovered two crossbow arrows in the prison yard last month. "It's a new one for us, and I've never heard of anything like it in any other [Canadian] prison," said Carl Pelletier, deputy director of the maximum-security facility near Donnacona, a suburb of Quebec City. According to Mr. Pelletier, prison officials first heard about drugs being shot over prison fences with bows last year from...

Man Held in Arrow Incident Is Freed Despite the wounding of a deputy, no law was broken, O.C. district attorney's office says. By Zeke Minaya and Mai Tran, Times Staff Writers An Aliso Viejo man arrested over the weekend for shooting an arrow that struck a sheriff's deputy in the leg was released Tuesday after district attorney officials determined that there's no law for negligently fired arrows. Tri Thanh Lam, 44, was released from Orange County Jail, where he had been held on $1-million bail since Sunday on suspicion of attempted murder. Authorities would not disclose what Lam told investigators,...

Archer dreams of Olympics, but targets weapon law first Tuesday, June 03, 2003By Matt VandebunteThe Grand Rapids Press ROCKFORD -- She used to walk 50 meters down Peach Tree Avenue, then turn and fire arrows back across the street into the garage of her family's home in Cannon Township. Now, she packs her bow and target into the back of her Grand Prix and drives to a friend's farm in Belmont, where she sets up and takes down her equipment each day. Neither scenario is ideal for Marie DeRegnaucourt, a young archer with dreams of the 2004 Olympics. One is...

POCATELLO — A Soda Springs man being mauled by a large female black bear Saturday was saved by his father, who shot the animal through the neck with an arrow. “When you hear your son yelling for help, there’s only one thing going through your mind and that’s, ‘Get down there and save him,’” said Nolan Koller, the father of 29-year-old Jason Koller. “It happened too fast to really think,” said Jason Koller, who was recuperating at Bannock Regional Medical Center Sunday. “I was just hoping my dad could get there as quickly as possible and he did. He saved...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ The state Supreme Court ruled Monday that a law designed to prevent animal rights activists from interfering with hunters or fishermen does not violate the First Amendment. The hunter harassment law prohibits people from standing in the line of fire, harassing hunters or attempting to affect wildlife behavior with smells, sights or sounds designed to hinder hunters. The case dates back to 1991, when a group of anti-hunting activists followed a bow hunter into a state forest in Hartland on the first day of archery season. As the hunter drew his bow, they formed a semicircle...