How Far Can Arrows Fly?

How Far Can Arrows Fly?
How far do arrows travel? This graph shows bullet trajectory of the modern rifle and arrow trajectory of the modern bow. The bullet will travel to 100 yards with very little drop in trajectory. Even a very fast arrow has a pronounced trajectory arc, therefore yardage estimation is very critical to archery.

How far could an arrow fly?

PSE Whitetail Extreme shot a little over 300 yards. Buddy had a better bow and it went probably 70 yards further.

How far can you fire an arrow?

Famous archers of the time had record-breaking shots accurate over 300 yards, but the average archer was only accurate up to about 200 yards with the standard practice range being 220 yards.
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