[willy]

They are amazing Tsubaki.
I hunted with a long bow mostly along with a few recurves all my life. The first year I hunted with my longbow, an osage 65 pound 68" long bow I watched as a mature doe walked in in front of me about ten yards away from me, I was in a old shotgun stand 12 feet off the ground. When she gave me that nice quartering away shot I drew and released and watched my arrow slide right into the spot I was looking at and come out the other side and stick in the ground solidly. It was so quiet not a sound at all except the arrow sliding right thru her. She jumped up a little startled at the sound of the arrow hitting the ground along side her, paused for about ten seconds and went back to eating the forbs she had been munching on when I shot. A few seconds later she got a little wobbly, kind of like me after a few too many Jacks and then she knelt down on her front legs and then her back legs and then layed down like she was putting her head on a pillow and went to sleep.
Total elapsed time maybe three minutes if that, probably less.
After that I hunted with longbows all the time, shooting something so beautiful and so quiet and taking such a beautiful creature in such amazing places has to be one of Gods greatest gifts to a man.