Danish archer Lars Andersen shoots quite fast and it looks great but he’s using a really light draw bow. “On average 12 would be the ideal number in a minute,” says Gonsalves. Unless you were trying to take down a tank.” Speedĭetails on how many arrows Hawkeye can shoot in a single minute are sketchy, but his DC cousin the Green Arrow – whose abilities are not hugely dissimilar – can shoot 29. I can’t think of any circumstance you would want a 250-pound bow. There’s absolutely no reason to have that sort of draw weight.
The bow draw weight for Hawkeye, according to the comics, is 250 pounds, which makes Gonsalves burst out laughing: “Oh God, no! To say that is overkill is an understatement. The world record, held by Mark Stretton, is over 200 pounds.” War bows from the site of the Mary Rose of England had an estimated draw weight of 180 pounds.
If you’re doing Olympic archery you’re looking at maybe 40, 45 pounds. I’m trying to hunt an animal, not blow a hole inside of it. “When hunting, I’ve never really had anything more than a maximum of 70 pounds. “60 pounds will blow through Kevlar,” says Gonsalves. How much bow draw weight an archer needs depends on what they’re doing. In archery, bow draw weight is the amount of force needed to pull a bow, which then translates into how powerful the shot is.
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With the release of new Disney+ series Hawkeye this week, Gonsalves talks us through why the superhero is way more than just some guy with a bow and arrow… Power But even so, it’s not like Hawkeye is any ordinary archer.