The Long Dark Bow and Arrow Ballistics
Channel: Stephen Pushak
Date: 2019-04-17

Demonstration of how to make a BDC reticle for aiming at deer with the bow. The thumbnail for this shot shows the actual strike of the arrow, which is squarely between the meat bags just about perfect elevation. After that, the arrow bounces.

 No deer were willing to cooperate however a bear obliged with an attack after I shot at  him with an arrow. Didn't seem to hit but he attacked. Had to crawl off and recover! I had to go back in after this recording and apply the bandage; I forgot to earlier!! Would have died in the sleep.

Also fell through the ice while beachcombing. I got a nice birch sapling though despite a dowsing! It was worth it! Three more arrows.

9:00 demonstrate skyrimming around cliffs and down steep stuff

13:35 demonstrate sprained ankle and wrist first aid! (the danger of skyrimming)

26:00 after charting, we get stuck out in a strong wind storm with high fatigue so hunker down in a house at the Waterfront Cottages.

36:20 resume heading up the highway in strong wind. Hunker down to make a fire to wait a bit and demonstrate how to make fire in a wind sheltered spot.

44:15 on a charting mission, we reach the edge of the ice and spot a birch sapling. Oops! Old Fumble Fingers! Crash through the ice but no problem.

48:30 lost in the fog after recovering from Hypothermia Risk. Tip! Follow an animal!

58:30 heading back to quonset in the fog by using dead reckoning, crows and the fishing huts for reference. Later on, we'll show how to leave trail markers so its easy to get through fog or storms.

1:00:01 visit the site of a deer kill where the quartering bags have been left out to attract crows and feathers. You can harvest the meat from a quartering meat bag without picking it up or moving it. Once you move a meat bag, it stops attracting crows.

1:07:24 reach the Quonset and set up an outdoor cooking fire to utilize the two cooking pots found in the waterfront cottages. Two pot cooking is much better! Twice as fast. Outdoor fires can be handy but tricky because the wind can change.

1:10:00 making bow and arrows

1:26:00 outdoor fire and admire the Northern lights (aurora)

1:28:30 how to cut back a fire to a specific length for finishing cooking without worrying about burning it.  Cook up the remaining raw bear meat to bring it back to 100%

1:37:00 we wonder about seting up an archery range while we do more cooking

1:40:00 we start setting up the archery range in a snowy spot

1:44:00 show how to measure distance using paces; its easier to count the paces when you're holding the bow because you shift back and forth as you walk

1:48:30 removing torches from a fire to shorten its duration

It is becoming obvious that when I mark the screen for aiming reference points, later on, in video, the screen is shifted to the right about 1 cm. OBS is clipping part of the screen. So when you do your calibrations, use your live game session to mark your screen. One more reason not to use OBS for recording. Notice the problems I've had with getting game audio going. Another OBS issue. No problem. Just make note of everything. That's why we do QA (quality assurance)

Obviously these videos are lengthy. I don't have a good quality video editor at this time; the best cost money. I use OBS because it's free (for the free version) It has a little learning curve but so far, I am able to make it work.

I am considering using VSDC Video converter; I think it may also be able to record Windows activity similar to OBS. It will have a graphical user interface so I can preview the video during the editing process. I've kept the raw files so these can be edited in future. I need a way to share those raw files without sending it through YouTube or another web hosting site that massages the video to save space. You can only get 720p graphics from YouTube, which is much lower quality than if I can share the raw video files (which are very large) I'm very open to suggestions so please respond in the comments here on YouTube or join "The Long Dark Community" on Facebook.