Traditional bow or competitive recurve bow, which one is more accurate?

There are many powerful marksmen in many ancient and modern Chinese and foreign classics and legends. Most of them use traditional bows and have very high shooting accuracy.

So, in today's situation, when using traditional bows without any aiming accessories and competitive recurve bows, which one will have higher accuracy?

Accuracy of traditional bows
Yang Youji's 100-step shooting is a fable. The ancients took two steps as one step, that is, five feet. Today, the ancients called one step "跬".

One hundred steps is five hundred feet. Even if the pre-Qin ruler was small, one hundred steps was one hundred and twenty meters. It is quite difficult to shoot the leaves of the willow at a distance of one hundred meters, and the credibility is low. First of all, it is difficult to see a target as big as a willow leaf with the naked eye.

Yang Youji's 100-step shooting
Secondly, the arrow shafts in ancient times were mostly made of natural materials such as bamboo and wood, and it is impossible to have the same specifications as bullets. Even if they are carefully selected, different arrows will have uncontrollable errors in weight, winding (softness and hardness), and straightness.

However, there are still some credible records in history, such as "Shooting Halberds at the Gate". At that time, there were only 1,200 people in Lu Bu's camp, and most of them were infantry. The ancients emphasized that infantry should be dense. Shooting Halberds at the Gate
So the area of ​​Lu Bu's camp at that time should not be large, and the distance between the central army tent and the gate should not exceed 50 meters. However, shooting the halberd's small branch at a distance of dozens of meters is enough to prove Lu Bu's bravery.

In addition, there are also the "Three Arrows to Conquer Tianshan" by Xue Rengui of the Tang Dynasty and the continuous shooting and killing of seven Qiang army pioneers by Wang Shunchen of the Song Dynasty (three of whom were shot in the center of the eyebrows), which are relatively credible records.

The accuracy of the two
Of course, in terms of accuracy, traditional bows are not as good as competitive recurve bows, which are modern bows designed for accurate shooting, that is, the bows used in the Olympic archery competition.
However, whether it is a competitive recurve bow or a compound bow, it is impossible to shoot on horseback. Bows and arrows were standard equipment for cavalry in ancient times, and ancient cavalry from all over the world would carry bows and arrows. Even European cavalry, which was not famous for its bows and arrows, had many horse archers before the advent of muskets. Horse archery could only be done with traditional bows.