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Do we have any non-Mongol accounts of how accurate Mongol horse-archers truly were? I've read that a typical Mongol soldier could shoot a bird mid-flight with an arrow. Did this translate into their battles in the form of extraordinary fire accuracy?

by /u/notmike11 in /r/AskHistorians

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