I wish the arrow will be implemented as soon as possible

[Diggydug (DayZ) 331]

On a slightly windy day, a bow strung 10m away can be hard to place.

on a very windy day, you could miss it entirely

Okay. Not sure why that's directed at me but okay. I'm unfamiliar with using bows and crossbows at various ranges and how you compensate for the variables at hand, so I'm not going to even discuss that. Not my place.

[Firstbornchicken 34]

but not something you can just use to shoot one guy in a group from 10m away and no one know where it came from.

 

Okay. Not sure why that's directed at me but okay.

 

It's obvious really.

 

Sports bows which is the most reasonable kind of bows to find in such a setting, are very quite, and with any sound pollution they become all most impossible to locate, or hear entirely.

 

Being hard to hear where an arrow came from at even 10m, is reasonable. If someone comes within 10m of your group and fires an arrow unseen, you hearing it is the last thing you should be thinking about (Going about this gameplay wise seeing as you said you know little of bows)

 

My 2 cents is, i see no reason to add an unnatural high volume to a already cumbersome weapon. 

[BelMarduk 169]

I personally have three bows. I have a Bear II compound set for 65lbs. I have two recurve bows (those were my dads). The compound bow is pretty much all I shoot, occasionally I take the recurves out, but the older I get, the wider the time frame between uses.  I hunt, and subsequently practice with the compound. 

This style of shooting (the video) is more attuned to a recurve bow verses a compound bow, but if you apply the style of shooting to all those ancient stories about Hun horseback archers, or Egyptian chariot archers, I think this video can show how a bow 'in the right hands' can be quite affective.

 

For all intents and purposes any compound bow you would find, will be silent enough beyond 5-10 meters. Bow strings get mounted with 'silencers', those little pom pom looking things attached to the bow string. Those suppress a huge amount of the sound the bow makes. Sound travels faster than an arrow, unlike a bullet, so if you have a bow that makes allot of noise (stepping on a twig will spook a dear at 30-40 meters, for reference of 'loud')... If the sound of the bow reaches the dear before the arrow does, the dear is going to spook and you're not going to be cooking venison that evening.