The Bull's Eye is a term well known to darts playing pub-goers, and denotes the highest scoring, central spot on a darts board. The first use of the term in this setting is unknown. It has been speculated that hunters attempting to fell a large beast would aim for its eye, killing it with a single arrow into the brain through the socket. In practicing for this they would paint an eye of a bull on the cut end of a tree trunk, forming a target for archery. Alternatively, the end of a wine barrel would have formed the target for off-duty soldiers playing darts with shortened arrows, and the highest scoring part for the target was the cork. The alternative name for a bull's eye thus remains the 'cork'. The term 'to hit a bull's eye' has also come to mean success in a particular pursuit.
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