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what lbs makes it a warbow insted of a longbow

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youngbowyer:
a warbow is a SELFBOW.

alanesq:

--- Quote from: youngbowyer on March 03, 2009, 10:51:07 am ---a warbow is a SELFBOW.

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A warbow was a self bow - but is it now ?

i.e. are you saying that if your bow isnt a self bow with natural string and sidenocks etc. then you can't call it a warbow ?

actually - to take it to the extreme then a warbow is basically one of the Mary Rose bows - anything else is a replica

triton:
it's all getting a bit silly now  :-\

If you'd been practicing at least weekly with the bow from the age of 7, you ought to be able to draw 100LB as easily as a modern archer draws 50 or 60LB and hit the mark at 200 yards by the time you were of age to go to war.  therefore it would be pointless handing out bows less than 120LB.
They knew full well what was required to penetrate the enemy and what was needed to get it there, hence the need to train from an early age.
A laminate is not IMO a replica warbow, an English bow of warbow draw weight perhaps.  As far as I'm aware there is no evidence that English bows were laminated or of composite build, though they would have obviously been aware of the technology due to mongolian bows brought here by the Romans.
If you couldn't draw the bows issued, an average of 140LB, you didn't make muster and stayed home with your mum.

Barrage:

--- Quote from: triton on March 03, 2009, 01:29:12 pm ---If you couldn't draw the bows issued, an average of 140LB, you didn't make muster and stayed home with your mum.

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Or at least given a pointy stick and called infantry.

triton:

--- Quote from: Barrage on March 03, 2009, 03:10:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: triton on March 03, 2009, 01:29:12 pm ---If you couldn't draw the bows issued, an average of 140LB, you didn't make muster and stayed home with your mum.

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Or at least given a pointy stick and called infantry.

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;D :D

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