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what lbs makes it a warbow insted of a longbow
nickf:
thanks for your reply steve!
160#,.. that's a purty average :) Hopefully I'll get close to it when I'm 18 :P
It shouln't surprise me at all, actually. Those guys shot their bows so often... And without much bow-drawing I got to 115# pretty quickly, at my 16years of age. I imagine the 16year-olds of those days wouldn't have had problems with 120#+ , not to speak of the adults.
AD, 100#@28" isn't bad at all. But I'd advice you to go for a longer draw, say 30-32", you can draw a little heavier at that long drawlength.
and Rod, thanks for the additional info.
Nick
bow-toxo:
Men were sent home, for example, for not being capable of acheiving a desired "rate of fire".
Whilst we can say that the longbow can be a "warbow", we cannot truthfully say that "the warbow" is a longbow, only that the archetype of the English "warbow" is a longbow (or more precisely) a single stave yew longbow, but that certain other woods were acceptable substitutes.
Rod.
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For the word to have a recognizable meaning, I hope we can restrict the term ‘longbow’ to European bows not much wider than thick and long enough to draw at least to the ear.To me, that would include all MR bows. Perhaps you have a better definition.
While archers were nearly the entire male [and some of the female] population of mediaeval and early Tudor England, of course some were preferred. For royal bodyguards, tall strong archers were selected. For military archers there were those ‘of the first sort’, probably those placed in the front ranks of the herce, and those ‘of the second sort’. However men enlisted to serve as assistants to the surgeon were instead pulled into the shooting formations to serve as archers.
Again , I would appreciate knowing the original source for men being sent home for failing the 'rate of fire' test.
Erik
alanesq:
Hello AD
It would be nice if you could tell us something about who you are and what archery experience you have etc. as I notice you have only just joined the forum and you have not introduced yourself etc.
AD:
A middle-aged archer, been shooting longbow for exactly a year this month, though I had two flatbows as a teenager.
I did a course at the club with my wife & daughters on recurves, but wasn't tempted to buy one(until quite recently when another member allowed me to shoot his brand new Bernadini riser).
Already own three bows, Bickerstaffe hickory/greenheart/osage/osage laminate 50lb@28(pulls to 29), Dave Cotterill hickory/yew/lemonwood 65lb@30, and the aforementioned Bickerstaffe replica warbow hickory/satinwood/osage/osage laminate which is 100lb@28 (pulls to 32" and is truly a long bow at 85" tip to tip).
The heavy bow was bought to build up my strength & shoot clout. I think I'd settle on something around 70lb for target, while 50lb is enough for field.
I'm probably the worst archer in the club when it comes to concentration. Shooting a Windsor on the 50lber the other week I was keeping up with the opposition at 60... until half way through the 50, sent four arrows alternately either side of the target, l, r, l, r, and just started laughing at myself.
As long as I enjoy arching...
Rod:
Erik,
I have what seems to me to be a distinct recollection of having read it somewhere, but I'll have to trawl through the literature to see if I can find it.
If I can't then perhaps I can pretend that I only put it in there to see how long it took for you to ask for the source? :-)
Rod.
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