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what lbs makes it a warbow insted of a longbow
alanesq:
I bet if you tried a 100lb bow you would be surprised how light it feels now you are used to using a 110lb one
I have a 105lb bow I use for indoor archery and after shooting my 140lb one it really does feel like I am not trying at all and I could hold it at full draw for hours (although I probably couldn't)
Yewboy:
--- Quote from: alanesq on May 16, 2009, 02:54:27 pm ---
I bet if you tried a 100lb bow you would be surprised how light it feels now you are used to using a 110lb one
I have a 105lb bow I use for indoor archery and after shooting my 140lb one it really does feel like I am not trying at all and I could hold it at full draw for hours (although I probably couldn't)
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And probably shouldn't!, not unless you want to break it.
bow-toxo:
I would like to know when was the earliest use of the term 'warbow' ? I have not come across it in any mediaeval or Renaissance writings and I suspect that it may be a modern made-up word. I wonder why we should exclude less powerful longbows from investigation. BTW the word longbow was nof a Victorian invention.
Erik
alanesq:
I think the term "warbow" comes from or at least was made popular by Robert Hardy's book "The Great Warbow"
I don't think lighter bows should be ignored but I think we need to distinguish between them and the bows which would have been used for war as they are very different and I think even now some people believe that the 40lb bow they have is a replica of the bows used at Agincourt (although things have improved a lot in this respect even in the 3 years I have been interested in archery)
Yeomanbowman:
The term ‘warbow’, with regard to the Anglo-Welsh medieval/Tudor tradition may not be contemporary with the period it refers to. I believe livery bow may be more correct. However, it is a title that has become to categorise these bows. No one would degenerate the title ‘Neanderthal’ because a hominid of that type would not use it. We will never know what they used as a self descriptor but we do not argue over the modern version. By this token the, albeit, retrospective name of ‘English warbow’ is a useful one and describes the type of bow well to a modern audience.
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