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Swamp Bow:
Hi All,
After watching the video that Outcast posted (thanks), I noticed that several of the archers "lost" their arrows on the draw and had to abort release, some of them repeatedly. Is that normal? I also noticed that there was a decent breeze blowing, was that a(the) contributing factor? It was coming off of the left shoulder and pushing the arrow onto, not off of the hand though. I seems that this would not be a good scenario in a battle when everyone is amped and nervous. Are we missing something?
Swamp
outcaste:
Hi,
It was extremely windy on this day. The wind was right to left over the shooting line and easily over 20mph, very difficult conditions to shoot in.
Alistair
Swamp Bow:
Looked like you needed make your point of aim way off to one side just to stay in the same county. :) Difficult conditions I'm sure. Not a jab at the archers in the video. I did notice you weren't among the ones that had to abort. It just made me wonder if archers of old did something to prevent that in the heat of battle or lousy conditions. I can't imagine any military commander being pleased if a third of his archers said "wait, let me try that again".
Swamp
Rod:
I'm don't think I've seen the video in question, but I do recall a shoot at Pepperstock (a York round if my recollection is correct) being discontinued some years ago due to gusting gale force winds.
The compound shooters wanted to stop for not unreasonable reasons of safety because the wind kept blowing their arrows off their drop away rests at full draw and quite a few of the recurves agreed probably because they were not getting the scores they wanted.
Only the longbows protested because they found the conditions interesting.
If you don't mind telling me where this video is posted I'd like to take a look at it.
Rod.
Swamp Bow:
Hey Rod, in the previous thread: http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,15961.0.html
Swamp
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