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New Year Shooting at the Medieval Butts
Marc St Louis:
A 52 gram arrow is roughly 800 grains. Such an arrow fletched with low cut feathers can easily be shot 220 yards with an efficient 80 lb bow, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if a 70# bow could do it
Good luck with your shoot
Yeomanbowman:
--- Quote from: Marc St Louis on December 06, 2009, 07:46:19 pm ---A 52 gram arrow is roughly 800 grains. Such an arrow fletched with low cut feathers can easily be shot 220 yards with an efficient 80 lb bow, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if a 70# bow could do it
Good luck with your shoot
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Yes, on a good weather day or for one end at least if the wind picks up. Where the field is usually means that any wind is tail or head as it's in a valley. In theory one arrow is enough to win :D
Jaro:
Marc it wont be that easy with longbow, much less if the arrow has binding and forged arrowhead. Standard is 52 gram and see the results of distance achieved. That said, it is not best arrow for distance, since it does not like to fly far. But even low cut triangular fletch arrow wont do this distance easy with bows of this weight.
On our last shot we had surprisingly good bows in terms of cast in weights from 80#-100# - which is what most of our lads here can manage and best shot 187 m that is 204 yrds. (With 100#/31" dogwood bow and standart). We tried also more of low cut feather arrows and surprisingly didnt get that much distance over it. It might actually do 220 in better weather and without crosswind and with better arrow. My pal Paja has another 80# dogwood bow, which for its weight is one of best longbows I have seen and it wont do the distance.
Usually 80# longbow is quite good if it does 200 yrds with standart. 220 with 100# is pretty good if you look at the results. I would think it would need lots of fidling with arrow to get 220 yrds from 80#, much less 75#.
But then, I m first to admit we dont have best arrows around made.
J.
Rod:
As it happens I mentioned this shoot to F.Russell French who holds a "Three Clout End" award, probably the only known LB three clout end to date in open competition, in the form of a blazer badge especially made for and presented to him by Bert Smith for three consecutive arrows in the clout in BLBS competition.
Predictably, the response was not unexpected.
Although he is capable of making the distance with the necessary equipment, he expressed the view that he was not inclined to go to the trouble of travelling to a shoot where the rules of shooting made it a lottery rather than a test of skill.
Not to say that the odds would not be somewat in the favour of the better archers, but we have seen it happen before at fun shoots where a notorious muff wins with one serendipitous arrow.
If I had the necessary equipment to hand and was able to attend, I would be happy to shoot if the number of hits by every archer were published, even if I were at the bottom of that list with no hits at all, which is by no means impossible at 220 yards, especially on a windy day.
And given my dilapidated physical condition, Jeremy. ::)
I have been considering a heavier bow, no doubt still light by artillery standards, but I am torn between that and making a new primitive bow to my own measure for instinctive field shooting in the NFAS.
I don't get out much these days, but I did win an Xmas Pudding yesterday at Spirit of Sherwood with a tolerable but not outstanding peg average of 13.5 using a borrowed bow that I made quite some time ago for a friend who has much shorter arms than I.
Still, I am glad to see this healthy but tentative step towards addressing what until now has appeared to be an unpopular topic.
Rod.
Ian.:
--- Quote from: Rod on December 07, 2009, 09:57:40 am ---As it happens I mentioned this shoot to F.Russell French who holds a "Three Clout End" award, probably the only known LB three clout end to date in open competition, in the form of a blazer badge especially made for and presented to him by Bert Smith for three consecutive arrows in the clout in BLBS competition.
Predictably, the response was not unexpected.
Although he is capable of making the distance with the necessary equipment, he expressed the view that he was not inclined to go to the trouble of travelling to a shoot where the rules of shooting made it a lottery rather than a test of skill.
Not to say that the odds would not be somewat in the favour of the better archers, but we have seen it happen before at fun shoots where a notorious muff wins with one serendipitous arrow.
If I had the necessary equipment to hand and was able to attend, I would be happy to shoot if the number of hits by every archer were published, even if I were at the bottom of that list with no hits at all, which is by no means impossible at 220 yards, especially on a windy day.
And given my dilapidated physical condition, Jeremy. ::)
I have been considering a heavier bow, no doubt still light by artillery standards, but I am torn between that and making a new primitive bow to my own measure for instinctive field shooting in the NFAS.
I don't get out much these days, but I did win an Xmas Pudding yesterday at Spirit of Sherwood with a tolerable but not outstanding peg average (16.2 adjusted) using a borrowed bow that I made quite some time ago for a friend who has much shorter arms than I.
Still, I am glad to see this healthy but tentative step towards addressing what until now has appeared to be an unpopular topic.
Rod.
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So what your saying is that because you/or he cant do it know one can??
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