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What is a Warbow ?

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makenzie71:
Too broad a thing to answer simply.  As said, it's a bow designed for war...not a specific type.  An example being that you would see larger men with heavy bows on the open field raining on targets hundreds of yards away, but you would see nothing of the type on top of the towers and walls shooting in close quarters between battlements.

Phil Rees:
So ....if a "warbow" is defined by it's characteristics .... could you define the following as a warbow ...

self yew, deep d section, draws full compass with no riser handle section, side nocks, no arrow plate and draws around 85lbs....


..now if I was to say the bow described above is dated 1770, has a velvet braid bound hand grip and is clearly a recreational target bow, it satisfies all the criteria of a warbow but isn't.... ??? ??? ???

alanesq:
I would think that recreational bows would originally have been the same bows used for war, but as time passed and they were no longer actually used for war they slowly mutated into the target English longbows that are used today
so rather like in the evolution of a species, bows slowly changes over time and there is not really any single bow you can point to when the change actually happened?

BTW - If you have any pics of the nocks would it be ok to put them up on my sidenock web page ?
www.alanesq.com/sidenock.htm

Phil Rees:

--- Quote from: alanesq on May 22, 2010, 04:14:23 pm ---I would think that recreational bows would originally have been the same bows used for war, but as time passed and they were no longer actually used for war they slowly mutated into the target English longbows that are used today
so rather like in the evolution of a species, bows slowly changes over time and there is not really any single bow you can point to when the change actually happened?

BTW - If you have any pics of the nocks would it be ok to put them up on my sidenock web page ?
www.alanesq.com/sidenock.htm


--- End quote ---

Alanesq ...the bow described above is in my own collection and 100% satisfies all the definition criteria of what is a "warbow" should be. It represents exactly the transition point between military and recreational bows, that is it's post Tudor and pre Waring and Buchanan.

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