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Warbow speed shooting
adb:
Good shooting :). However, to be true "warbow" shooting, you need to extend your draw to a full warbow draw of 31-32". Pull back past your ear, to full draw, and then see how many you can loose in a minute. Here's a full draw pic.
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ken75:
man adb it looks like that hurts !
aero86:
how do you do that? i mean that has got to launch them further than a north korean missile!
adb:
;D ;D ;D... how do I do what? Shoot this bow... I don't mean to be sarcastic, but it's like anything else... practice. And no, they don't quite go as far as any missiles. :D :D :D I was getting 190-200 meters with an EWBS standard arrow, 31.5" in length, and 52 grams weight. Really quite average, actually.
Also, it doesn't hurt, contrary to the expression on my face!
bumppo:
I found this in "Agincourt" 2005 by Juliet Barker, page 303, may be of interest regarding speed shooting.
She reports a reference in the 1415 exchequers 2nd quarter financial records regarding the Duke of York's men after the siege of Harfleur:
"two days before the departure from Harfleur, his numbers had been reduced to eighty men-at-arms and 296 archers (four of the latter had been struck off because they could not fire the required minimum ten aimed arrows per minute."
Interesting to think that the medieval archer of Henry V time shot ten plus arrows per minute, and it seems they were regularly tested to make sure they could do it. If they were found unable to shoot ten rounds a minute they were sacked from active service.
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