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What is "Warbow"
mullet:
Bob,The Caloosa's at the time of DeSota were recorded as shooting bows in the 90 to 120# weight.The Caloosa's average height was 6' tall.
sagitarius boemoru:
Simon, there is alot of research about price of the bows and price of excellent quality foreign yew bow, english yew (about half or one third of the said) and also elm or other wood bows is known. There are still records and paychecks which along the money describe preciselly nature of product bought.
Jaro
duffontap:
Ishi's hunting bows were three fingers and his war bows were four fingers. Add 1/3 to 45# and you get 60#. Not method that's exactly guaranteed to be accurate though.
Al Herin says Cherokee war bows were about 70#.
J. D. Duff
duffontap:
--- Quote from: ChrisD on May 24, 2007, 07:12:15 pm ---For sure J.D your shorter bows are a good draweight - but then they would be being shorter and the Mary Rose bows tend towards the 80inch mark.
--- End quote ---
My bow is about 1/2" under average length. I purposely made it as close to average as I could.
J. D. Duff
Justin Snyder:
Most of my info comes from encyclopedias. I read that the Cherokee war bows were longbows and could be as much as 80-90 pounds. After reflection, I know that the statement in the encyclopedia about Native American warbows being heavier than their hunting bows must be somewhat flawed. We know that they used sinew backed high weight short bows for hunting from horseback. Some of these bows were reportedly 90# or more. That would make the 70# warbow lighter than the 90# hunting bow. ??? Oh well, not the first time I have read something in a book that was flawed. :-\ Justin
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