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sagitarius boemoru:
Isnt galling the lightest usefull against living, even if lightly clad force? It is something which should give you option to prolong the time you can keep the enemy in your reach, though it shall probably still be effective if it hits somebody who does not cover and it needs to be strong enough to withstand the same bow as your 1000-1200 grn arrow....

That said I have shot 600 grn bodkined arrow with 5´´ fletching way over 300 yards out of 100# bow made by Marc StLuis. Hence shooting that from quality yew bow at 330# + and up to 350 or some should not be that much problem considering that I m neither strongest nor best longbowman awailble, even if we accept 125# as median weight of bows in latter period.

Jaro

ChrisD:
Jaro!  Glad to see you are posting again!
Thats exactly what what I would have thought from reading and from other posts - a lighter arrow to do as you say - gall the opposition. It was recently suggested elsewhere that 'galling arrows were used for hunting and not warfare' - which seemed an odd idea to me as does the idea of a 1500-2000grn arrow for all distances.

I would tend to agree with Lloyd that 1000grn seems like it would have been about right given the size of the longer MR shafts, which as you say would cause merry hell amongst horses and the lightly clad or unwary.

My bow is an osage/hickory which is 80lb at 28" but which I have recently been drawing to 32 - I get 250yds with with 500-600grn arrows, but I'm not such a good archer and the bow is quite new and I'm told more will come from it. The interesting thing is that 1000grn arrows with 8" fletches travel only 30yds less.

C

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