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Peter-t123:
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--- Quote from: Ian. on January 29, 2013, 11:14:31 am ---I did write a long post but I'll just leave with this, your ideas are fallacy and you facts are about as water tight as the current state of the Mary Rose.
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Hi Ian
I didn't want to continue this discussion but you have not told me exactly what you disagree with.
So let me clarify, I'm talking about bows used for warfare in medieval England, like the ones found on the 'Mary Rose' and illustrated on the cover of Robert Harvey's book 'Longbow', not anything else! If you want to refer to these as Warbows that's fine.
Now I expressed the view that I'm sure many of these 'Warbows' were probably made shorter than 72 inches long, do you disagree with this?
I also tried to make the point that if you make two of these bows, same style, profile and length and one has a draw weight of 69lbs and the other 71lbs , it does not mean they are different to the point you need to call one a 'Longbow' and the other a 'Warbow'. Do you disagree with this?
Now I'm not assosiated with the BLBS or the EWBS, so if there is any 'bagagge' being hauled around this discussion, it's not by me!
Stuart
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this 70lb thing is annoying me, people see a single sentence on the ewbs site saying they prefer people to shoot bows over 70lb and you interpret it to say that we think 70lb is some sort of magical line between a 'longbow' and a 'warbow', there is no where it says that.
--- Quote from: bubby on January 28, 2013, 07:16:58 pm ---I love it when you warbow guys get in these "discusions" and everyone gets all huffy >:D
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lol what warbow guys
adb:
I would agree with the "70# thing". A warbow can be a warbow below 70#, depending on how it's made, how it's tillered, and how it's shot. On the flip side, I've made plenty of longbows over 70#, and I call them longbows because of the way they're tillered and shot.
However, institutions like the EWBS have to draw a line in the sand somewhere. Their specs on what they consider a 'warbow' are listed on their site... 70# (for men 16-60), >74", circular tiller to 32", and shot off the fist.
I included a pic of a longbow I finished recently. It's 74" ntn, 75#@28", and has a leather grip and arrow shelf. To me, it's a longbow, not a warbow.
Ian.:
That's a very pretty bow, is it one piece of Maple or a tri-lam?
Yeomanbowman:
Very pretty, indeed. I love the 'creamy' backing against the 'honey' yew!
To find the origin of the 71lb 'delineation' one must look to the BL-BS as that is their cut off point for allowable draw-weight.
Peter-t123:
--- Quote from: adb on March 30, 2013, 08:21:07 pm ---I would agree with the "70# thing". A warbow can be a warbow below 70#, depending on how it's made, how it's tillered, and how it's shot.
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how?
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