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outcaste:
Just to add that the 70#+ weight for the EWBS was decided upon to differentiate from the BLBS which shoots up to 70#.
Regards,
Alistair
Peter-t123:
--- Quote from: adb on March 31, 2013, 01:40:35 am ---OK, well if you're not a new member anymore (past your first year) and you're a male between 16 and 60, to shoot in an EWBS event, you need a 70#@32" bow, which is >74", has no grip, is shot off the fist, and which is tillered in a circular fashion.
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the thing is, you dont... that is what is annoying me, someone in another thread is being given advice about whether their bow would be allowed to be shot by two people who arent even in the society and dont know what is allowed
Peter-t123:
--- Quote from: WillS on March 31, 2013, 06:48:24 am ---
This is why you can't really use EWBS requirements to say "thats a warbow" and "that isn't". Its just one society with one set of rules. I think that as long as the bow is tillered to 32" (in order to give maximum penetrative force to the only war arrows ever found) and its heavy enough to do that then you can call it a warbow.
Just because one ship was found with bows that didn't have handles (at the very end of the warbow's military life) does not mean that's how they were made throughout the whole of history. Yes, certain bows wouldn't be allowed at EWBS shoots today, but nobody can say whether the EWBS would have been laughed off the battlefield if they turned up with what they think are "warbows" only to find that they had completely missed something that the medieval bowyers considered crucial to the construction of the weapon.
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no one in the society claims that that one sentence is what they believe represents a medieval bow (that isnt what they think) and you are trying to change the sentence to say that is what it says.
Peter-t123:
--- Quote from: outcaste on March 31, 2013, 07:00:46 am ---Just to add that the 70#+ weight for the EWBS was decided upon to differentiate from the BLBS which shoots up to 70#.
Regards,
Alistair
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this is the correct reason, that is as far as it goes. no one has said that we believe that medieval bows were 70lb which is what people seem to be trying to twist that sentence to say
WillS:
--- Quote from: Peter-t123 ---no one in the society claims that that one sentence is what they believe represents a medieval bow (that isnt what they think) and you are trying to change the sentence to say that is what it says.
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You should read more carefully. Nowhere did I mention that the English Warbow Society think that all medieval bows would comply with their society rules.
They are a society, therefore they need some form of guideline to stop people trying to join with 45# horsebows. The society guidelines are a separate thing to what individual people think medieval bows might have been like.
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