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war arrows of the mary rose?
adb:
It's my belief that arrows then are like ammo now. All 5.56mm ammo will shoot out of all govt issue military weapons chambered for it. Yes? I'm not military, but I think that's how it works. Will all artillery shells shoot out of all artillery pieces of the same caliber?
But... as mentioned, we'll never know!
WillS:
Aye, but modern ammo is machined. Arrows were made of natural materials that as we know vary from one to another. If modern ammo had variables, wouldn't soldiers pick the bullets that best shot from their weapon if there was the possibility of doing so?
adb:
Yes... they probably would. I'm just wondering how they'd go about doing that? The arrows from the Mary Rose that I saw (or more correctly the arrow shafts) all looked about the same.
WillS:
Good point. I reckon the 400 year soaking the arrows had probably distorted the appearance of them somewhat - did you get a chance to handle any? When I did, they didn't feel like any arrows I've held before.
I'm assuming they wouldn't have carried spine calculators with them, but I've heard people can tell rough spine just by flexing an arrow shaft. I'm almost certain that due to relying on the bow and the accuracy of an arrow to stay alive (whether for hunting or warfare) they'd have done whatever they could to match arrows to bows.
All that being said - when you're dealing with mass produced arrows and mass produced bows, there's a limit as to how far you can go. Maybe the first volley of arrows were hand picked by the individual archers, but the moment people came round handing out sheaves during a battle all of that would have gone out the window.
AH:
--- Quote from: WillS on April 26, 2013, 08:48:34 pm ---Good point. I reckon the 400 year soaking the arrows had probably distorted the appearance of them somewhat - did you get a chance to handle any? When I did, they didn't feel like any arrows I've held before.
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What do you mean "Didn't feel like any arrows You'd ever held? can you be a bit more descriptive?
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