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Mark Stretton 200lb Guinness World Record blog

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WillS:
I'm sure many of you guys have seen this by now, but for those who haven't, or for future reference, here's a blog written about Mark Strettons Guinness World Record attempt, shooting a 200lb bow.  Covers everything from diet and exercise to the bow used and the details of the record itself, and some of it is written by Mark himself. 

http://markstretton.blogspot.co.uk

Del the cat:
Excellent!
The training regime and exercises are V interesting.
But the pictures of his breakfast just made me hungry :laugh:
Del
(As a point of pedantry... the delay between shots would have been to his chagrin, not that of the crowd...  :-[
Gotta learn to speak proper, innit?)

WillS:
Nah, you don't gotta learn to do nuffin proper when you shoots a whopper like what he does.

HoorayHorace:
200lb of bow? Wow!  :o

I take it that this was not standard for longbows during the medieval age?

Is 100lb not heavy then? I can get 80lb back to 30.

WillS:
The lightest bows on the Mary Rose (and therefore potentially throughout the medieval period) are currently estimated to be around 110-120lbs.  The average weight is around 150lbs, with bows up to 200lb thought to have been on board.

There are a few perfect replicas of the biggest bows found that would have a draw weight of 196lbs, so 100lbs is considerably light in relation.

If you look at the arrows found, and various heads found throughout history, most are half inch in diameter.  To get a half inch arrow to travel around 220yards (medieval bowshot, give or take 20yards) you need something in the range of 110lbs.  And that's the absolute minimum.

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