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We are staring an International Primitive Flight Shooting Federation
meanewood:
This topic seems to be raising lots of hotly debated issues discused on other threads.
The first thing to establish is, is the proposed class for Warbows - Medieval and Tudor or just Tudor or just Mary Rose Tudor or Mary Rose Tudor excepting bow X1-3.
As soon as you start to set guidelines, you start ruling out bows and arrows that we know existed!
For example : If you were to apply the ewbs livery arrow specs to the actual arrows found on the Mary Rose, the vast majority would be rejected for being to short!
Another example would be if you start insisting on horn nocks, you rule out any meanewood bows made with self nocks.
The Luttrell Psalter clearly shows a bow with self nocks.
I think It would be a good idea to get a warbow class for flight shooting but for gods sake don't get Warbow guys to come up with the guidelines, we are experts in arguing about our passion!
Yeomanbowman:
--- Quote from: meanewood on February 05, 2015, 07:06:48 pm ---I think It would be a good idea to get a warbow class for flight shooting but for gods sake don't get Warbow guys to come up with the guidelines, we are experts in arguing about our passion!
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:-X ;D
brian:
i thought the main purpose of the heavy bow [war bow] was to hit what you were aiming at, iam sure the medieval didnt get his knickers in a twist worrying about how far his arrow went as long as it found its mark . ::) ::)
adb:
--- Quote from: brian on February 06, 2015, 02:02:52 pm --- i thought the main purpose of the heavy bow [war bow] was to hit what you were aiming at, iam sure the medieval didnt get his knickers in a twist worrying about how far his arrow went as long as it found its mark . ::) ::)
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No, not really. Warbows in period were massed volley weapons at distance. Medieval artillery, if you will. 5000 archers (as at Azincourt) with a sustained mass volley of 8-10 arrows/minute/archer was a devastating weapon. That's 40,000-45,000 arrows/minute. Some of the arrows found their mark. Accuracy was more vital at close range (<50 yards). Knowing the distance at which you could make contact with your enemy would have been vital. Why bother wasting expensive arrows, if they were too far away? Archers in period were expected to attain certain minimum standards to make muster. Distance was one of them.
I have seen it done, but I have never hit the mark at 200 yards with a warbow. Within a foot, but never actually hitting the target.
DC:
If they missed by more than a foot, they hit the next guy. It's all good.
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