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alanesq:
--- Quote from: yankeemongiat on February 13, 2008, 09:54:23 pm ---Mark Stretton set the world record for a longbow at 200lb draw weight with Guinness world records a few years back. Den Erickson may well be able to shoot such draw weights but certainly does not hold the world record, to claim to be and to actualy be are two entirely different things.
I can still not find any listing of Stretton in the Guinness Book....or on their Website to verify this...can you find it and post it???
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I went to my local library today to check this out
turns out the book no longer lists all records, its just a selection of the most "interesting" ones
the web site states it is only a small selection of records you can search there
it seems the only way to find out is to text the question in
see details at their website - guinnessworldrecords.com (after you search for something)
this usually costs £1 but you get 2 tries for free
so I gave this a go and sure enough the reply soon came back "Mark Stretton - 200lbs"
So anyone who can pull a heavier bow the record is still there to be broken (details on the website how to claim the record)
alanesq:
--- Quote from: Rod on February 12, 2008, 12:37:44 pm ---It only matters if it can hit....
Perhaps you might like to consider the same challenge I put to Mark and others in the heavy bow community. Though some have agreed that a benchmark in accuracy would be useful, no-one thus far has made the effort to set such a benchmark.
The proposal was to shoot 72 x consecutive arrows in sets of three or six at 100 yards at the standard 48" target face. (FITA 122cm) and to record the number of hits and the score on 5 zone scoring (Gold 9,Red 7,Blue 5,Black 3 & White 1)
The general reaction has been that target shooting is irrelevant, despite the fact that target shooting is historically an offshoot of practice for military shooting.
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I shoot a 120lb bow at target archery (although I am very much a beginner so not very good at it)
but weather permitting on Sunday I will give it a try if you want?
The problem with this though, if someone else posts a score using a 130lb bow how do you compare the two ?
As Nick was saying though, warbows are all about getting a heavy arrow as far as you can and whilst accuracy is obviously important it is not everything (unlike other types of archery)
so I think for this to be of interest to warbow archers we really need some way of not only measuring how accurate the arrow was but also how much "stopping power" it delivered ?
btw - what score would be considered "respectable" for a standard target archer using English longbow ?
nick1346:
--- Quote from: alanesq on February 14, 2008, 06:54:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: yankeemongiat on February 13, 2008, 09:54:23 pm ---Mark Stretton set the world record for a longbow at 200lb draw weight with Guinness world records a few years back. Den Erickson may well be able to shoot such draw weights but certainly does not hold the world record, to claim to be and to actualy be are two entirely different things.
I can still not find any listing of Stretton in the Guinness Book....or on their Website to verify this...can you find it and post it???
--- End quote ---
I went to my local library today to check this out
turns out the book no longer lists all records, its just a selection of the most "interesting" ones
the web site states it is only a small selection of records you can search there
it seems the only way to find out is to text the question in
see details at their website - guinnessworldrecords.com (after you search for something)
this usually costs £1 but you get 2 tries for free
so I gave this a go and sure enough the reply soon came back "Mark Stretton - 200lbs"
So anyone who can pull a heavier bow the record is still there to be broken (details on the website how to claim the record)
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Nice one Alan! Seems your attention to detail cuts through the 'have it now' attitude of the net! :D
deerhunter97370:
Ok, Historicly War archers didnt stand on a battle feild alone lbbing arrows at a charge of calvery. right so wouldnt a good mark for war bows be a group of archers shooting at a target. Joel
boze:
Well done Alan! Nick, great try at trying to explain the shooting of a warbow. Believe what I say that I try everyday with the target archers that I work with.
I am also a beginner warbow enthusiast, shooting the minimum weight that would be considered a warbow. I do understand the concept of what we call "arrow rain", with three thousand archers shooting, can you imagine the deadly effect?
I regularly shoot my warbow at a 3D deer target with what I consider satisfactory results. I also find it much more difficult to shoot at a target one hundred and fifty yards away using the roving style, and consider myself happy when i get within twenty yards of it. In my opinion (and everyone knows how opinions are), leave it to the English to make the rules. After all, it is called the English Warbow.
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