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Medieval broadheads for hunting?

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Strelets:
In reply to agd68, English hunting heads from the 13th century onwards were nearly all barbed.  Salisbury museum has a large number of arrowheads excavated from Clarendon Palace, a medieval royal hunting lodge. A few were armour-piercing bodkins (probably from the royal guard) but most were large barbed heads.  Clarendon palace was in the middle of England's largest deer park, so there is no doubt about the purpose of these heads.  Some of the heads were very heavy by modern standards; I weighed several in the museum's collection and one weighed 526 grains.

Ed Brooks:

--- Quote from: aaron on December 30, 2015, 09:37:42 pm ---not legal in Washington state due to barbs, but I think any SHARP reasonably-sized broadhead that hits the lungs broadside would do the job. The wide one above would be too wide for my taste, but the narrow one would be awesome. The key is good steel and sharp, and about 3 times as long as it is wide. And of course well tuned to the bow.

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Aaron, here in WA they had to get rid of the no barbed point law, with the mechanical now ok to use. Happy Hunting. Ed

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