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Main Discussion Area => English Warbow => Topic started by: Yeomanbowman on February 05, 2015, 05:15:28 pm

Title: Want to see a 400+ year old warbow drawn?
Post by: Yeomanbowman on February 05, 2015, 05:15:28 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b051h0gy/the-mary-rose-a-timewatch-guide

Not sure you'll be able to get this outside of the UK  :(

Title: Re: Want to see a 400+ year old warbow drawn?
Post by: adb on February 05, 2015, 06:49:47 pm

You're right, won't work. What is it? A Mary Rose bow on the tiller? (But they're closer to 500 years old).

Title: Re: Want to see a 400+ year old warbow drawn?
Post by: outcaste on February 06, 2015, 02:51:23 am

For those who can't see the content, It's a programme that looks back to the recovery of the MR and its finds. One segment sees Robert Hardy in the early eighties (making the bows at the time approximately 430 odd years old) testing an actual MR bow to destruction and later an interesting comment by the presenter Dan Snow, regarding the relative strength of the strings governing the draw weight of the bows.

Alistair

Title: Re: Want to see a 400+ year old warbow drawn?
Post by: ceolith on February 07, 2015, 08:12:16 am

Here on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLYf4rRO4Yc

Title: Re: Want to see a 400+ year old warbow drawn?
Post by: Dag on February 07, 2015, 06:21:03 pm

Thanks for the YT link Blacksmith!

Title: Re: Want to see a 400+ year old warbow drawn?
Post by: Hrothgar on February 07, 2015, 09:34:33 pm

Interesting article, thanks for posting.

Title: Re: Want to see a 400+ year old warbow drawn?
Post by: JackCrafty on February 07, 2015, 10:30:07 pm

Fantastic.  8)

Title: Re: Want to see a 400+ year old warbow drawn?
Post by: Renacs on February 08, 2015, 08:01:14 pm

  archery and diving my two favorite hobbies of all time.

Title: Re: Want to see a 400+ year old warbow drawn?
Post by: turmoiler on February 11, 2015, 07:25:21 am

Hello,

the programme is great but the video quality in youtube is quite crappy, if you want to see the video directly from the bbc you can use a plugin or addon for your web browser if it is firefox or chrome (and safary if i remember well). This addon is called hola and with it you can choose the country from you are seeing the video so you can see it as you were in the uk. http://hola.org/ (http://hola.org/)

I hope this can help you
Sergi