04-20-2005, 02:23 PM
Ave,
I agree, I would be willing to bet that not only was it NOT a belly bow, but also not fired from the shoulder in the hand-held mode, although it is small enough to do so. The theory that it could have been a type meant to be mounted on a naval vessel, or even on a wagon or something similar is an interesting one, and very plausible. I just find it hard to conceive that this was cocked like a belly bow, because as the gentleman pointed out in a previous post, it would seem that the slider was too small and fragile to withstand the pressure of being cocked in that manner. A weapon such as this (or any seige weapon for that matter) was probably pretty expensive to produce, so they would not have used it in a manner that could break it or otherwise damage it.
Like I said earlier, I am merely speculating on all of this, I guess we won't know some of these things for sure until it is published. :wink:
I agree, I would be willing to bet that not only was it NOT a belly bow, but also not fired from the shoulder in the hand-held mode, although it is small enough to do so. The theory that it could have been a type meant to be mounted on a naval vessel, or even on a wagon or something similar is an interesting one, and very plausible. I just find it hard to conceive that this was cocked like a belly bow, because as the gentleman pointed out in a previous post, it would seem that the slider was too small and fragile to withstand the pressure of being cocked in that manner. A weapon such as this (or any seige weapon for that matter) was probably pretty expensive to produce, so they would not have used it in a manner that could break it or otherwise damage it.
Like I said earlier, I am merely speculating on all of this, I guess we won't know some of these things for sure until it is published. :wink:
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