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I finally got my Grozer 70 pound "assyrian" bow! Of course it`s core is made of fiberglass and "assyrian" isn`t exactly very roman :wink: !
Anyway it is a very beautiful bow (covered with eelskin...) and I can`t wait to go shooting with it!
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All you need are wings now, and you can be CUPID for Halloween :wink:
Awesome looking bow BTW
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Nice bow!
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Great video, I have seen this before! I would like to have a bow next which can stop a truck :lol: !
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That is a sweet looking bow; the eel skin is quite cool looking
On the video and medieval archery:
That video is not so good for many reasons. 1) They loosed the arrow from a range that a horseman would he 1 second from running you down. 2) Metal plate was flat, armor has curves and is worked hot causing it to harden a giving it a surface to deflect arrows 3) Many 15th century and later armors where also hardened giving more protection.
Most scholars on the subject of medieval longbows agree it was an awesome command and control weapon useful at denying areas with the threat of a storm of arrows, how ever written accounts of the time and much better quality test, including the royal armories own test, have more than shown that armor was effective against arrows in the age of the full harness. There are written accounts of men opening their helmets and being stuck in the face, not wearing a bevor and struck in the face, arrows finding the gaps in the armor and piercing maille, arrows cracking armor in gaps and overlaps (Sir John Paston Jr took a wound in the arm where several arrows opened a gap on the line where the vambrace was hinged). There are also many accounts of men wearing jacks covered in arrows and not even injured, men in full armor walking through a hail of arrows and so on.
If the medieval arrow was able to go right through armor then how would anyone live in a medieval battle, the current thought on Agincourt is there were 12000 French and a million arrows loosed on them. Most of the French didn't even die via arrow, hell the French killed many of their own men for retreating, the cavalry charged through their crossbowmen for being cowards.
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There's just one problem with all the tests etc which suggest that the longbow was ineffective against armour. That is: it continued to be used, even as armour became heavier and fuller. During the early sixteenth century armour reached its peak in terms of both combining protection with overall coverage of the body, and yet the Mary Rose, from exactly that period, was manned by numerous archers. Similarly, Castles like Pendennis and St Mawes were essentially blockhouses to mount cannons, but they were also manned by archers with longbows. Ships of the line and up to the minutes castles represent a heavy investment both in terms of cost and new technology. In this context, what would be the point in stocking them with weapons which were next to useless in terms of the warfare of the time. At some level, the longbow must have been thought of as a very worthwhile weapon by people who knew a lot more about the realities of warfare at the time than anyone today does. Therefore, if modern tests suggest that it was ineffective, what are our modern testers missing?
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Well full plate armor was supposedly EXTREMELY expensive- so the vast majority of foot soldiers didn't have it and were thus still susceptible to arrows...
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That's a very beautiful bow. Here's my el-cheepo bow that I bought to reenact with.
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