Impressive. Most impressive.
The Mrs was up for an archery scholarship, but rather gave her time to our daughter.
Very impressive. How much “pull” on that bow?
A friend of mine practices archery in his basement by snuffing out candles at 30 feet. He is a good archer but not good enough to compete.
Just amazing. This is a guy who could take a bow and arrow to a gunfight and prevail.
I shoot my compound with fingers, thumb down. I do carry a release though I don’t use it much.
I started with a release but I would always forget or lose them, so I said ef it and went to fingers.
The military arrows came in at about 750 grains and were good to about 400 yards. At Crecy they faced knights dressed in chainmail and were very effective.
I shoot large bullets in the 400 to 500 grain range and 750 grains is a very scary number. The projectile just keeps going after hitting the target.
It’s long past time to ban multi arrows in the draw hand. Someone needs to pass a law.
www.instructables.com has several designs for pole lathes, lathes develop in the middle ages driven with foot power. They are very simple.
I hope Lars writes a book showing the old techniques that seem to be so effective. Probably not a lot of sales but it would preserve the techniques.
Can't remember where, or what I was reading, but I do remember it being a crude hand drawing(s) of the minimum requirements for a archery practice field, and during the time period, there was one just about every other block, in all of the villages / towns, and the requirement that the men in the village had to go on say every Saturday, (can't remember the actual day required) to train. Also gave an age requirement(s), on who was required to attend.
Is he as accurate as Howard Hill?
WOW!!
archery
Dang that guy is good.
At Agincourt, 70 years later, things were different. For one thing, the French knights were on foot. Much has been made about French contempt for English villains who would stoop to archery, and so were unworthy of a mounted charge. Far more likely is the fact that horses, even armored as they could be, had been proven to be more vulnerable, even more so as the range began to close. A knight who had crashed to the mud from horseback was helpless, and if he couldn't offer ransom was "given grace", i.e. dispatched with a dagger through the visor. And so at Agincourt the final French approach was on foot. Through the mud. In armor. Against longbows that could penetrate that armor at the very least from 50 yards on in and likely more than that. (And after riding down their own Genoese crossbowmen). The French learned from Crecy all right but they learned the wrong lessons.
Sure, the longbow was deadly at range, but it got deadlier as the range closed, and the French had to get within hacking distance before they could even start to fight. Nor could they flank the English formation; in fact, other archers on either English flank were firing in enfilade. It had to be a straight-on approach into the face of massed missile weaponry from three sides. The more you study the battle the more horrifying that is.