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To: KC_Lion; Plainsman; Tax-chick; GraceG; SevenofNine; Zionist Conspirator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr_1z3GwxQk

scholagladiatoria covered this topic weeks ago. It’s all for show with a child’s draw weight of 10-20#. Warbows and war arrows are more powerful and more difficult to shoot.


4 posted on 01/24/2015 5:51:41 AM PST by Azeem (There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo.)
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To: Azeem
[A]t Agincourt, the English archers of the time could loose 15 arrows a minute, and with 5000 archers at this battle, they were said to have released 75,000 arrows in one minute, a true arrow storm that did block out the light of the sun.

I've read estimates of between 500,000 and a million arrows used by the English at Agincourt.

11 posted on 01/24/2015 6:22:21 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (This is known as "bad luck". - Robert A. Heinlein)
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I think you missed the part of the Anderson video where he puts three arrows through chain mail armor with his bow. While it’s moving. Don’t think he’s using a very light bow. Not using a heavy bow, either, but although he says he been doing it for years, he also, according to the video, knows he’s no professional archer, like they were back when.

I did a little heavy armor & combat archery in the SCA several decades ago, and I think those folks would just crap themselves if he were to go play with them. ;)


53 posted on 01/25/2015 9:06:05 PM PST by Old Student (Do NOT make me get out the torches and pitchforks...)
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