[Overtaxed]

I would suggest a bow....

Oh I could do a lot of damage with one of those! Only it's not always certain to whom the damage would be done. :) But I'm pretty good with a BB gun.

[osagebowman]

Even the English Longbow Archers carried secondary weapons, a short sword and commonly a hammer. A bow is just a really nice stick when you run out of arrows. The bowmen would pound a six or eight foot long stake into the ground then sharpen it with the sword or ax. The rows of sharpened stakes provided some safety from the mounted knights. The bodkin point was armor piercing at ranges of 200 yards. The pull on an English War Bow was 120 lbs and up. The average hunting bow nowadays is about fifty to sixty lbs pull. I'll quit before the reader's eyes glaze over. :-) dvp