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1 posted on 07/30/2015 11:19:03 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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If they had all been liberals, then the arrows and barbs would have been unlimited.

ba dum pish


2 posted on 07/30/2015 11:23:31 AM PDT by panzerkamphwageneinz
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I read a story in Scientific American - it must have been more than thirty years ago - about archeological evidence surrounding the manufacture of arrows in feudal Europe.

The authors advanced the argument that arrows were the first manufactured article that was produced on an assembly line.

They said there were arrow factories having production in the millions of units.


3 posted on 07/30/2015 11:23:51 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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The military-industrial complex...


4 posted on 07/30/2015 11:23:52 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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I’ve often wondered where the American Indians got all their arrows.................


5 posted on 07/30/2015 11:24:16 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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Any idea how many arrows were used at Agincourt? I read that they archers there would go among the French dead and gather their previously fired arrows after each French fallback.


6 posted on 07/30/2015 11:24:42 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Chris Stevens won't be running for president.)
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Just gather up and shoot the enemy’s arrows back at him.


7 posted on 07/30/2015 11:25:42 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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They used to be adventurers, just like you, then then they took an arrow in the knee.


10 posted on 07/30/2015 11:26:44 AM PDT by dfwgator
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12 posted on 07/30/2015 11:27:12 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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They didn’t pull them out and reuse them like Daryl does?


13 posted on 07/30/2015 11:27:42 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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We simply don’t understand how good ancient archers were. We are now relearning their secrets. This Dane is making it happen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zGnxeSbb3g

He’s the best “real combat” archer in the world.


16 posted on 07/30/2015 11:30:22 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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“Longbowmen might be issued with three sheaves of 24 arrows “

Coincidentally (?), in the video game Skyrim, arrows are crafted in lots of 24.


17 posted on 07/30/2015 11:31:34 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Voting is acting white.)
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19 posted on 07/30/2015 11:32:28 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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Arrows are recyclable. Shoot them back.


20 posted on 07/30/2015 11:33:33 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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Tracer rounds.


21 posted on 07/30/2015 11:34:45 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Wouldn’t the Roman Empire had need of these, and many other things, on a scale that would dwarf anything in Europe at that time?


22 posted on 07/30/2015 11:37:47 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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Bass Pro Shop?


24 posted on 07/30/2015 11:39:58 AM PDT by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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They bought great lots from Viking businessmen? The Far Side mooning photo: Vikings-businessv2 Vikings-businessv2.jpg
31 posted on 07/30/2015 11:53:53 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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With all of those arrows in the air, the French fought in the shade.


33 posted on 07/30/2015 11:59:14 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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The length and spine of the arrow depended on the weight and draw of the bow, but I guess accuracy was secondary to flight volume like smooth bore muskets versus rifled long arms.


43 posted on 07/30/2015 12:11:11 PM PDT by ZULU (Democrats are paleosocialists)
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Mongols used arrows quite literally by the millions.


46 posted on 07/30/2015 12:16:08 PM PDT by zek157
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