From: Martin Laurie (MLaurie@compuserve.com)
Date: Wed 07 Oct 1998 - 22:55:22 EEST
Richard Crawley makes the point:
>The muscles used to shoot a high poundage longbow are a unique
>combination - I know that if I take up my longbow tommorrow and shoot
>for any length of time I will ache in places I didn't know I had places
the
>day after! =
Indeed yes. The Longbowmen of the Hundred years war were actually
physically deformed by their trade with warped left arms and upper backs.=
The pull on such bows, not the difficulty of accuracy was the big problem=
=2E
A lighter bow was actually more accurate at longer ranges given the
Longbows
very long, drag inducing arrow. However, the Longbow was capable of
penetrating heavy armour at shorter ranges which a lighter bow was not an=
d =
thus its pull which was on the edge of human capability to use on a
frequent basis. =
Basically all the english longbowmen probably had humps like Richard III.=
Martin Laurie
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