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FourWinds F
FourWinds May 14, 2005 07:45:24
Replying to fitzcoraldo

60 lb pull on a bow is at the top end of what a fully grown, very fit man could pull today, so yes it is rather powerful. However, some people reckon that the longbow 'proper' could have been up to 120 lb pull, which is why the medieval archers started training as kids.

W Wiggy
Wiggy May 16, 2005 09:22:28
Replying to FourWinds

I was told as a kid that every English man of the period around the 100 years war was compelled to practice archery every sunday afternoon. Is this correct?
I also read somewhere that the exhumed skeletons of archers from this period have almost freakish, superhuman bone density in the shoulders and arms.

M m6
m6 Nov 27, 2005 15:28:35
Replying to FourWinds

i should like to see such an historic bow - presumably some like this were recovered from the Mary Rose?