English longbow - Wikipedia
Learn about the English longbow, a powerful medieval type of bow used by both the English and the Welsh in war and hunting. Find out its length, draw weight, construction, materials, arrows, use and performance, history, tactics, and social importance.
Longbows/Warbows in the early 1500s - Blogger
2015年8月1日 · The Longbow or Warbow seems to always generate quite a lot of historical debate, even whether to call it a Longbow or not has caused argument! I have been interested in it's use in the early 1500s and was keen to paint up …
English Longbow - The Reliable Assualt Rifle of the Middle Ages
Learn about the English longbow, the reliable assault rifle of the Middle Ages, and its effectiveness in battles such as Crecy, Poitiers, and Agincourt. Find out how to make, shoot, and compare it with the French crossbow, and what draw weights and ranges it could achieve.
Warbow - Archery Historian
Learn about the warbow, a historical bow used in warfare with high draw weight and military design. Explore the English longbow, the Manchu bow, the Japanese yumi, and more examples of warbows from different cultures and periods.
The development of the longbow in late medieval England and ...
2012年1月3日 · This article responds to the revisionists, arguing based on archaeological, iconographic and textual evidence that the proper longbow was a weapon of extraordinary power, and was qualitatively different from – and more effective than – the shorter self-bows that were the norm in England (and western Europe generally) before the fourteenth century.
Medieval bowmaking - what materials, lengths and bow pull ... - Reddit
2017年12月25日 · The longer, 140cm bows, based on a speculative reconstruction by Lars Persson of the English Warbow Society, will reach around 140m with a ~30g arrow. However, that bow was using laburnum and drew to 28". Laburnum allows for a longer draw length for a given bow length , so a yew bow would draw slightly shorter, perhaps 26". The range of a yew ...
War Bows - The Historical Association
2019年8月22日 · A detailed and well-illustrated scholarly work on four types of war bows, including the longbow, by Mike Loades. Learn about the design, effectiveness, history and logistics of these instruments of warfare in medieval and foreign campaigns.
The English Longbow: Machine Gun Of The Medieval Era
2019年4月15日 · Learn how the English longbow, a six-foot bow made of yew wood, became a deadly weapon in medieval warfare. Find out its effective range, draw weight, arrowheads, and role in famous battles like Agincourt and Crecy.
Longbow Draw Weights - Medieval Warbows and Longbows
2020年1月20日 · Learn about the draw weights of medieval and Tudor longbows based on evidence from the Mary Rose shipwreck and other sources. Compare the arguments of the 'Heavy Bow' and 'Light Bow' brigades and the challenges of shooting such bows.
How far could an English war bow shoot? - History Stack Exchange
2013年3月18日 · In the days of yore the yeomans and peasants who were the guys that used the warbow, shot at a distance of about 200 yards. they were accurate at that distance to a degree. In war, at that distance they were only expected to be able to get an arrow within a few feet, once the distance got to around 100 yards they would then be picking targets.