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I made this myself about fifteen years ago, doubt I have the strength to draw it these days. I used wild turkey feathers on the arrows.
Blu

Very nice, Blu. In all the years I've been shooting bows, I never got around to making one. Made strings and fletched arrows but never a bow.

Cheers for the info, guys.

A lot of arrah flingers on 'ere, then. razz

Cracking looking bow, Blu.

1066, very nice video.

Tower, when you return we will have to loose some arrows over at Jeff and Kendras.
There is even a new crossbow in the family I can borrow

Sounds great, Bill. I'd be well up for that.

Remembering my time in the US, I recall all the nifty arrow heads that you could buy, mainly for hunting; there seemed to be a huge number of interesting designs from things that looked like traditional "war" heads to things that ejected razor blades.

I'm guessing, in the UK, we're only allowed to use blunt "target" heads?

I shoot recurve, also an Archery UK (GNAS) archery leader

It's a little known fact oomans, that Wellington tried to raise a company of archers just a year or two prior to Waterloo. He reckoned, correctly, that their range and rate of fire would far outstrip froggy musketeers (12 rounds / minute , accurate to 400 yards versus 2 to 3 rounds / min and accurate to only 100 yards). The lack of trained manpower and the long time it takes to become proficient in longbow use put paid to the idea. In 1915, after The Great War stagnated into trench warfare, the War Office again looked at longbows as the ranges were adequate, the lethality good enough, the rate of fire high enough and, above all, they were capable of plunging fire (ie dropping arrows into the opposing trenches). Again, the training needs defeated the idea.

The last recorded use of the longbow in war (more properly "warbow' - as all warbows are longbows but not all longbows are warbows) was June - July 1944 when they were used silently to kill German sentries in Normandy on and just after D day.

So what were the bows used to compete in the Olympics? I watched all of the archery (whilst waiting for the last 5mins of the shooting) and really fancy trying it.

Marc

I've just rekindled my interest , I used to do it 20 years ago but gave up due to lack of time because of all my shooting hobbies.

I've got a 70lb bear compound now and I'm loving a bit of 3d field archery.

Scotsgun wrote:So what were the bows used to compete in the Olympics? I watched all of the archery (whilst waiting for the last 5mins of the shooting) and really fancy trying it.

Marc

Pretty sure that they were recurve bows. I've got one tucked away in the loft. I may have to get it out and see if I can draw it.

Tower.75 wrote:
I'm guessing, in the UK, we're only allowed to use blunt "target" heads?

Sorry but sign01

Blunts for taking down birds with flu-flus (or shooting at knights at re-enactments! :lol: )


Typical Field Piles - Target/hunting EDIT: Small game only! (no hunting in UK)


Typical target pile

Grant, I would never use those piles for hunting mate, in fact they are target only and are illegal to hunt with over here. I use mainly 100Grn Broadheads for my deer hunting.
Blu