longbow

It is famous that the maximum draw weight of Western personal crossbows is around 1300lb, but they require the use of tools such as windlass. I'm curious about their draw weight without tools. How much draw weight was used in actual war? Based on this video, over 300 lb seems possible...

reproduction we made yew from the Ardennes forest at the french/belgium border

In this video I discus the history of non English longbows during the Hundred Years War, since I got a yew longbow made in Belgium. There is plenty of content regarding English longbowmen, such as when talking about famous battles like Agincourt, Crecy, and the battle of Poitiers etc. But let's...

I'm a newbie with a question about the longbow--regarding something I read in passing several decades ago. My question seems related to your discussion (I don't find any other venue online) although it arises from a completely different investigation (Bronze Age history & development of earliest...

Are their any accounts describing how long a longbowman might starting from in battle? I've seen accounts of distances achieved in flight archery but never how long a man could shoot and hit his target. There used to be a dedicated longbow blog but i can't seem to find it anymore.

Oh I can't tell you how many threads I encountered on the internet stating how superior the Mongol Composite Bow is. I seen some threads go as far as stating that Mongol Composite bows were the best in history and that it can easily pierce Plate Armor, something English Longbow can't (or so the...

Hi Lads, Im doing a dissertation, 6000 words, on the English/Welsh Longbow. Im going to put a section concerning its history and origins. Any contributions would be appreciated. Ive also found out that it may have been brought to England by the Scandinavians. Anyone with any knowledge of this...

I saw many website in Britain talk about English longbows . It seem to be their traditional weapon . Many English like and shoot their longbow but i only see American use gun . American shoot bow very bad? Is this true? I don't know any champion archer who was born in US .

Last night I watched the documentary Instruments of Death which examined the different types of weaponry and their effectiveness employed at the battle of Towton (1461). I was particularly interested in an experiment they carried out using a replica of the English longbow and a pig carcass. The...

Which would be better? I don't know much about the longbow, but I heard the composite bow could fire arrows faster and much more powerfully. Yet the longbow must have powerful too as it could apparently pierce plate armor.

Few medieval weapons seem to be held in more esteem than the English longbow. But it seems to have been a weapon of a very basic design found across Europe since Antiquity. So what made the longbow - and specifically, the English longbow - so effective and famous? I've read conflicting...

Edward III's extenstive campaign in france, culminated in one of the most descisive battles in Medieval warfare. The result proved the dominence of the Longbow over crossbows, and also showed how a battle could be lost without discipline. general outline of events Edwards army comprising...

Pound for pound, which bow whas most effective, the weapon of the elite, or the weapon of the common man? VS

The Welsh Longbow Vs. The Mongol Recurve Bow. Which wins? Welsh Longbow was assumed to be able to shoot 249 yards, though a flight arrow under a professional archer of Edward III's time could supposedly hit 400 yards. Henry VIII allowed no practice range under 220 yards. They were also well...

Ok, I admit this is probably not the most serious of question but it is something that has intruiged me for quite a while: If muskets were so prone to bad weather(before percussion caps) malfunctioning and practically not hitting anything over a range of 500 yards, why didnt they just resort...

The Longbow is often regarded as a medieval machine gun or smart bomb that brought an end to chivalry. However this is for the most part a myth. The Battle of Agincourt according to Shakespeare and most historians is a glorious victory of the english longbow archers against impossible odds...

How did the English develop the longbow as a massed artillery weapon if the Welsh used bows more as sniping and skirmishing weapons? Furthermore, the Welsh chronicler Giraldus wrote about how the English developed the yew longbow, when the Welsh relied on bows of wild elm. How and why did...

England had much success against France using their Longbowmen, yet it was never adopted by any Continental powers. Was there some peculiar aspect of medieval English society which allowed only THEM to train in the use of this weapon? Continental Europe used slow-loading, heavy and complicated...

You know the subject, would anyone care to start? It seems to be one of those weapons that effectively changed history, anyone ever heard of the Hundred Years War? It played a central and decisive role in the battles of that war.