War Archer!

[sandbender]

The title of the thread is very misleading. This guy is a very good trick shooter. But what he does is got nothing to do with war or combat archery.

The title of the thread came from a Daily Telegraph article which led me to the video.

 

[Lacijag1]

The title of the thread came from a Daily Telegraph article which led me to the video.

It is this Lars guy who started this claim that he re-discoverd this long lost combat archer style. Which is not true. What he does is trick and speed shooting and he is very good at it by the way. But it is not combat archery what he does.

 

[Lacijag1]

I just found this video on youtube about this Lars guy and his claims it worth watching it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDbqz_07dW4

 

[bbdave]

I shot longbow for many years both competition and in living history. medieval war arrows are much bigger than arrows used now, bows now being around 40lb draw as compared to plus 100lb used then so arrow shafts were more like 3/4" thick an arrow storm launched at 300yds was still effective as the arrows were not coming down vertically, sharp shooting would be possible at around 100yds . All fletchings were 90deg. To the shaft the cock feather was placed in line with the shaft grain allowing the arrow to flex correctly and the string not to split the shaft.

Not much in the way of armour would stop a war arrow at 100 yds. I used to demonstrate longbow vs crossbow to show rates of fire I could shoot fairly accurately 24 arrows in a minute compared to his 3/4 bolts.

I only know of one guy who shoots a medieval war bow at full poundage properly and that's Simon Stanley. His arrows are horrific looking tools of war.

dave