technique for pulling a longbow

[robtattoo]

Originally Posted by ratty

i recon i could p i s s higher

Conceded. I've got a bladder like an acorn!

[gino]

there, isn't that better guys?
now let's all play nice in future ok!

(geez, it's easier getting my year 8's to play nice...)

[ratty]

Originally Posted by robtattoo

Conceded. I've got a bladder like an acorn!

...lol..

[robtattoo]

Originally Posted by ratty

if as you say you shoot these heavybows. why do you not shoot them anymore?

so your 140# bow is a hungarian? being drawn to 35" thats impressive i can only manage 34"

you will have to educate me here, whats a hill bow i thought they were for violins?

your form sounds good but i would draw to the ear which is 32" for me.

so why didnt you educate the people on the thread?

as you clearly know what they are saying is missguided?

I don't shoot them anymore for the simple reason I have little interest in Warbow history & methodology. I used to shoot them, thinking that heavier = faster = flatter trajectory, before I got edumacated.

My 140# bow was an English warbow actually. My Hunnic is 90#

I could draw to my ear, but my accuracy & consistency is far better with a draw to the corner of my mouth, mainly because I can see the full length of my arrow with my peripheral vision. The closer your anchor to your eyeline, the easier it becomes to judge windage.

I rarely visit this forum these days. Archery Interchange is a great place if you're a target archer, not too hot if you're a bowhunter/field archer into anything other than ELBs/horsebows. I spend most of my 'net-time on hunting/trad archery forums. I only ever post here if something really catches my eye.

If it helps discern my drawlength, I'm 6'1" & weigh in at 17 stone.

[ratty]

Originally Posted by robtattoo

I don't shoot them anymore for the simple reason I have little interest in Warbow history & methodology. I used to shoot them, thinking that heavier = faster = flatter trajectory, before I got edumacated.

My 140# bow was an English warbow actually. My Hunnic is 90#

I could draw to my ear, but my accuracy & consistency is far better with a draw to the corner of my mouth, mainly because I can see the full length of my arrow with my peripheral vision. The closer your anchor to your eyeline, the easier it becomes to judge windage.

I rarely visit this forum these days. Archery Interchange is a great place if you're a target archer, not too hot if you're a bowhunter/field archer into anything other than ELBs/horsebows. I spend most of my 'net-time on hunting/trad archery forums. I only ever post here if something really catches my eye.

If it helps discern my drawlength, I'm 6'1" & weigh in at 17 stone.

that would explain the extra draw inch im 5'9" and 15 stone.

what was your english warbow made from? oregon yew?

[ratty]

Originally Posted by robtattoo

I don't shoot them anymore for the simple reason I have little interest in Warbow history & methodology. I used to shoot them, thinking that heavier = faster = flatter trajectory, before I got edumacated.

agreed for speed and flat trajectory its definatly compound

big heavy weight bow = big heavy weight arrow

[LobbyMuncher]

Originally Posted by Et tu brute

Thanks, but I can't seem to find that video on the website?

Cheers

Edit - Thanks NoWay

Here...

COTL Animation

Cheers

ChrisM

[English Bowman]

Originally Posted by not dead yet

hand position 45% on riser / grip. dont hit arm dont wear bracer for recurve or compound.

made tv programme with some re-enactment archers, they couldnt hit the apple, target archers beat um hands down.

who says what is correct,

answers to ----


pete

Since using my technique I have achieved Bowman in target archery, and am the current English Field Champion (GNAS) and the guy I'm coaching at the moment came 2nd in the county field champs (behind me) and 3rd in the SCAS champs, I think I've got a fairly good idea!

This is the technique I was taught by a coach, was refined by a county coach, and commented on as being good form by Pip Bickerstaffe at one of his seminars.

Now I'm not saying that my way is the only way, but the form in the photo that was posted is wrong.

Daniel

[alanesq]

Hello all,

Just checked out this thread for first time in a while;
I have developed quiet a reputation on the warbow forum for starting arguments but this is the best yet, a full scale war has kicked off from something I posted nearly 1.5 years ago !!!

When I posted the question it was back when I had just started archery and no one else in my club used a longbow so I was a bit lost but as Ratty has mentioned I am now into warbows
I was always interested in getting a longbow like would have been used at Agincourt and what was often talked about in the history books, it took me a while to figure out what this was though

In my opinion there are two distinct "styles" of longbow and so depending which interests you, you will be coming from a completely different angle:
i.e. If you are interested in the type of medieval longbow which would have been used for hunting or war

For me I wanted to have as close as possible a bow the sort which would have been used in wars during medieval times (the English longbow of legends etc.) An impossible question as no one really knows what this is, but I came to the conclusion this would be a self yew bow, full compass at least 140lb at 32"
I now have one and I am in the process of trying to learn to use it, could take a good while but this is my goal anyway.
Its not a matcho how heavy bow can you pull thing, its just that I am interested in using a bow as close as possible to what would have been used in days of old.