Here is my 60lb longbow. This bow is medieval style - it doesn't have a handgrip and bends into a perfect segment of a circle. Most modern English longbows are styled after Victorian sporting bows and have stiffened sections at the limb tips and in the centre. The lower limb of a sporting bow is also slightly shorter and stiffer; war bows are ( Read more... )

What a medieval arrow bag looked like. Quivers are for sportsmen; soldiers used arrow bags.


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