longbows

Watchers loaded crossbows and lifted longbows, ballista crews readied great bolts, catapulters rolled huge stones into their mechanisms.

GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

In the Middle Ages, the chivalrous code could not prohibit the outbreak of the plague, peasant revolts, the rape and pillage of the Crusades, or even the usage of cross and longbows during sieges.

Franz-Stefan Gady: From the Middle Ages to the Cyber Age: Non-State Actors Franz-Stefan Gady 2011

However, longbows had draws anywhere from 75 to 150 pounds.

Two Shotguns Equal One Bow? 2009

The heroes took the sturdy longbows the gnolls were using and resumed their way across the mountains to Dalaran.

D&D last night nathreee 2009

Not the usually the case with recurves and certainly not with longbows as far as I am aware.

Two Shotguns Equal One Bow? 2009

Old longbows could only shoot an arrow at about 170-180 fps (even Clay's ten year old bow does 310) but the arrow weighed 1000-1500 grains, as heavy as five or six modern arrows, with a lot more momentum.

Two Shotguns Equal One Bow? 2009

Old longbows could only shoot an arrow at about 170-180 fps (even Clay's ten year old bow does 310) but the arrow weighed 1000-1500 grains, as heavy as five or six modern arrows, with a lot more momentum.

Two Shotguns Equal One Bow? 2009

Those tired of modern life can swap their laptops for longbows as Europe's largest free medieval battle re-enactment charges back 540 years to recreate the Battle of Tewkesbury, the final showdown in the War of the Roses.

This week's new events 2011

However, longbows had draws anywhere from 75 to 150 pounds.

Two Shotguns Equal One Bow? 2009

Not the usually the case with recurves and certainly not with longbows as far as I am aware.

Two Shotguns Equal One Bow? 2009