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<blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 4345735" data-attributes="member: 114">I'm not sure how relevant that is though.Firstly, because most historical longbowmen in battle were volleying arrows (although I stand to be corrected on that by historians who know better!)Secondly because there are at least two different kinds of sighting used in archery competitions today. Target shooting is the one that people are most familar with, but there is a branch gaining popularity known as field archery, and in field archery you hold the arrow slightly differently and you do sight along the arrow.The big thing that beginning archers have to learn is to pull with their back rather than their arm. The next thing (if you are trying to shoot a target in the woods at a range of 20-50ft) is that your arrow will kick up a little when you shoot, so you have to aim a little low. Most D&amp;D archery will be much, much closer to the field archery situation both in range and usage. I would think that a months training would get someone very useful with the bow.The idea about starting with someones grandfather sounds like PR tosh though.Of course, since longbows were tailored to their user, and giving someone a longbow which is too heavy for them to use effectively would be counterproductive, how many of the longbows were actually 160lb draws? I'd imagine that a lot were less than that.Cheers</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Plane Sailing, post: 4345735, member: 114"] I'm not sure how relevant that is though. Firstly, because most historical longbowmen in battle were volleying arrows (although I stand to be corrected on that by historians who know better!) Secondly because there are at least two different kinds of sighting used in archery competitions today. Target shooting is the one that people are most familar with, but there is a branch gaining popularity known as field archery, and in field archery you hold the arrow slightly differently and you do sight along the arrow. The big thing that beginning archers have to learn is to pull with their back rather than their arm. The next thing (if you are trying to shoot a target in the woods at a range of 20-50ft) is that your arrow will kick up a little when you shoot, so you have to aim a little low. Most D&D archery will be much, much closer to the field archery situation both in range and usage. I would think that a months training would get someone very useful with the bow. The idea about starting with someones grandfather sounds like PR tosh though. Of course, since longbows were tailored to their user, and giving someone a longbow which is too heavy for them to use effectively would be counterproductive, how many of the longbows were actually 160lb draws? I'd imagine that a lot were less than that. Cheers [/QUOTE]

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