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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fade" data-source="post: 861666" data-attributes="member: 544">Remember that in battlefield use bows were not really aimed as such. You simply launched volley after volley of arrows in an arcing trajectory (for range) in the direction of the enemy regiments. Quite literally a 'rain of arrows' (or bolts), with which particular enemy they landed on more or less a matter of chance.You still needed a lot of practice, just to pull those plate-armour piercing longbows. I heard it quoted as starting with the grandfather, but father seems reasonable as well.</blockquote>