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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fenris-77" data-source="post: 8296193" data-attributes="member: 6993955">[USER=16814]@Ovinomancer[/USER] - There's a lot of range in historical estimations of Longbow draw weight, even looking at the same sources you get a range from 80-90 to 100-120 and up. Bows recovered from the wreck of the Mary Rose (1545) have been estimated to have a 30 inch draw weight of 150-160lbs and ranging up to some massive 180-185lb monsters. So naturally there's a pretty big swath of estimates for effective range. Historians before the mid-80's were mostly low in their estimates (the wreck of the Mary Rose was raised in, um, 1982 I think). The 130-odd bows recovered from that wreck are the only extant examples we have of longbows from anywhere close to the period of its dominance.I love that people spend enough time doing practical history that you can even talk about the guy you're talking about, and the example is worth bringing up. Where I take that with a grain of salt is that I suspect he hasn't done enough longbow work that his muscles, joints and spine look like those of medieval English longbowmen did. English archers has enormously asymmetrical builds. Anyway, this is very much an aside.</blockquote>