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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ulfgeir" data-source="post: 9614365" data-attributes="member: 7015719">Well one thing that is usually not taken into account is how unwieldy a longbow is.  It might not weigh much, but the longbow I shoot is 72 inch long, and taller than me when strung.  If it is unstrung it is almost 2 meters long.  Me, I am only 1.63 meters tall. It is also very temperamental, and the slightest error I make might mean I miss a 60 cm target at 18 meters distance.. This is a weak little bow at 52 lbs draw-weight at 28 inch draw-length. I have short arms so only get like 48 lbs out of it. It is sadly very slow. So at 18 meters I aim direcly in the center of the target of the 60 cm target. If I comete outdoors I have a 122 cm target at 40 meters, and then I have to aim like 30 cm above the target (not the center, the whole target)... I can shoot it like 100-110 meters but the precision is quite bad at that distance and well I have to aim like 45 degrees.[ATTACH=full]399902[/ATTACH]And that is on a flat field. If I shoot downwards or upwards, I can't just move my arm, as that affects the draw-length, instead I have to bend at the hip...and as people compare to modern weapons, well, it was easier to do single shots (it has only mode and that is "full auto of 10 shots per second") and hit the target well enough with the "Swedish-K"  (Swedish submachine Model-45) to pass basic guard-duty back when I did my military service 30+ years ago than it is getting good with this bow.  My personal best with the bow on a 30-arrows series (300 points) on the 60 cm target at 18 meters distance was 256 points.</blockquote>

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