Trails Across The Prairies
The English Longbow
In this photo I can be seen shooting a new bow I recently acquired, an English Longbow that is similar to the English longbow that was a powerful medieval type of longbow about 6 ft (1.8 m) long used by the English and Welsh for hunting and as a weapon in warfare.
No English longbows survive from the period when the longbow was dominant (c. 1250–1450), probably because bows became weaker, broke, and were replaced rather than being handed down through generations.
More than 130 bows survive from the Renaissance period, however. More than 3,500 arrows and 137 whole longbows were recovered from the Mary Rose, a ship of Henry VIII's navy that sank at Portsmouth in 1545.
Meanwhile back to the present where I have spent time out and about with my English longbow, and I am finding it fun to shoot with good power for casting arrows downrange.
A closer look at my English longbow .......
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