Longbows For Sale

I find the history of the longbow fascinating and it is the longbow that I would most like to learn to use. There are longbows for sale by various dealers on this web site, but the adverts are constantly changing, so if you do not see longbows for sale here now, please check back later.

Longbows For Sale

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If you are replacing an old bow, then you probably already know what you are looking for, but if you are just entering or thinking of entering the sport of longbow archery, it would be wise to find out more about longbows first.

The most famous longbows are the Welsh and the English longbows. They were very similar, but the Welsh longbow was often a little shorter and a little sturdier than the English longbow. When the Welsh were not fighting the English, they often fought for them as mercenaries.

The longbow was at the height of its use as a weapon of war in the founteen and fifteenth centuries when it was used by the British against the French and others. Crecy and Agincourt were the most famous examples. The longbow could cast a heavy, three ounce, armour-piercing arrow up to 400 yards.

Longbow archers could shoot six to eight arrows a minute, so a few hundred longbowmen could bring down a deadly hail of thousands of arrows on an advancing enemy army, while they themselves were still safely out of range.

In order to shoot such arrows over this sort of distance, the bows had to be very powerful and in order to achieve this, they were long and sturdy often with a draw weight of 160-180 lbs. This is far more than the average man can draw, so a law was passed by Henry VIII compelling every man to practice shooting a longbow at the butts over at least 220 yards every Sunday.

In order to achieve even this, men began practicing as boys in order to deveop their upper body strength and technique. As boys grew and developed, so the bow they used was replaced with a larger, more powerful one until it was between six and seven feet long.

The point is that if you are looking for longbows for sale, you have to think about the draw weight. Are you strong enough to shoot a longbow? Some archery clubs look on longbow archers with suspicion, as potential nutcases. After all, they reason, archery is a skillful sport do do with accuracy, so why would anyone but a nutter want to shoot the ancient equivalent of artillery?

However, longbows are less powerful these days; typically averaging 60-80 lbs draw weight, so accuracy can be achieved with modern longbows by people of modern proportions and strength. So, if you are looking for longbows for sale, read the bow's specifications before you buy.