[Archers] REALLY BIG X-bow Bolt

[barysears]

Check out Bradbury's The English Archer.  He has the measurements of a 
bow and arrow in evidence at a murder inquest. The arrow was roughly the 
same dimensions.

barre
On 4/1/2013 7:51 PM, Janyn Fletcher wrote:
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>
> That seems consistent with what I have read as well. Also there were 
> actually a few movies that got it correct as well. Robin Hood I seem 
> to remember was one, the bolt that Killed the king was of that size in 
> the movie.
>
> Janyn
>
> *From:*archers-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org 
> [mailto:archers-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] *On Behalf Of *John 
> Atkins
> *Sent:* Monday, April 01, 2013 3:16 PM
> *To:* 'Groff, Garth (ggg9y)'; archers at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Archers] REALLY BIG X-bow Bolt
>
> Having recently finished With A bended Bow: Archery in Medieval and 
> Renaissance Europe it mentions here that shafts of longbow archers 
> were 1/2 to 3/4 inch in diameter.  The book reasons that the reason 
> for the thickness was in part due to the nature of the wood the shafts 
> were made out of and in part due to the draw weight of the bow and 
> part due to the weight of the point on the shaft.  Thus, considering 
> crossbows were of signicantly higher draw weights it is not surprising 
> that the bolt diameter would be 3/4 inch or larger.
>
> Just my readings....................
>
> cog
>
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>     [mailto:archers-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] *On Behalf Of
>     *Groff, Garth (ggg9y)
>     *Sent:* Monday, April 01, 2013 2:13 PM
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>     <mailto:archers at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org>
>     *Subject:* [Archers] REALLY BIG X-bow Bolt
>
>     Noble friends of the Bow,
>
>     While rambling through the web site of the Federazione Balestrieri
>     Sammarinesi, I came upon this photo and was amazed at the size of
>     the bolt: http://www.federazionebalestrieri.sm/photo/today . That
>     monster must be at least ¾", maybe even a full inch. Very wicked!
>
>     Yours Aye,
>
>     Lord Mungo Napier, The Archer of Mallard Lodge
>
>     Read "The Tale of Mungo Napier":
>
>     http://people.virginia.edu/~ggg9y/napier1.html
>     <http://people.virginia.edu/%7Eggg9y/napier1.html>
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