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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.<br>
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barre<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/1/2013 7:51 PM, Janyn Fletcher
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Janyn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:archers-bounces@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org">archers-bounces@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:archers-bounces@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org">mailto:archers-bounces@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org</a>] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>John Atkins<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 01, 2013 3:16 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Groff, Garth (ggg9y)';
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org">archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Archers] REALLY BIG X-bow Bolt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">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.</span><span
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">Just
my readings....................</span><span
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Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Message-----<br>
<b>From:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:archers-bounces@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org">archers-bounces@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org</a>
[<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Groff, Garth (ggg9y)<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 01, 2013 2:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org">archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Archers] REALLY BIG X-bow Bolt</span><span
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Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Noble friends of the Bow,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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: <a
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href="http://www.federazionebalestrieri.sm/photo/today">http://www.federazionebalestrieri.sm/photo/today</a>
. That monster must be at least ¾”, maybe even a full inch.
Very wicked!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yours Aye,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Lord Mungo Napier, The Archer of Mallard
Lodge<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Read “The Tale of Mungo Napier”: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://people.virginia.edu/%7Eggg9y/napier1.html">http://people.virginia.edu/~ggg9y/napier1.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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