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Old 06-02-2011, 10:52 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Flint View Post
A guy at work today (a physical therapist, coincidentally) was having a going away party--he is moving to Alaska. We got to talking about manly man stuff and he told me about a local guy he knows who makes traditional longbows. I would love to get a traditional English longbow. Welsh archers could kill a combatant in full plate armor from 60 yards. With the Welsh archers, the English were known to defeat forces of ten times their size.
This guy has a whole series of photos and how to descriptions. He's made a lot of these.
http://poorfolkbows.com/elb.htm
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