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Bramble
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Re: Bowhunting Elephant?
28/08/08 10:50 PM

They tested the ones that they got from the wreck of the Tudor Warsip "Mary Rose" when they salvaged her. she went down in 1500's. The heavest bow had a draw weight of 170 lbs !!!

When they examined the skeletons of the archers that they found the bone plates in their coller bones had never fuzed as normal skeletons. Rather this element was replaced with cartilidge. The scientists put it down to the massive overuse of this region of their bodies.

That was when the bowmakers made the 150 lb weight replica. I did some work for the "Farmers and Fletchers" guild in London which was when I got to try it.

When I said I tried it Ben, please do not credit that statment with any measure of sucess in the endevour !!! The best I could do is to get the string 3" from touching my lips. Because the draw weight loads up on those longbows, I wasent pulling 150 lbs, proberbly 100 or so.

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Bowhunting Elephant?	AspenHill	27/02/07 03:45 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	Scott	05/03/07 10:55 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	Bramble	25/08/08 07:59 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	ArcherIII	27/04/07 03:56 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	EricD	01/05/07 05:28 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	ArcherIII	01/05/07 09:29 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	AspenHill	01/05/07 10:50 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	Ben	24/08/08 09:58 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	Bramble	24/08/08 11:05 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	500grains	25/08/08 04:11 PM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	Ben	25/08/08 04:31 PM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	Bramble	25/08/08 09:12 PM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	Omnivorous_Bob	27/08/08 03:20 PM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	Ben	27/08/08 05:28 PM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	Bramble	28/08/08 07:27 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	9.3x57	28/08/08 08:03 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	rscott	28/08/08 01:08 PM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	Mike_Bailey	28/08/08 05:20 PM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	Bramble	28/08/08 10:50 PM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	Ripp	28/08/08 11:21 PM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	9.3x57	29/08/08 12:04 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	JabaliHunter	29/08/08 04:20 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	rscott	29/08/08 01:31 PM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	JabaliHunter	29/08/08 07:29 PM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	bigger_is_best	29/08/08 05:56 PM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	Ben	29/08/08 07:29 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	9.3x57	29/08/08 08:23 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	Ben	01/09/08 07:13 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	9.3x57	01/09/08 07:35 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	Ben	28/08/08 05:19 PM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	Ben	26/08/08 07:14 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	Ben	24/08/08 11:36 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	JabaliHunter	25/08/08 12:26 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	larcher	01/05/07 04:26 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	Double_Trouble	27/02/07 04:22 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	larcher	27/02/07 06:56 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	Marrakai	27/02/07 09:34 PM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	500grains	01/03/07 05:43 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	9.3x57	25/08/08 09:55 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	larcher	02/03/07 07:12 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	John303	04/03/07 12:09 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	AspenHill	04/03/07 01:15 AM
Re: Bowhunting Elephant?	Marrakai	04/03/07 02:58 PM

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