ORIGINAL: Sylvan
Thanks for the history stuff.I always find archery history interesting. I once read that the typical draw weights on indian bows at the battle of the little big horn were 90 to 100 pounds. I think the biggest difference between then and now are the archers. Back in time little boys grew up shooting a bow. Sometimes there life depended on how good they were. They shot them all the time. Much of Englands success in battle depended on the prowess of its archers. Draw weights were incredibly high relative to today's archers. Very few of us could draw the bow of a boy from prior era's.
No, Thank you Sylvan.
I haven’t read much archery history, but history that included archery. Most of what I've read is from a man who lived in the late 1800’s. He wrote history books for boys.
There is one story he told, that I tell to kids today involving the hugh packs of wolves in northern Africa during the time of Hannibal. A real archers story that’s bound to send even grown men to bed dreaming of being involved in a hunt like that. The author was G.A. Henty. The title of the book is “The Young Carthaginian”.