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Originally Posted by Mark Conley The claims to the actual distances and kill lengths are all based on ancient texts that may be slighted as to the writers making words that were pleasing to their mongol conqueors |
That is a very good point. The asians were a lot less democratical than the europeans as they are today. the chinese emperors made the chroniclers record a lot of impossible things. The recent shooting was taken from a turkish ambassador from the ottoman empire in england and out shot a M16 with a broken turkish bow. This sound so much like a legend. The people who believes it must explain why the janissaries dropped the bow and used the clumsy and supposedly short ranged fire arms. Why the Mamluks were trained to shoot at targets 75 meters away while the longbow men was expected 200. Also why did the Islamics fighting in spain followed behind spain on the development of the crossbow. 160 pounds of draweight thing is impossible to reach. The longbows already pushed human limits to the extreme. And the turkish bows were well under 100 pounds.