Really cool video. Looks like a recurve rather than a longbow, though.

I do believe you're correct Kuga, but they do refer to it as a longbow in the video itself, so we'll leave it for now.

Well, even discover is liable to make mistakes once in a while. At any rate, I myself was surprised to find out that super-adhesive glue and fiberglass were both used in authentic traditional "long" bows.

Very interesting video, and well presented, m, interesting point about the bow being more recurve, but a recurve "curves back" at the top where the bow strong is affixed, this doe not, howeverits not a traditional longbow either

Anyway...upvite I enjoyed it

Composite bow.

Sure, they had super-adhesives and fiberglass back in the Middle Ages. They were made by ye olde polymersmiths.

no no, that's all wrong. you need to take 15 chocobo wings and 3 arctic winds, a gemsteel and a bat fang to the merchant at mt. bur-omisace, then he fashions... oh. english. i thought it said elvish.

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although not an english longbow, in the truest sense, the bow he's making is not much of a recurve, either.

yes, the construction is a composite, or laminate.
as opposed to what's called a self bow, or a one-piece.
but the style/shape, and the materials used, are two different terms.
you can make a composite recurve, or a composite straightbow, in other words.

the style he's constructing, is mostly an ordinary longbow, with the grip being more typical of what's called a reflex bow.

Whats the name of the two part javelin-launching setup that some indigenous peoples used to take down large animals? Its like a stick that a large arrow can rest in and be whipped out of a long distance. Wasn't that before the bow and arrow?

The term you're searching for is Atlatl. Ted Nugent uses one for hunting.

No really. Ted Nugent uses one for hunting.

Wang Dang Poontang!

wow people with the nunchuk skills and bo hunting skills just come out of the wood work to correct each other in this comments section!

Duh, its a Composite Longbow.
1d8 x3 with an effective range of 110ft.
newbs.

That's cruelty to apples right there.

You could say, the caveman's invention is right on the mark!

But you shouldn't.

>> ^arsenault185:
Well, even discover is liable to make mistakes once in a while. At any rate, I myself was surprised to find out that super-adhesive glue and fiberglass were both used in authentic traditional "long" bows.


Well, in their defense, they do say "today's" long bows. Not ancient ones.

How did this ever make top 15?

It's just a string of this, then this, then this, then this, then this, then it's done, accompanied by some uninformative video. No drama. No science. Nothing to connect the bow with the people who use it. Nothing about why.

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