Originally posted by apex
Unless I somehow missed it in my look through the thread and someone already mentioned it, you can easily obtain a bow in the UK as well as crossbows.
You can get some really powerful ones which will be lethal at long range, if you're accurate. longbows need the most skill, but with a skilled
person would be incredibly good. Course, if you don't start practicing until the survival situation, you have a problem.
When I did archery, someone I knew even had some replica war arrows with armour piercing points on them. They didn't shoot them, but you can get
them easily.
[edit on 30-3-2008 by apex]
War arrows are rockin' you've got barbed, broadhead and bodkin.
The latter can pierce armour, any sort of armour, even flak jackets are no match.
The downside is I looking into buying a bunch of arrow heads like that and they are as expensive now as they were back in the days of the hundred
years war.
I think 20 quid will set you back for 1 bona-fide armour piercing arrow. Slightly less for barbed and broadhead.
Barbed-bodkin hybrids were found on the Mary Rose so it's interesting to wonder where we'd be if firearms didn't replace the longbow in this
country....
To get a good longbow (short of robbing the Imperial War Museum) you need to order them in from Oregon. That's right our US brothers have the best
wood these days for making them. They cost about 200 quid for a war-bow spec longbow. Be warned though you'll need to be practising every day with
one as they are a ninja test to use!
What do folk think of the 'pistol' crossbows. I've seen a few here:
www.merlinarcherycentre.co.uk...
This one claims the dizzy power of 80lbs on draw/power. Anyone had such luck with them?
[edit on 10-8-2008 by WatchRider]
