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Thu 16 Aug, 2012 12:03 am
interestingly, the byzantine manual 'the anonymous byzantine treatise on strategy' a 6th century manual, never explicitely states how far archers should be able to shoot, the pieces on training aspects of shooting are accuracy, power (i made a thread on methods of how to help train archers to increase the POWER of their shooting
http://www.myArmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t...highlight= ) and training for rate of fire, but it gives i think very little mention about training for shooting at targets a long way away which is odd, ill have to go back and look at it again to see if i missed anything....
although i guess more power and more accuracy means you can cast an arrow further because it therefore means more energy is available to cast the arrow further,
is there any mention on HOW the english archers were trained to increase the effectiveness of their shots aka the power of their shots, or the accuracy, aside from simply turning up to the butts once or twice a week and shooting for an hour or two?
one thing is consistent though, is that the idea of encouraging competition amongst archers as a means of improving them my understanding is that the English towns and shires, here and there organized shooting competitions to help encourage archers to get better with the priomise of some sort of prize for winning of course..
then again my understanding is that the Swiss while still very effective appeared to have little to no records regarding HOW they practiced and learned how to fight as the Swiss halberdiers did in the 15th century.