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- From: doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor)
- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Re: Primitive FireArms
- Date: 30 Dec 92 13:16:37
- Organization: Intel i960(tm) Architecture
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- In-reply-to: pa124548@utkvm1.utk.edu's message of Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:45:49 GMT
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- pa124548@utkvm1.utk.edu (T. Archer) writes:
- ] In article <> doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor) writes:
- ] >Recurves are period. They were the usual bow used by the
- ] >Turks and the Mongols, as well as other peoples.
- ]
- ] Could you document that? The last time the issue was raised, one of the "
- ] purists" on this forum screamed bloody blue murder because to him, an "
- ] authenticist," a line of archers with recurves didn't "look mideveal."
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- Of course I can document it. Find any collection of paintings of Mongols
- from the period, and every other Mongol will have at least one obvious
- recurve bow with them. There are some archeological remains too. Recurves
- were all Mongols ever used, as near as I can tell. Longbows just weren't
- practical as horseback-weilded weapons, apparently.
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- Now it may be a little weird for, say, an English persona to have
- one, but Mongols did fight alongside some of the Crusaders (actually,
- a group of crusaders joined the Mongols in an attack on a Moslem force )
- in the first half of the 13th Century. So Mongolian recurved bows
- could have made their way back to England and France.
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- Mongol recurves were short little things, but some were said to
- shoot out to 700 yards !
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- Dennis O'Connor doconnor@sedona.intel.com
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