Folks I’ll be in a Horseback Archery facility next week and collaborating with Ben Roth.
Let me know if you have any ideas you want to explore for making videos related to mounted warfare pre-guns
Nothing that hurts horses plz
Chu Ko Nu
On Steroids
Used by Korean navy in imjin war
Repro by Sagittarius Archery
Can’t wait to clear ship decks with it
Im Excited to make these Bronze Arrows of Scythian, Cretan, Roman, Sarmatians and Egyptian
I’m struggling to find Reed, any suggestions?
For Roman auxiliary and scythian heads, Im gonna use 5/16 cedar for a batch for light bows, 3/8 oak for a batch of medium weight arrows and 1/2 birch for some heavy arrows.
For Cretan Mercenary arrows and Egyptian gonna use river cane
also east asian arrows coming too
Plan to test them with riveted chainmail with gambeson or lamellar
Waiting for my Medieval style Lamellar armor of Northern China used by Khitan, Jurchens, Han etc.
it’s been hundreds of years since my ancestors worn this type of armor.
The one on the left is default commercial size
The one on the right is what mine will probably look lol
Thank you Yuqing li
It’s an honour to get my video shared by the developers of Kingdom Come: Deliverance!
Mind blown!
How bows were used in hoplite warfare 500 BC Greece, YouTube shorts video: youtube.com/shorts/28V-7M1XhC...
Would you want presentation of melee weapons (swords, spears, axes, javelins) and armor? I hesitate because my channel name
As we are approaching 50,000 subscribers, I want to thank the community so much for your viewership and support!
I would like some feedback regarding the future of this channel to be focused on for Long videos:
(shorts will still be uploaded regularly but long vids take weeks or days to make)
Currently looking for a bowyer who can build a 300lb@25 bow for the next iteration of the Han crossbow project, M Shape https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbe1w...
In the meantime this is the next crossbow project because I actually have the 290lb@26 longbow for it, it's the Song dynasty Chinese crossbow: the prod is 1.8m wood, but draw length set at 22
Song Dynasty Source: (Cui Wei Xain Sheng Bei Zheng Lu of 13th century)
At present day we want to use crossbows with draw strength of 2 stone to 3 stone (~264 lbs to ~397 lbs)…… The crossbow prod should be 5 chi(1.6 meters) to 6 chi(1.9 meters), and cannot be too long, so that short soldiers can easily shoot it at the shoulder.
There are also direct mentions of wood prods but the length of these specific ones mentioned are shorter prods. It is clear that a wide variety of crossbows are used in the song dynasty.
In 1068, the Deputy Capital Commander Zhang Ruoshui and Commissioner of the Western Upper military district, Li Ping, were first summoned to consider and improve upon the simple-prod crossbow. Zhang Ruoshui came up with a new design for the crossbow and it was recommended by Li Hong and was actually a [new] variety of crossbow. The stock was made of mulberry and the prods of sandalwood. It had a stirrup made of iron and the arrow channel and latch were made of the bronze used to make spearheads. The string was hemp wound with silk. The stock was three [Chinese] feet and two inches (1 m) in length and the length of the string was two feet five inches (78 cm). The arrows were wood with fletching and a few inches long. It could penetrate a log of elm up to half an arrow-length fired from a distance of over 340 paces. - Song Shi, translation from Stephen Selby
Old Channel Name: Historical Archery
This channel is about weapons used throughout history before modern era.
Not only is archery discussed, but also blackpowder small arms, slings, javelins, armour and melee weapons.
The focusing time period is recorded history due to the difficulty of finding archeological finds before the Bronze Age.
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