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Book:Name: the theory and practice of archery 1887
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Description:Title: The theory and practice of archery
Author: Ford, Horace A
Language: angielski
Year: 2012
Subjects: Sports, Olympics & Olympic Sports, Archery
Publisher: SAP
ISBN: 9780500292105
Total pages: 360
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CHAPTER PAGE
I. OF THE ENGLISH LONG-BOW 1
II. HOW TO CHOOSE A BOW, AND HOW TO USE AND PRESERVE
IT WHEN CHOSEN 17
III. OF THE ARROW 27
IV. OF THE STRING, BRACER, AND SHOOTING-GLOVE 44
V. OF THE GREASE-BOX, TASSEL, BELT, ETC. 67
VI. OF BRACING, OR STRINGING, AND NOCKING 78
VII. OF ASCHAM'S FIVE POINTS, POSITION STANDING, ETC. 83
VIII. DRAWING 94
IX. AIMING 107
X. OF HOLDING AND LOOSING 122
XI. OF DISTANCE SHOOTING, AND DIFFERENT ROUNDS 132
XII. ARCHERY SOCIETIES, 'RECORDS,' ETC. 140
XIII. THE PUBLIC ARCHERY MEETINGS AND THE DOUBLE
YORK AND OTHER ROUNDS 148
XIV. CLUB SHOOTING AND PRIVATE PRACTICE 279
_PLATES._
PORTRAIT OF MR. FORD _Frontispiece_
PORTRAIT OF MAJOR C. H. FISHER _To face p. 122_
ARCHERY
CHAPTER I.
_OF THE ENGLISH LONG-BOW_
Of the various implements of archery, the bow demands the first
consideration. It has at one period or another formed one of the chief
weapons of war and the chase in almost every nation, and is, indeed, at
the present day in use for both these purposes in various parts of the
world. It has differed as much in form as in material, having been made
curved, angular, and straight; of wood, metal, horn, cane, whalebone, of
wood and horn, or of wood and the entrails and sinews of animals and
fish combined: sometimes of the rudest workmanship, sometimes finished
with the highest perfection of art.
No work exists which aims at giving an exhaustive description of the
various forms of bows which have been used by different nations in
ancient and modern times, and such an undertaking would be far beyond
the scope of the present work. The only form of the bow with which we
are now concerned is the _English long-bow_, and especially with the
English long-bow as now used for target-shooting as opposed to the more
powerful weapon used by our forefathers for the purposes of war. The
cross-bow never took a very strong hold on the English nation as
compared with the long-bow, and, as it has never been much employed for
recreation, it need not be here described.
It is a matter of surprise and regret that so few genuine specimens of
the _old_ English long-bow should remain in existence at the present
day. One in the possession of the late Mr. Peter Muir of Edinburgh is
said to have been used in the battle of Flodden in 1513: it is of
self-yew, a single stave, apparently of English growth, and very roughly
made. Its strength has been supposed to be between 80 and 90 lbs.; but
as it could not be tested without great risk of breaking it, its actual
strength remains a matter of conjecture only. This bow was presented to
Mr. P. Muir by Colonel J. Ferguson, who obtained it from a border house
contiguous to Flodden Field, where it had remained for many generations,
with the reputation of having been used at that battle.
There are likewise in the Tower two bows that were taken out of the
'Mary Rose,' a vessel sunk in the reign of Henry VIII. They are
unfinished weapons, made out of single staves of magnificent yew,
probably of foreign growth, quite round from end to end, tapered from
the middle to each end, and without horns. It is difficult to estimate
their strength, but it probably does not exceed from 65 to 70 lbs.
Another weapon now in the Museum of the United Service Institution came
from the same vessel. Probably the oldest specimen extant of the English
long-bow is in the possession of Mr. C. J. Longman. It was dug out of
the peat near Cambridge, and is unfortunately in very bad condition. It
can never have been a very powerful weapon. Geologists say that it
cannot be more recent than the twelfth or thirteenth century, and may be
much more ancient. Indeed, from its appearance it is more probable that
it is a relic of the weaker archery of the Saxons than that it is a
weapon made after the Normans had introduced their more robust shooting
into this country.
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