r/instantbarbarians • u/karmisson • Oct 30 '24

Archery wR madness

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u/nappy_zap Oct 31 '24

369, damn things fly.

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u/PipeTheDonut Oct 31 '24

I'm hoping he can hit that target one more time.

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u/Beneficial_Cap_2422 Feb 04 '25

Fill more. Fill more fill more fill more.

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u/Background_Ship_9894 23d ago

It went through my windowwwwwwww and the wall!

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u/allgone79 3d ago

In medieval times, english longbow archers had an effective range of 400, we can easily identify their remains due to thicker bones and deformations due to repeatedly drawing their bows.

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u/IBeDumbAndSlow 3d ago

Weren't they just getting a bunch of archers to shoot that far at once? I can't imagine archers back then having this kind of accuracy all the way out to 400

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u/allgone79 3d ago

They were accurate at that range, they were trained at finsbury fields which had targets set at 345 yards for daily training.

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u/allgone79 3d ago

We forget how fat & soft we have become since the industrial revolution.

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u/nappy_zap 2d ago

The longbow is the reason we give people the middle finger. It was used as a “look Instill have my fucking longbow strumming finger!” because when enemies were captured, they would routinely cut off their middle fingers so they couldn’t use a longbow.

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u/allgone79 2d ago

The middle finger is american, english use the index & middle fingers to insult.