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And a thing of beauty?

No no no, I couldn't bear it....... :'(

So - you love rabbits more than your greens??

No, I'm just an 'o.k. as long as I don't see or hear it or think about it ' person. Sometimes I hear rabits squealing when Reynard has caught them......Keeps me awake for hours.

The only good rabbit as far as I'm concerned in the one inside a pie. One reached the site during a cold snap one winter, and all my parsnips went before the fox got it.

Live and let live me.  That's why all my veg is in a mess.

I have rabbits...in my freezer!  YUMYUM!  That is a gorgeous bow Tim.  Didn't we have an archer amongst us for a while....Pixie wasn't it?  I take it the grandchildren are having lessons?

Make great curry!

Yes - Samantha - keep meaning to check what happened.

Yes - you've seen it before!!

Rather the quick exit than a horrid death from Myxomatosis though.
Seen plenty of that on hiking hols in the past.

That's a horrible disease, but at least it got rid of the horrible things for a while. It's good to see buzzards I(which used to be called rabbit hawks in some areas) making a comeback; if they can get rabbits, then they become their main diet. It must be a much easier living than hunting worms and beetles.

Beautiful bow tim.

We have a few (cough, well maybe more than a few) here as my OH makes them traditionally, longbows and flatbows mainly.

Every time I look there seems to be more, although they are in various stages of manufacture right now. Last one we sold was a beautiful lemonwood longbow - 77lb pull to it!!!!

Quote from: EJ - Emma Jane on August 11, 2006, 22:19:02
Didn't we have an archer amongst us for a while....

I believe Treacletop is an archer, although I have not heard from her in a long while now ...

Fascinating, Bunny!  77lb? Which Goliath pulled that?? Mine is only 37lb. . But it claimed fish in the Pacific in 1957, & other things since.

I first 'did it' with the Royal Company in Edinburgh in the '40s. The real thing. No sights or balance weights etc!!

Keep making them - things of beauty.

I believe traditional longbows had a pull of over 100lb. People trained to use them from a young age, and an archer's arms became so overdeveloped that it shows on their skeletons. But like so many things, it went out of fashion, and laws to force people to train don't seem to have worked so well. Archers would have swept the field at Waterloo, but guns were far easier to use.

Depends what you mean really, they maybe easy to use but have you ever tried hitting what you're aiming at with a musket? not easy at all

No, and most people didn't try to aim anyway. Efficiency in combat has always been far lower than in exercises, and even with modern weapons, a high proportion of soldiers loose off without aiming and concentrate on keeping their heads down. Can't say I blame them. The technique with muskets was to close to within a few yards and loose off a mass volley. Even if casualties were relatively low, the effect would have been totally intimidating.

Quote from: tim on August 15, 2006, 12:20:40
Fascinating, Bunny!  77lb? Which Goliath pulled that?? Mine is only 37lb. . But it claimed fish in the Pacific in 1957, & other things since.

I first 'did it' with the Royal Company in Edinburgh in the '40s. The real thing. No sights or balance weights etc!!

Keep making them - things of beauty.

The 77lb bow was sold to a guy Nottingham way if I remember right and he was very pleased with it, although it was very awkward to post!! lol I didn't even attempt to pull it but OH managed.

I must admit to being hopeless with a bow, although OH was a fantastic archer before his recent accident and finger amputation. He's healing nicely now but hasn't tried using a bow again yet.

We did make and sell bows successfully for quite some time (aswell as saunas!) but lack of a decent work area has stopped him from getting much done. Hopefully he'll get back to it soon as we still have a lot of timber......They are beautiful things and if I can find some pics I'll post them for you to see.

Quote from: Money_Bunny on August 16, 2006, 12:11:08

Quote from: tim on August 15, 2006, 12:20:40
Fascinating, Bunny!  77lb? Which Goliath pulled that?? Mine is only 37lb. . But it claimed fish in the Pacific in 1957, & other things since.

I first 'did it' with the Royal Company in Edinburgh in the '40s. The real thing. No sights or balance weights etc!!

Keep making them - things of beauty.

The 77lb bow was sold to a guy Nottingham

He wasn't wearing green by any chance was he?

LMAO

Would love to see photos.