Thread: The Way We War
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Old 03-05-2009, 06:54 AM   #55
Alfirin
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While we're on the subject of bows, I had one quick question.

While watcing a program on the Crusades some time ago. I remeber them talking long about somthing called the "Saracen Draw", a method of firing a bow using the thumb rather than the first two fingers to draw the string back. I seem to recall them saying that, while generally less effective than the english method, it did have one or two advantages (it think its advantage was that while you couln't shoot quite as far, the force at which your shot hit was more reliably predictable) so my question is which draw do you think the people of ME used or did they use both? I keep think that while the west would have used the English, the sourthernly people like the Haradrim might have used the Saracen.
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