Even More Archery
- nlhightauthor
- Jul 28, 2020
- 1 min read
Best archery GIF ever? Maybe.
As stated in previous posts, I enjoy archery despite not having drawn a bow since a trip to the renaissance festival in Larkspur, Colorado about a thousand years ago.
When I sat down and actually started researching VENDETTA, I realized archaeologists had come a long way in correcting the historical record. Mike Loades wrote an excellent book on English war bows, published by Osprey. It's served as a primary resource for me and, quite frankly, I like to think it's saved me from making a lot of silly mistakes when writing about archery.
Check it out on Amazon:
Loades wrote a book about composite bows, as well, but IMHO it's not quite as engaging.
Meanwhile, Tod's Workshop has produced a new series of videos which highlight penetrating power of arrows. He also applied beeswax to his arrowheads to improve their penetration and reasoned Medieval archers might have done the same thing. The results were pretty eye-opening. The experiment made me think about a fight scene in VENDETTA which described Angelo Anchioni and Stuart Heton deflecting arrows or absorbing them with shields. I mean, a re-write is out of the question. But I'll definitely keep it in mind while hammering away at END OF DAYS.
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