@Matchstick said:
@Lord_Johnathan said:
As someone who's tried both forms of bow, I can tell you that you need an assload more force and effort to pull back an old longbow or composite bow, but a modern bow needs much less effort to do the same and can actually bring out more force due to it's modern pulley systems and stronger materials. Firing medieval bows with a great deal of force is really exhausting over long periods of time, even for someone who's had some degree of archery practice for a while like me, my arm was sore in about two minutes of maintaining that "six shots a minute" rate. A modern bow will let you achieve greater force with less effort, you can fire a modern bow with chain mail piercing force pretty much all day long because the Bow does much of the work for you.
There are a few problems with applying your comparison here. 1) It's impossible to apply an accurate comparison between a real life long bow and a fictional elven bow. 2)Legolas is an elf and has better stamina than a normal man. Remember that part where he ran for 3 days straight? Normal people don't have the stamina to do that. 3)We don't know your level of skill. For all we know you're doing it wrong. 4) Legolas has never shown fatigue due to using a bow in any of the movies or literature and he's been a part of some huge battles.
@SHAZAM117 said:
To his credit, Legs does have better eye sight/vision(someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought I read or heard somewhere they can even see in the dark) and is probably quicker than all three of his human opponents....That being said, he would probably eventually lose this fight....In a One on one shootout, I'd take the Elf over any of these three personally.
Close, they can see well in near darkness. In total darkness they are just as blind as everyone else but by moonlight they can see perfectly.
I may be a woman of slight build, but my technique is more or less right, though it's a tad awkward for Longbows, those things are just about six feet tall. As for the difference in the bows, as neither the real world or the elven bow had any simple mechanical systems like the pulleys used in modern composite bows, you still need to do all the work in drawing the string. This takes both some time if you want enough force behind your shot to pierce armor (I could only barely maintain four-ish shots a minute if I wanted enough force to go through chainmail), and a lot more effort. In a modern compound bow, the bow can be short bow sized, allowing for more room to maneuver, while still providing more force for less effort.
To my knowledge Legolas wears chainmail right? While it seems the writers sometimes aren't sure if the archers have body armor or not. Though something that can stop a 9mm may not necessarily stop a longbow fired arrow.
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