{"product_id":"2940016096490","title":"The Theory and Practice of Archery","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    CHAPTER                                                    PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       I.  OF THE ENGLISH LONG-BOW                                1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      II.  HOW TO CHOOSE A BOW, AND HOW TO USE AND PRESERVE\u003cbr\u003e               IT WHEN CHOSEN                                    17\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     III.  OF THE ARROW                                          27\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      IV.  OF THE STRING, BRACER, AND SHOOTING-GLOVE             44\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       V.  OF THE GREASE-BOX, TASSEL, BELT, ETC.                 67\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      VI.  OF BRACING, OR STRINGING, AND NOCKING                 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     VII.  OF ASCHAM'S FIVE POINTS, POSITION STANDING, ETC.      83\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    VIII.  DRAWING                                               94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      IX.  AIMING                                               107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       X.  OF HOLDING AND LOOSING                               122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XI.  OF DISTANCE SHOOTING, AND DIFFERENT ROUNDS           132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XII.  ARCHERY SOCIETIES, 'RECORDS,' ETC.                   140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XIII.  THE PUBLIC ARCHERY MEETINGS AND THE DOUBLE\u003cbr\u003e               YORK AND OTHER ROUNDS                            148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XIV.  CLUB SHOOTING AND PRIVATE PRACTICE                   279\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_PLATES._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    PORTRAIT OF MR. FORD                             _Frontispiece_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    PORTRAIT OF MAJOR C. H. FISHER                 _To face p. 122_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eARCHERY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_OF THE ENGLISH LONG-BOW_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf the various implements of archery, the bow demands the first\u003cbr\u003econsideration. It has at one period or another formed one of the chief\u003cbr\u003eweapons of war and the chase in almost every nation, and is, indeed, at\u003cbr\u003ethe present day in use for both these purposes in various parts of the\u003cbr\u003eworld. It has differed as much in form as in material, having been made\u003cbr\u003ecurved, angular, and straight; of wood, metal, horn, cane, whalebone, of\u003cbr\u003ewood and horn, or of wood and the entrails and sinews of animals and\u003cbr\u003efish combined: sometimes of the rudest workmanship, sometimes finished\u003cbr\u003ewith the highest perfection of art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo work exists which aims at giving an exhaustive description of the\u003cbr\u003evarious forms of bows which have been used by different nations in\u003cbr\u003eancient and modern times, and such an undertaking would be far beyond\u003cbr\u003ethe scope of the present work. The only form of the bow with which we\u003cbr\u003eare now concerned is the _English long-bow_, and especially with the\u003cbr\u003eEnglish long-bow as now used for target-shooting as opposed to the more\u003cbr\u003epowerful weapon used by our forefathers for the purposes of war. The\u003cbr\u003ecross-bow never took a very strong hold on the English nation as\u003cbr\u003ecompared with the long-bow, and, as it has never been much employed for\u003cbr\u003erecreation, it need not be here described.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a matter of surprise and regret that so few genuine specimens of\u003cbr\u003ethe _old_ English long-bow should remain in existence at the present\u003cbr\u003eday. One in the possession of the late Mr. Peter Muir of Edinburgh is\u003cbr\u003esaid to have been used in the battle of Flodden in 1513: it is of\u003cbr\u003eself-yew, a single stave, apparently of English growth, and very roughly\u003cbr\u003emade. Its strength has been supposed to be between 80 and 90 lbs.; but\u003cbr\u003eas it could not be tested without great risk of breaking it, its actual\u003cbr\u003estrength remains a matter of conjecture only. This bow was presented to\u003cbr\u003eMr. P. Muir by Colonel J. Ferguson, who obtained it from a border house\u003cbr\u003econtiguous to Flodden Field, where it had remained for many generations,\u003cbr\u003ewith the reputation of having been used at that battle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are likewise in the Tower two bows that were taken out of the\u003cbr\u003e'Mary Rose,' a vessel sunk in the reign of Henry VIII. They are\u003cbr\u003eunfinished weapons, made out of single staves of magnificent yew,\u003cbr\u003eprobably of foreign growth, quite round from end to end, tapered from\u003cbr\u003ethe middle to each end, and without horns. It is difficult to estimate\u003cbr\u003etheir strength, but it probably does not exceed from 65 to 70 lbs.\u003cbr\u003eAnother weapon now in the Museum of the United Service Institution came\u003cbr\u003efrom the same vessel. Probably the oldest specimen extant of the English\u003cbr\u003elong-bow is in the possession of Mr. C. J. Longman. It was dug out of\u003cbr\u003ethe peat near Cambridge, and is unfortunately in very bad condition. It\u003cbr\u003ecan never have been a very powerful weapon. Geologists say that it\u003cbr\u003ecannot be more recent than the twelfth or thirteenth century, and may be\u003cbr\u003emuch more ancient. Indeed, from its appearance it is more probable that\u003cbr\u003eit is a relic of the weaker archery of the Saxons than that it is a\u003cbr\u003eweapon made after the Normans had introduced their more robust shooting\u003cbr\u003einto this country.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146450223344,"sku":"2940016096490","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016096490","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}