Late roman archery (aiming)!

[Virilis]

Good points again, guys!

Of course you will use your back muscles when shooting, also in traditional archery. I still believe that you should also be able to shoot very accurately individual targets, not just masses. In my limited experience I will hit a running enemy from 30-40 metres quite accurately (I know the "real thing" is very different :wink: ). I remember a finnish women`s magazine`s reporter asking from a Finnish winter war`s veteran that "Is it very hard to shoot a living human being?" and the veteran answered that "Yes it is, those bastards tend to move all the time!" :wink: .....

To measure the distance when shooting, that`s where the instincts really come to play. It is quite amazing when I am shooting and changing the distance and altitude of the target how one is able to measure instinctively the shot. I have some kind of "mind picture" of the whole process of shooting, not just the limited view along the arrow shaft. To make some kind of marks on the bow or arrow shafts just is a too limited approach in my view...

Ps. I will go to the country tomorrow to shoot for a couple of days and maybe fishing a bit, life is sometimes gooooood!!!