Archery (the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes) (1894)
Longman, C. J., Walrond, H. Col., Duke of Beaufort (Ed.) · Longmans, Green and Co. (London) · leaf 109
84 ARCHERY A totally different method of drawing the bow appears to have been occasionally practised from ancient times to the present day. It has never been much used, and though it enables a man to draw a very strong bow, it is clumsy and in- effective. The archer sits down, and placing one or… … back the string with both hands. Unless he lashes the bow on to his feet, or has remarkably prehensile toes, the bow must spring forward when it is loosed, much of the additional power gained must be lost, and the direction and elevation of the arrows rendered quite uncertain. By this method a man,…
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