| Good points about the physique - I might concede you have a point there.
"try to imagine picking an 8 stone person with just your right arm over and over again. after the first few times if you haven't developed your muscles you get very tired, very quickly."
If that is true then granted its going to take an absolute brute to fire off more than 10 arrows in a single battle. How many people can lift up an eight stone person wiht one arm now?
However:
"a popular past time in england and wales in the early medieval period"
Who had time for past times in the early medieval period?
Professional soldiers and guards perhaps - but everyday peasants? no
So were longbowmen units made up of professional soldiers?
The thing is my hisotrical knowledge is more biased towards social history. =)
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