What kind of archery is this?

[SecretPrepper]

I am guessing the draw weight made it impossible to shoot unless you used the big leg muscles. So you can send arrows further and not be as close to the enemy. Have you looked at anchient chinese military tactics. might be something about it there/

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according to this forum it was exaggerated by hollywood http://www.allempires.com/forum/forum_po...?TID=23038

the guys says about the Han

Kind of. Hero wasn't exactly accurate when portraying them. I don't these these type of Archers existed during the Qin, but according to Han murals, they existed during the Han. The archers would sit and use their legs to draw a crossbow. However, they would still stand up to shoot the crossbow. The movie shows them shooting in a sitting position, as well as taking two people to reload. This is inaccurate.

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After some research on this forum http://www.chinahistoryforum.com/index.p...70&&page=2

i think it was an ebelished story of bows that could be shot from far away and pierce armor. There are incredible weights for bows and from what i understand a lot of history from that time was recorded in song so hard to get details.

If you want to make one i think you would need bamboo and a crank to pull back with. no idea what you could use for string