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Originally Posted by VedalkenBear
After all, the samurai began as exactly the kind of mounted archer that dominated the medieval period in Asia.
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I think you are talking about Mongol horsemen, not samurai
I tried to google some English infomation about Yumi just a minute ago. Thousands of webpages are found but few of them even mentioned the effective killing range of classic yumi. Most of them are talking about Kyudo and self perfecting, I think it's pointless for westerner to care about its practical performance
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Anyway, two webpages are found when I search "japanese bow+effective range"
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/...amurai#Weapons
http://www.samurai-archives.com/ste.html
The first one said the yumi's effective range is 50 meters or less, and the second said it's only mere 30 meters.
In fact Japanese bow is still quite deadly at short range because japanese archers are very skilled at point-blank shooting and the heavy arrowhead can penetrate through some armor, but it depend on personal training, and point-blank shoot do little help in big battle.