Crossbows vs. Longbows

[rdonj]

Originally Posted by JimMorrison

You are gleefully missing the point. He said that working with less sophisticated equipment creates a better operator. The point boiled down to this - take a modern compound bow, and remove the sights and other "archer aids". Odds are, that the classically trained longbowman will operate that bow at a level superior to a modern archery student, who has only ever fired a bow with all of the modern accessories.

Bingo!

<3 JM


For the record, I'm on neither side of the debate. I was actually arguing a completely seperate point