And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Mongol bow?
ReplyDelete... and I always thought the arrow rests on the other side of the bow.
ReplyDeleteGuess that's why I'm a rifleman.
Stuart, in a traditional longbow it does. On a modern recurve, the arrow sits on the same side as the hand holding the bow.
ReplyDeleteMakes sense, they didn't have rest and certainly not a Whisker Biscuit back then. At least not the trademarked one
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