Hi it's Tod of Tod's Workshop and Tod Cutler here and today I'm back with the lockdown longbow's
little brother. Well it's turned out I've made a mistake and that is not the little brother,
that is the baby brother, and what I've done, is I've cropped down,
I've shortened one of my existing crossbows and this is now the little brother.
So what went wrong? Well, I read your comments and it seems that the estimate that I put on
this for a 95 pound English longbow was actually probably wrong and it's more like about a 75,
possibly an 80, but around that area and so what I've done is I've taken this one, I've shortened
it to a point where I think it's going to be throwing our arrows at the lower end of what
we assume to be an English longbow weight. Around the 120/130 pound mark, something like that. So
what we're going to do now is take all three of these, the baby brother, the new little brother,
and the original lockdown longbow, we'll take them down the range with our arrows,
we'll shoot them at a shield and compare visually. Just see how they perform against each other,
but then also we'll put it through a chronograph, get the numbers and we'll see how it references
against Joe Gibbs's work because I'm basically using him and his shooting his weights as a
reference point for what I'm doing here really. Right let's go down the range. So out there now,
20 odd meters away, we've got my old trusty shield up we'll come shoot at it, compare them,
see what it does. We've got a chronograph, we'll put it through that and we have the
stunt chickens in full effect. No chickens will be harmed in the making of this production.
Nice! So top right hand corner that is the area of the shield which has been
the least shot before so that's where I'm going to put all of my arrows today;
I hope. Oh, and the number we all wanted sorry was 191 feet per second.
Lovely another one straight square in the middle of the shield 189.5
And these arrows are 64 gram arrows, 64/65 gram arrows, needle bodkins.
And what have I learnt there today? Don't shoot your GoPro cameras for the second time they're
expensive. So if you want to sponsor me GoPro, I would love it but it'll be a high maintenance job.
Secondly Hero7s - not proof against needle bodkins. Thirdly don't shoot GoPro, cameras
they break your arrows.
Next up after that slightly violent diversion,
the baby brother and again this is shooting 64 gram arrows.
Well above the GoPro, but yes straight, pretty much where I want it Oh magic number 155.4
155.1
152 and then the last stop of course
is the original lockdown longbow and that's shooting 85 gram arrows. Really long draw
length compared to the modified one which I shortened, feels really weird, looks really weird.
176
187 probably different weight of arrows I would imagine
because you know they are natural things after all. Lovely 175. So
well this is our shield and the first thing it tells you is shields are handy things to have.
Now if we look at the back of this this one, this one and this one, are all off
the original lockdown longbow, 160 pound longbow simulator coming through 10/12 cm out the back.
The two needle bodkins, two yeah? not three, the two needle bodkins are coming through
8/9 cm something like that and they're off our new lower end warbow simulator the big,
uh the little brother now. This one here, here and then one stuck behind the padding
those are off the baby brother so the 75 pound longbow simulator thereabouts. So really
that tells you a story, you've got a really good range of powers here that we can move forward
with our tests this time without me having made a mistake, well except for the GoPro. Back to base
we have a very straightforward conclusion today and that is that the modified crossbow the new
lockdown longbows little brother is putting out 64 gram arrows at 192 feet per second and that
is just under Joe Gibbs's 195 feet per second for his 130 pound Mary Rose bow with the same
weight arrows so we're going to say, I'm going to say that the lockdown longbow's little brother is
now equivalent to around about 120 pound English longbow. Now when this whole lockdown malarkey is
over we'll get Joe down with a variety of bows and we'll basically pit them against each other
and just make sure that I got my numbers right, but for the moment I think that I have corrected
my mistake and we have 160 pound longbow about, 120 pound longbow about, and a 75 pound longbow
about. Of course longbows are all different but it's in that kind of order anyway. Thank
you very much and I hope I have clarified that a little bit. I'm off to buy a camera next time.