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More likely they didn't shoot in volleys at all. When you can only hold the bow for a second or two even with lifelong training you can't really have volleys.
Longbow maybe not but shortbow, recurve, etc can be held for a while if you're willing to sacrifice accuracy.
How far apart does a group shot of arrows have to be before it's considered separate shots v a volley?
Yeah, that's a point I tried to make, sorry for not being precise enough.
Here's a great video of a well-trained longbowman shooting 160 and 210lb longbows (jump to 8 minutes). There is zero chance he's "holding" the draw.
https://youtu.be/MjY2QrU4sm4
Why not? It just won't be as tight as in movies
We can have a rain of arrows then, right?
They wouldn't shoot arrows up into the air, like in movies, because then you lose all the power of the arrow. They would be fired as direct as possible to give the arrow the most speed and thus the highest chance of piercing armour.
You'd be shooting around 40-50 degrees for a 250yd shot. You want the best ballistic trajectory you can without sacrificing distance. Arrows, like bullets, travel in an arc so while they wouldn't shoot directly up they would shoot at a fairly high angle for anything past 50 yds or so.
Depends how far away the target is. Done some long range shooting before and sometimes you really do shoot up in the air because unless you aim up at 30-45° the arrow isn't going to go far enough.
Yes, hence the "as possible". I just mean, they wouldn't fire into the air like they do in movies at like 70+ degrees.
So, it wpuld be a drizzle of arrows then
Last time I checked, rain drops didn't come in volleys.
But, well, that was weeks ago, maybe it changed.
Yesterday they certainly did
Storm bands go brrrr