User blog comment:Pygmy Hippo 2/Oliver Cromwell vs. Takeda Shingen/@comment-17814994-20190408144602/@comment-27358240-20190409044539

Elgb. Stop it. Get some help.

You have to stop with that "40 yards" bullshit with the Yumi. If we go by historical records, we have Chinese accounts which state Japanese arrows can be propelled up to 163 meters in a straight line, that arrow being a fletchless one. Modern, weak reconstructions of Yumis can, in Toshiya tournaments, fire arrows multiple hundreds of meters away. Nobutsuna Kamiizumi has stated that the Yumi is to be used against enemies beyond 90 meters of yourself. And thinking logically, how is a bow that had a draw weight of 80 kg (176 lbs for you Americans) supposed to have a range of 40 meters? Why do you think the bow was the most lethal weapon in Japanese warfare for so long, and why do you think it wasn't discarded even after the arrival of firearms? Yeah, it's because they were good at killing from far away, that's why.