Chapter 047: Giant bow and arrow, amazingly powerful!
"The bowman rubs the wood and strings it to shoot the arrow." The most important process of making a bow is bow training.
The British longbow is a simple arc type. It does not have the complex shape of the Mongolian horn bow or the Chinese recurve bow. Therefore, the bow cannot be bent by roasting it. This will reduce the tension of the bow, but it cannot be bent in place at once.
, otherwise the back of the bow will break. Even if it does not break, it will cause internal injuries and lose elasticity. The bow will be useless.
In order to allow the back of the bow to gradually adapt to the bending process, when training the bow, Lin Shuhang would let the back of the bow "rest" for half an hour every time he increased the force. The reason for this is to release the internal stress of the bow body and prevent the wood from growing.
Damaged by time bending.
Lin Shuhang's stiff bow was tamed until the bow formed a uniform arc in his hand.
The next step is to string the bow.
Before the advent of industrial chemical fibers, people generally used sheep intestines and animal sinews to make bowstrings.
Animal tendons have strong elasticity and good toughness, allowing bows and arrows to maximize their effectiveness.
Of course, primitive bows and arrows also used hemp rope to make bowstrings. For example, some indigenous tribes in the African rainforest used hemp rope to tan their bowstrings.
It's just that compared to bowstrings made of animal tendons, bowstrings made of hemp rope are much less efficient.
In order to maximize the power of his hunting bow, Lin Shuhang initially wanted to use animal sinews to make bow strings.
But the problem is that the giant bow he made is five meters long, and ordinary animals simply don't have such long tendons. The size of animals with such long tendons exceeds 30 meters.
With Lin Shuhang's current abilities, he was still unable to hunt those dangerous large creatures, so he could only resort to using hemp rope to make bowstrings.
"Wait until you catch prey before upgrading your equipment!"
Lin Shuhang gave up the idea of using animal tendons to make bow strings, picked up the stone hammer again and walked out of the camp.
He was going to find some vines with flexible fibers to make bowstrings.
In addition to big trees, the most indispensable thing in the forest is vines. Not long after, Lin Shuhang pulled back a black tree vine from the forest.
This kind of tree vine is as thick as Lin Shuhang's finger and very flexible. Lin Shuhang spent a lot of effort to cut it from an ancient tree.
After stringing the hunting bow, Lin Shuhang tested the feel of the bow and only pulled out one-third of the bow.
This was mainly because Lin Shuhang had injured his arm. Although the broken bones had basically fused, it would still take some time to return to his original strength.
"A perfect stiff bow!"
Lin Shuhang held the homemade giant bow and couldn't put it down.
He estimated that after his injured arm healed, there wouldn't be much of a problem in drawing the bow for a full month.
The so-called bow and arrow, when you have a bow, it is natural to have an arrow.
There are hundreds of types of bows in the world, and there are naturally even more types of arrows.
Traditional arrows are generally made of wood or bamboo shafts, with bone arrowheads, stone arrowheads or iron arrowheads at the top, and feathers at the tail.
According to the range and power, they are divided into heavy arrows and light arrows.
Heavy arrows are generally made of hardwoods such as ash and hornbeam. Due to their heavy weight, the range of heavy arrows is not very far. However, if equipped with iron arrowheads, the penetrating power is very terrifying. In ancient wars, they were often used against armored soldiers.
Heavy cavalry.
Light arrows are made of poplar, birch, willow and other relatively mature trees. Light arrows are light in weight, so they shoot quickly and have a long range, usually reaching a range of three to four hundred meters.
For Lin Shuhang, both heavy arrows and light arrows are indispensable.
Heavy arrows have a small range but high lethality, and can kill large creatures such as wild boars and Tyrannosaurus rex at close range.
Although the lethality of light arrows is not as good as that of heavy arrows, their shooting speed and range are unmatched by heavy arrows. They can be used to hunt highly sensitive animals, such as pterosaurs and rabbits.
Compared with bows, making arrows is much less difficult, but if the wrong materials are chosen, the power of the arrows will be greatly reduced.
Lin Shuhang regarded bamboo as the first choice material for making arrow shafts.
Although bamboo has many knots, it has good durability, which means it can be used repeatedly. Even if it hits a hard object, it can still be used normally after repair.
Wooden arrows are useless. They are basically useless if they hit a hard object. They are disposable consumables.
Besides, I had neither tools nor time in this forest, so I could only use bamboo as an arrow rod.
Lin Shuhang returned to the previous bamboo forest and brought back a large amount of bamboo.
These bamboos are all carefully selected by Lin Shuhang. They are relatively straight and almost the same thickness.
"Try it first to see how powerful it is."
Lin Shuhang decided to try the power of bow and arrow.
"Try the power of this bow first!"
Lin Shuhang placed a piece of bamboo without arrowheads on the homemade English longbow.
In order to test the performance of the bow, Lin Shuhang placed a 5 cm diameter bamboo on the bowstring, then put the bow on the bow and pulled the arrow, and shot an arrow into the distance.
The bent bow arm suddenly rebounded, and driven by the bow string, the two-meter-long bamboo flew rapidly towards the distance with a harsh whistling sound.
Since there are no arrowheads or feathers added to the moso bamboo, huge force acts on the bamboo, making the moso bamboo become as soft as noodles in the air.
This has a professional term in the field of bows and arrows - "deflection". Simply put, it is the quantified value of the deformation of the arrow shaft after being subjected to stress.
The shot bamboo swings back and forth in the air, making a graceful leaping trajectory.
After passing through a bush, he hit a big tree with a "pop" sound.
After colliding with the big tree, the huge force caused the entire bamboo to explode instantly.
Among the bamboo fragments all over the sky, a deep hole as big as a bowl was left on the big tree.
"It seems that the power is still good, and the arrowheads will definitely be even more powerful than this."
Lin Shuhang was very satisfied with the strength of the bow. After putting the bow away, he started making arrowheads.
The history of arrowheads is the same as the history of bows, born in the ancient Stone Age.
At that time, human ancestors had just invented bows and arrows. Since they did not understand metal smelting technology, they used stones, bones, shells, and animal teeth to make arrowheads for a long time. It was not until civilization progressed and smelting technology matured that they began
Bronze arrowheads, iron arrowheads and later steel arrowheads appeared in large quantities.
There are many types of arrowheads. Among the large family of arrowheads, stone arrowheads are the earliest and easiest to make.
Although its grinding process is relatively slow, its lethality is amazing.
For example, there is an arrowhead made of obsidian, which is hundreds of times sharper than the sharpest human scalpel.
Lin Shuhang found a few stones in the forest, smashed them into pieces with a stone hammer, squatted on the ground and polished stone arrowheads.
The production of stone arrowheads is not complicated, but it is extremely time-consuming. Because the stones have to be ground into the shape of the arrow bit by bit, it consumes the maker's patience.
Lin Shuhang was impatient and lost his patience after just grinding 5 stone arrowheads.
"No more grinding! Damn, it's such a waste of time."