I dont make bows, I shot them, I study about them, as for yew wood, well, no shit sherlock, it is very hard to find yew, let alone a decent piece, now if you have made selfbows out of yew more power to you, what three rivers has though is many men that live and breath archery in general, I have seen johnny the owners son make a bow, it was out of maple though, a shorter longbow, and many of the bows they have english style are rudderbows, or composits but they shoot with more cast then any self.

as for making them I cant speak for the whole karch family, but dale and sandy the owners, designed a real fine bow in the tommahawk bow line, and the great plains archery company that makes the bows for them, they are worth every penny it costs for one, I dont know if they make true english long bows, and sarry for the cussing but even pacific yew here is rare.

I know that 3 rivers make many good bows. And being a bowyer I'm too well aware of how hard it is to find high quality yew. Still, all I really wanted to point out was that the bows from the MR are more powerful than up to 120 lb. And if you study bows as you say, then please read the books "weapons of warre". And then sign up for the FB group "bad ass archers". There we are many bowyers and archers dedicated to warbow archery, and several people making warbows based on the MR bows. (tbc)

(continue). Another interesting discussion is wether the laminated warbows outshoot the best yew bows. My experience is that they don't when it comes to war arrows. Check out the flight record list you find on theenglishwarbowsociety and see for yourself. Laminated bows only hold the record for flight arrows, while yew bows are equal or better in all three of the war arrow categories. I'm open to believe that you are able to make laminations that are as good as equal to the best yew though.

um well I dont really do facebook, I do study a bit into differant bows, my facination is the japanese bow the yumi, did quite a bit of looking at those, as for war bows well I know a little, I know what I have heard, but sometimes conflicting about the whole bodkin style point, that it was simple iron, and on the other hand that it was not just iron but an early reinforced steel which was easier to make then reinforced armor as it was smaller, as for the arrows they were 1/4 inch and were heavy

cont, the 1/4 inch shafts were much heavier then of course the modern day ones and would have more momentem comming down as they were often fired in an arc and would rain down, therefore offseting the lost energy from the distance, and that since even many pesants had bows their numbers were large, and would train from childhood, shooting over 1000 arrows a day, and since the bow also was a means to get food it was a necessity, as for the huge weight they say its about technique not strenght.

cont, so that even a small man could draw a very large weight bow, I on the otherhand cant even shoot 45 longbow decent and doubt I could ever pull back something warbow weight far enough to launch an arrow, as for my english style bow, its bamboo and hickory made by Stephen Thompson who was trained by bow ledgend Jaap Koppedrayer, and not only are they friends, but he helped make the cores for the yumi bows for the movie last samuri, so he is fairly good, my bow is 40 lbs at 28, made in 2010

cont, so as for the bows, they say the yew was often imported from spain and portugal, till of course the war over the church, and that they would also use wytch wood and were actually based from a type of bow that the welsh had made before the english adopted it, but I dont doubt the claim that the bows were upward that weight. as it were they were also shot off the knuckle, but mine though being a custom I cheat a little and have an arrow shelf on it otherwise the arrow falls off even canting

Bodkins are not armour-piercing.
Historical bodkins were made of iron, which is not hard.
A bodkin tipped arrow shot from even a very powerful bow will not pierce period mail worn over a gambeson. It certainly won't pierce steel plate armour.

You must be typical representative of USA citizen with full of stupidity and nonsense for these interesting things.