https://www.wikihow.com/Make-an-Arrow
Focus on the recurved bows in this table.
As a kid I had a 60 lb ash bow (not recurved). I could not draw it back even half way. But at the length I could draw it, I could send an arrow straight up so high I lost sight of it. The longest shot I ever took with it was on one of the fairgrounds parking fields. I estimate that arrow carried 50 yards or so. In the hands of a good archer it would have carried at least twice that far. That bow was “armor piercing” in the right hands. The English at Agincourt had something very similar.
Compound bows achieve something very similar but with less effort. One thing your clever Israelite armorers may have come up with was a way to get another 5 lbs out of a bow that appears to only be, say, 30 lbs.
Afterthought: 260 yards is about as long a drive as a good golfer can hit.
- http://www.historyofarchery.com/archery-history/composite-bow/
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https://odinsonarchery.com/composite-bows-weapon-of-ancient-nomadic-equestrian-cultures/
https://legioilynx.com/2012/04/19/composite-bows-weapon-of-ancient-nomadic-equestrian-cultures/
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