Hmmm, you are probably right in some settings, especially like when the English used the Yew long bow to rain down arrows from a distance on an oncoming army. The English countryman may have been a superior shot, which we don’t know for sure. The English long bow had a maximum range of about 250 yards and the Yaqui sinew backed Osage bow had a range of about 220 yards. The Yaqui bow was shorter and had a lighter draw weight than the long bow. The American Indian was a really great horseman and could shoot arrows in very rapid succession on horseback. He however was also an accurate shooter and one of the stealthiest fighters that ever lived. You might have had an arrow in your chest or back before you knew he was anywhere around. Although there is no way of proving it, I have been told that my great grandmother was a full blooded Indian slave, purchased by my great grandfather (a French Canadian). The blood line may have been Blackfoot/Yaqui. By the way, I have a stone work axe handed down from her. The other blood in my veins is from England and the Emerald isles so I like both sides of this story. -- Tex
