Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 31 | 644 | The View more quotes about long">long bow, naturally, has a much greater rapidity of fire. |
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Book 26. (7 results) Witness of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 31 | 641 | Some such weapons are set by a windlass, but those these men carried were more swiftly prepared for fire. |
| 31 | 642 | They could be drawn with two hands, the bow held down, a foot in the stirrup. |
| 31 | 643 | It would take a moment, of course, to free the bow, to draw it, to set it, to extract a quarrel from the quiver, to arm it. |
| 31 | 644 | The long bow, naturally, has a much greater rapidity of fire. |
| 31 | 645 | This bow, on the other hand, once set, like a firearm, remains ready for fire. |
| 31 | 646 | It is useful in cramped spaces, in close quarters, in room-to-room fighting. |
| 31 | 647 | It is an alert weapon, responsive to the trigger; its opportunity need not be more prolonged than the movement of the target across a passageway; it is a patient weapon; it can wait quietly, motionlessly, for a long time, for its target to appear. |
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Some such weapons are set by a windlass, but those these men carried were more swiftly prepared for fire.
They could be drawn with two hands, the bow held down, a foot in the stirrup.
It would take a moment, of course, to free the bow, to draw it, to set it, to extract a quarrel from the quiver, to arm it.
The long bow, naturally, has a much greater rapidity of fire.
This bow, on the other hand, once set, like a firearm, remains ready for fire.
It is useful in cramped spaces, in close quarters, in room-to-room fighting.
It is an alert weapon, responsive to the trigger; its opportunity need not be more prolonged than the movement of the target across a passageway; it is a patient weapon; it can wait quietly, motionlessly, for a long time, for its target to appear.
- (Witness of Gor)