Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago
Speed shooting arrows is an ancient technique and one I know almost nothing about and certainly not how to do it, so I enlisted a teacher......
Who better than David from Blumineck, an extraordinary You Tuber who loves speed shooting and as it turns out is a great teacher.
Confusion, messups and general inability is where I began and a hour later I could speed shoot (sort of) - fantastic!
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Speed shooting arrows is an ancient technique and one I know almost nothing about and certainly not how to do it, so I enlisted a teacher......
Who better than David from Blumineck, an extraordinary You Tuber who loves speed shooting and as it turns out is a great teacher.
Confusion, messups and general inability is where I began and a hour later I could speed shoot (sort of) - fantastic!
For excellent quality historical replicas including merch todcutler.com
For historical commissions and custom todsworkshop.com
We also have a Patreon page which really helps.https://www.patreon.com/c/TodsWorkshop
For slightly more niche historical content, we have a second channel here youtube.com/@Tod_Cutler
You can find Davids amazing YT shorts here youtube.com/@blumineck
![Flaming Trebuchet darts!!!
Incendiary trebuchet darts were real!!!!! (or at least I believe they were).
Trebuchets were the pinnacle of siege weapons in the 13thC and 14thC but we usually think of them as shooting rocks, baskets of rocks, rotting sheep etc, but the Islamic nations also shot darts. I have tried it before but with mixed success. But I have been sent a translation of a Mameluke text where they say where the hook should be placed and that they threw inflammable mixtures attached to the darts.
Time to revisit - with very mixed and somewhat dangerous results...........
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PAUL E. CHEVEDDEN
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH
Black Camels and Blazing Bolts: The Bolt-Projecting Trebuchet
in the Mamluk Army pp235-7
If you want to shoot bolts (nushsha_b)—some of which are filled with inflammable material (al-na_r) and sticky gums (or resins) (liza_qa_t) and others are not—from a trebuchet (manjan|q) [do as follows]. If you want that [i.e., to shoot bolts], put a hook (kulla_b)14 at the center of gravity (‘idl) of the bolt (al-nushsha_b). Flaming Trebuchet darts!!!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ohq3a5bShR0/mqdefault.jpg)









