A dashing sportsman is an inevitable pleasure for me to capture digitally. He is all sinew and fast twitching muscle, square jaw and squarer shoulders…look how the composite bow strains to the pull of his biceps…
Archery’s history has drawn me to an interesting piece of its past that may keep your dinner guests entertained with your chatter as they sip glass after glass of chilled Margaret River Verdehlo. Attila the Hun loved the use of his composite recurve bows. He reined as King from 434-453AD (in his Kingdom once located in modern-day Hungary) and dashed opposing armies while on horseback.
Attila embarked on a series of wars extending Hun rule from the Rhine across the Black Sea with the help of a 300,000+ strong army well stocked with longbows. Notwithstanding his boorish ways, while invading Northern Italy, he halted at the request of Pope Leo I. What a gentleman!! Attila returned home near present day Budapest but misfortune struck this lusty Archer: he dies in 453AD, choking to death of a nosebleed while in a drunken stupor after marrying another wife.
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