my question is
1: when you are in melee combat and you have a buckler strapped to your arm and wielding a sword in the other can you use the raise shield action?
2: now suppose same conditions as above save that you are holding a bow in the hand that the buckler is strapped to. can you still do the raise shield action?
my thinking is you should because you cant use the bow as a weapon you need two hands to use it properly. in the middle ages archers would not drop their bows to draw a sword and pick up a shield. Normally they would have a buckler strapped to their bow arm and a short sword on the belt as a back up weapon. bows were expensive in the day.