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Hi Otis, This is an excellent post. I've been slowly becoming more eager to make a selfbow over the past few months and you have given my eagerness more of a boost. :biggrin: I've made a few laminated bows with my mates form, and have made only one selfbow. But once the selfbow was complete, I found...

Hi Perry, I find your mention of target panic interesting and I think its more common than people think. I've seen a number of mates shoot with impeccable form and then struggle when it came to hitting the target. I'm not sure whether it was target panic making them rush, or a lapse of concentration...

Hi Yeoman,

I like the look of your handle design. It seems like a nicer way to get more centre-shot into a bow without cutting a deeper rest into a handle.

Daryl, the warped limbs of that Walter L Gaskell design make me cringe

Cheers,
Scuzz

I think the pistol-type grips seen on most recurves would not take very well to being strangled. I shoot longbows with either howard-hill style, or dean torges-bulbous grips and I strangle them. Strangle with the grip but push through with the palm. I have never had a problem with the bow torquing, ...

Looking forward to it!

Hi Muz, I'm only an amateur bowyer, but I have used 120 thou, red elm laminations in a 66" D/R design with no noticeable durability problems. I decided to use three laminations of higher thickness so I could save a lam of the timber for another bow as well as minimising lam grinding time. I fou...

"Tradtional Archery is about upholding our traditions and our heritage". This seems to be the mentality that is creating division within this post. I think this only promotes exclusion and prevents the traditional archery community from growing. Barebow, no wheels, wooden arrows. These ba...

Hi Guys, I think you have a good point hunterguy. An assumption in most beams calculations is that the material is homogeneous. If you assumed that the timber was homogeneous (despite being generalised as non-homogeneous) for calculations sake, it would definitely become non-homogeneous when laminat...

I guess I'm moving to Germany :Pack Once I started watching this I couldn't stop until it was finished. It definitely seemed to capture the spirit of traditional archery and I find it so interesting that this spirit seems to be so universal between different countries. It made made me feel all gooey...

And of those longbows, how many were straight longbows and how many semi-recurve modern longbows :) There's always one person who stirs the pot! :lol: While I apprecite all of the philosophical thoughts on the number 42, I find the consideration between recurve and longbow interesting. If we had an...

Hi Mick, I find back tension is necessary to get the forearm of your draw-arm inline with your arrow. I find that without back tension your more prone to throwing your bow arm to the left (for a right hander) due to missalignment and possibly throwing your bow arm the other way through subconscious ...

I havn't read the other thread links, but this is my view. I think he's skill in fast shooting is impressive, and I think such a shooting style would me highly effective in a busy close-combat situation. I wouldn't have any hesitation to praise him on his achievement if he had have presented the vid...

I find eye alignment to be highly important for keeping your shot inline with your target from any distance. After the alignment is achieved its just a matter of judging the distance (instinctively or otherwise). When I was highly practiced I shot from different cant angles, from standing, kneeling ...

I shot a great deal in my teenage years and was constantly having troubles with arrow flight. I did try bare shaft tuning but didn't know enough to get any benefit out of it. Now that I shoot far less, I seem to do more arrow and bow making and ironically I have the best flying arrows that I have ev...

Hi Mick, Around 6 months ago I believe I had some kind of rotator cuff injury in my right shoulder. I injured it while trying to learn to swim butterfly. Since this my shoulder feels a lot stronger, strong enough for my to shoot 65lb or swim 2km freestyle without pain. But my hurt shoulder doesn't f...

Did they anchor behind their ear? That would have to add a few inches to the average draw length of shooters (if so).

Shoooters with longer draws do seem to get flatter projectory.

Scuzz

Could I point out that bigbob does not have a problem of any kind with his new arrows? He told us that in his first post. What exactly is this debate about??? Congratulate him on his success and move on. Bob states how well the carbon arrows with 'VANES' flew out of his bow, and also states how he ...

Evening Andy. You can compare bows if you run some tests against them with some standard measurement to get some sort of ranking. e.g. Bow Efficiency. However when you start comparing bows against each over with not so easily measurable items it becomes harder. If you take the same riser and change...

As soon as a bow starts to have reflex in the limb's when strung, it's pretty much screaming 'semi recurve' to me. The wide, thin look of the limbs seems to concrete my view.

Scuzz

I've always felt the most competitive shooters at trad shoots were instinctive shooters with consistant form. Whether they have dynamic/static anchors or any other variation of form. I have seen some shooters short draw instinctively at very close targets with decent accuracy. It can be eliminated w...

I can see why you would hold the bow as little as possible in field shooting, aiming at a stationary target and at a long distance. But at trad events (or possibly hunting situations) there are moving targets, speed shooting etc. I could see a 'field' type grip hindering fluency of a shot sequence i...

I've found that shooting a bow that is heavier seems to encourage a premature release and that dropping to a lighter bow for practicing purposes helps to inbed the good habit of a consistant anchor. I see what Kendaric is saying about a lighter poundage, and i have no doubt that you can be competiti...

My best childhood hunting memories are of shooting rabbits and hares. Well done.

Scuzz

Im against the whole 'allocated groups' idea. While some valid points have already been made, i would like to make another. I had an enormous lack of confidence as a teenager and ABA's ruling for allocated groups only served to make me anxious and uncomfortable. I think anyone who has a 'quiet' chil...

1, 27 2, Engineering student/Fitter and Machinist 3, Cooks Hill, Newcastle NSW 4, My knowledge is minimal. I only hear of this problem by word of mouth, media and the odd documentary. I have never conducted in any self research. It seems there is apparent problems of potential over-population, with ...

Hi Mick I'm not trying to put a downer on your new purchase, but a friend of mine bought one of these and he gave it away. He was convinced that these were for 'compounders' as he was breaking arrows on the angled edges (obviously missing the frontal target face). I practice at 30 meters and im pret...

Hi Sabinus

I have just recently finished my first selfbow and i found a 'gizmo' of sorts to be VERY helpful to a newbie, and if nothing else a good check to use to compare with what the bend on the tree seems to be showing.

Cheers,
Scuzz

I seem to think that if a bow has a reflexed curvature to the limb when braced, it is a little bit closer to being a recurve than a longbow. I shoot asymmetrical D/R (or R/D) bows, I now make with no cut in shelf. The arrow needs to deflect around a 3/8 offset from centre. They also have a straight ...

I would assume that you need to rotate your head away from where it is at full draw, giving more space between your nose and string path. You should still be able to get your eye in line with the arrow.

Scuzz

Im a sucker for backed bows no matter how many lams. I like your work!

Scuzz