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Thanks for posting the pics and video Grahame. The slow-mo certainly let you get a good look at your own shooting style. And yes I do need to move the knocking point

Sorry Len, I don't think I explained myself properly. What I was trying to say was that whilst there are a large proportion of archers who shoot ELB's in the UK, they are not shooting them for renenactment or for historical accuracy. They are shooting them as a day to day bow, and shooting them with...

Len, From my experence of shooting in the UK, the vast majority of people who are shooting ELB's, whether victorian target bows or 'compass style warbows', are not shooting bows heavier than 50-60lb. The majority are in the 40-50lb range. With a bow of this draw weight, it is somewhat pointless IMO ...

Thanks for the information on the perry method Dennis. I had forgotten about the bowyers bibles I had gathering dust on the bookshelves I'll have a look in them. Although I do seem to remember that they manage to make simple instructions excessively complicated( maybe it's just me). From the way you...

Dennis,
you have 'lost' me with the 'perry reflexing method'
Could you explain or point me in the direction of an explanation please.

The tri lam bow is actually one I made at a bow building workshop at my old club in the UK. I agree with you that it is down to the skill of the archer as to whether a particular design of bow is more accurate or not. But I personally believe that it is slightly harder to shoot a compass bow more ac...

Unfortunately not.

It is made from Lancewood from somewhere around the Roma region. It is a very good wood for a D section bow, at least the log we got is.
I can just pretend it is yew until I eventually get my hot little hands on some.

Hi Chris, a couple of pics of some of my longbow collection. The first is a 40lb selfbow that I could'nt quite decide whether to make into a compass bow or not, and the second is a 60lb tri laminate compass bow. You can see the difference when they are laid side by side. It did feel a bit strange at...

Ahhh, I understand now.
I shoot an ELB selfbow. I was wondering what class I would end up in

I voted for 3, with the numbers of people who shoot traditional/primitve styles of bows making 2 classes for them would end up with only a couple of people at the most in each style. (probably why I'm shooting selfbow )

@ Jape,
since when was an english long bow classed as 'modern'?

Anna and I have had this problem losing arrows in the undergrowth. Our respective colours are now canary yellow and royal blue fletching and cresting for my arrows, and orange fletches with orange and blue barred cresting for Anna's arrows. We have using these colours for a couple of years and the o...

I wondered what had happened to that poor teddy bear from the Caboolture flu flu shoot......

My favourite authors vary according to the subject matter, so for Sci Fi it would be Peter F Hamilton and Iain M banks. They're books are always ones that I can't put down. Myall time fave 'author' would have to be Herodotus tho, his histories always transport me to a Greek Agora where I'm sat in a ...

*picks up bow, starts stalking so0ftly thru the house*

Well that was a shock seeing that picture when I got on the site. I'm just glad it was that one and not the photo Grahame took of me looking like I'd just been goosed :wink: .(very good photo's btw Grahame). I did'nt hit the flu flu unfortunately, but it was one of many targets that I missed this we...

Thanks for the help guys, I have found a few places to get hold of some horn now that I know I can get it into the country.

The horn is bow for bow tips. I know I can get them from UK and US sites, but as I could'nt find anything in Australia I was wondering if they were banned for some reason here. I looked on the customs site to see if there was any bar to importing some, but there does'nt seem to be any. So it looks l...

I am trying to find some buffalo horn which I can use to finish off a d section selfbow. The only places I can find it online are in the USA. Is trade/selling buffalo horn banned in Australia?, if not does anyone know where I could get hold of some?

I have seen quite a few people using bicycle tyre inner tubes as a stretching device. I have tried it once myself, and it seemed like a good way of using the 'bow' muscles. However the temptation to put something in the loop of the tube and let fly grew too much!

For me it has always been the sound of blackbirds, song thrushes and wrens calling out, early on a sunny summers morning, when you can look out and know it's going to be a nice day

Stace that shot on the hawkeye was one of my 'occasional flashes of accuracy' shots :) , I just reverted to my usual style for the other ones, one over, one under, one in the tree etc.... I will definitely be having a practice for the next one at Gladstone. I've got to pay Anna's bar bill somehow :D

You guys got some great pics of the event, I might have some to put up when I get the film developed( still in camera dark ages :cry: ). Anna and I have only just got back from the shoot and we only live 45 mins away :D . Just had to stay a while longer and try and hit that running pig again. Had a ...

OK, thanks Jeff.
That sounds fair enough to me, though with my present hunting skills if a dingo got close enough to me for me to release an arrow, it must be blind and arthritic

we can probably guess that most uf us shoot more feral species than anything else.... Been a newcomer to these shores I thought that anything that was non native was fair game, and that any native species was off limits (permits for state/federal culls etc excepted). Could anyone clear this up for ...

Thanks for the help everyone, looks like broadheads and judo points it is. I did have my doubts about blunts as it seemed that a glancing hit would just do just as you say and either wound the animal or lose your arrow. The judo points are a new one to me, but I can see there usefullness after spend...

Hi all, Myself and Anna(also posting on this site), are moving to the Brissy area in a few days. We are both keen trad field archers and are looking forward to an opportunity to try our hands at hunting small game. We have looked at the previous posts on this site regarding broadheads and have quite...

Hi Trad, have you any plans to do a roving mark event at any of these shoots?. The other half and I are moving over to Oz in a few days and are looking at getting involved in trad and field archery(have bow will travel). When the weather is good over here we have been going to a different event or s...

There was a report in one of the papers over here of a guy from near my home town who farmed red deer, been gored and killed by one when it was in rut. There were also comments from other deer farmers in the area of similar near misses. Looking at the at the antlers on the bucks and stags I would im...

I have no reference's for this, but it is what I have been told by various people/come across in my travels. There were apparently 'sniper longbowmen' who been damn good shots used a recurved longbow to give them extra speed and accuracy, and they would presumeably be asked to try and take out the e...

not so much keen as desperate to go for a shoot round . I start getting twitchy if I have'nt picked a bow up in a few days

Leave my long johns behind?!?!
But someone told me that it drops below 15c over there