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Horses for courses I would think, and a bit of common sense thrown in (though common sense seems to have disappeared in the modern world to some degree). Much would depend on what you are hunting, and how good at stalking you are. Often I think accuracy is more important than poundage. Not much poin...

Just off the top of my head, you could try Abbey Archery, Redback Archery, and Sioux Archery (3 Rivers shafts). Alas Tradbits are no more.

I use to get my shafts from Rose City Archery in the States, as they were a manufacturer.

That's a good idea - an open NC division.

Going by the TAA website, the proposed 2020 equipment guidelines have been ratified. Seems they dug their heels in, and went with their draft fully. Probably won't be long before hybrid get re-labeled as Modern Longbow, now that we have a Modern Recurve Division. Very traditional.

Just so you know, I couldn't get 1820 threaded inserts, so I purchased 1816 ones and used a disk sander to remove a bit (2 thou) of the 'ribs' of the insert to make it fit the shaft. It was easy enough.

Jim's advise is good. I've started using Easton Genesis XX75 1820's recently, from my 50lbs recurve. These are a heavy arrow at 12.2g/inch. Using these with a 135g broadhead (including adapter). Overall, a reasonably heavy arrow. However they don't have an extreme FOC, and fly beautifully and pretty...

I wonder if it might be advisable to change the division name from just "Longbow" to 'Traditional Longbow" as they have done for "Traditional Recurve". The Australian Traditional Longbow was the Howard Hill style longbow. This could help reduce the ambiguity of having just &...

You could try these from 3Rivers https://www.3riversarchery.com/woodywei ... ights.html

I have purchased from here without issue.

Good point, my bad. One would have to read the article in its entirety to get the full impact, but in many respects, it is a story of transition on a few different levels - but we will stick to the archery side of thing. To summarise, decades ago, man shoots recurve barebow. Likes friends compound w...

A really good and quite candid article in Archery Action Magazine this month from Nils Spruitt, which struck a cord, in so much as why so many of us choose traditional equipment over the modern compound.

What was the old saying about archery, 90% ability 10% equipment? That might have been true once, and I remember the adage, but the modern compound can make the most mediocre archer shoot reasonably well - something they would not have been able to achieve with a compound bows some 20-30 years ago....

I see that under the traditional recurve division 2019, that the timber riser bow had to be shot off the shelf. The proposed 2020 revision now allows a non-mechanical elevated rest, no plunger button. Whilst in reality, it probably makes little difference to accuracy, the bow being shot off the shel...

I love these old pictures. I had the same document (see attachment). Whilst not short, the limbs are quite wide and the handle section narrow. A board bow in many respects. Yes this is an American Flatbow, not a Howard Hill style semi-longbow (where the limb width to depth ratio is smaller for a sta...

Thanks for sharing the download Daryl, that was interesting. So the Century21 bow started all the problems. I don't mind Dennis's definition of what is an appropriate length of a longbow based on the archers height (at least shoulder height), as it is my understanding that many composite longbow bow...

I'm not sure where the elevated rest (toothbrush) on a longbow ever came from, for this draft. Cant say I have ever seen a longbow use one, though I have on a recurve. It would seem that this was done to appease some idiocratical idea of the draftees or a friend there of. I see that some english arc...

Seem the TAA has a new proposed Equipment Guidelines draft to be ratified for 2020. Unfortunately they appear to have got it wrong right from the first paragraph about Longbows: Longbow refers to the traditional straight end style longbow. In some circles these are also known as American Flatbow’s. ...

Check out the Spu Miller Spine Calculator - I have found it to be pretty accurate: https://www.3riversarchery.com/dynamic-spine-arrow-calculator-from-3rivers-archery.html A couple of things you also need to consider 1. What type of recurve are you shooting - in particular, where the arrow rests in r...

Nice one Matt.

I see in Victoria, that a mother, who was teaching her daughter how to drive (L plates) on the now quiet streets of Victoria, was fined $1300 for engaging in non essential activities. That is the saddest thing I have ever heard.

B.Hill wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2020 7:33 pm hi guys

got two big trips planned for this year: 4-5 day backpacking hunt for sambar then a 1,2 - 5,6? day hunt for camels.
they are the two big ones at the moment.

Bodie

Camels, interesting - how would you compare hunting for camels compared to say pigs or deer, gear and approach wise?

Yeah, apparently the Qld minister said no recreational boating a few days ago, but retracted the statement a few hours later. Such blinded ignorance, social golf is nothing like hunting or fishing out by yourself, and they would have to find you first. It tells you a lot about a governing body that ...

Well, Victoria is the most woke and marxist state in the country. Do the rules specifically say no fishing or hunting? You are still allowed to get food to feed your family - and you could counter it with that. I went fishing yesterday (Qld). There were more young and middle age men at the boat ramp...

I tried extreme FOC and very heavy weighted points once.

Arrows flew like a thrown brick.

Trying to counter the trajectory after 10 metres was not conducive to accuracy at all.

Where there is a will.....

I just did a google search and found out that this is a very new feature of Chrome.

It relates to using the same email address and password for other sites or apps. It may well be that the data breach occurred on another site.

Luckily I have about 6 other email addresses.

Interesting. Ozbow is saved on my favorites list in Chrome. The message came up as ozbow.net.au, yet I note that Ozbow is not an 'au'. I was still able to log in as usual and also change my password. After I saw the message, I also ran Avast anti-virus, and Malwarebytes and did a C Clean. Nothing pi...

When I logged into Ozbow, I got a screen message stating:

Change your password.
A data breach on a site or app exposed your password.
Chrome recommends changing your password on ozbow.net.au now.

Has anyone else got this screen message?

I will try and contact admin now.

Hi Guys So shot a few more arrows this afternoon and tried with the nock on top of the brass nocking point, BINGO worked a treat great flight or as good as I can probably get with my form, but good enough for me. thanks for the help Bodie Sounds good start with, but in my mind it raised a few quest...

Hi Grahame I am happy to shoot woods for this reason. IMO aluminium and fibreglass arrows are traditional but I just like shooting wood. The reason arrows made of those materials were not allowed at the Australian Longbow Musters was that making your own wood arrows was a dying art which we wanted ...

If a shooter turns up with a ILF recurve with a springy rest and burger button and 250 grain knitting needle arrows, they will shooting with the bare compounds. Any thoughts.???? Matt I think they will be put into the Recurve Un-Aided (RU): A recurve or longbow without a sighting device. A rest and...