"pick that bow" (see attached photo)

[Coron]

G'day everyone.
I was at a shoot a week or so ago and had trouble putting my bow into a category (recurve, horse bow, longbow)
it was purchased as a "Scythian bow" which tells me its a horse bow but it has no syahs and technically isn't a recurve as no part of the string contacts the limb, but im not happy to call it a longbow.
technically i would call it a heavily deflex-reflex long bow but it doesn't seem right to call it a longbow
a pic says a thousand words

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any thoughts? its got me stumped
on another note, its one of the nicest bows I have had the pleasure of shooting, fast and accurate and oh so smooth on the release

thanks guys
Harry

[Stickbow Hunter]

Harry,

Your bow is not deflex/reflex in design at all; it is reflex/deflex in design as the limbs first reflex back away from the handle of the bow and then deflex. It is actually a type of recurve, a semi-recurve. There are in fact a number of differnt types of recurves; semi, static tip, part working and full working etc.

Jeff

[Night Wing]

Here in the US, some people call your bow a "flatbow".

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[greybeard]

G'day everyone.
I was at a shoot a week or so ago and had trouble putting my bow into a category (recurve, horse bow, longbow)
it was purchased as a "Scythian bow" which tells me its a horse bow but it has no syahs and technically isn't a recurve as no part of the string contacts the limb, but im not happy to call it a longbow.
technically i would call it a heavily deflex-reflex long bow but it doesn't seem right to call it a longbow
a pic says a thousand words

The attachment !CDfMkD!Bmk~$(KGrHqUOKowE0fe4jMQtBNO)lku5cg~~_12.JPG is no longer available

any thoughts? its got me stumped
on another note, its one of the nicest bows I have had the pleasure of shooting, fast and accurate and oh so smooth on the release

thanks guys
Harry

Hi Harry,

To my line of thought the term "horse bow" is the most misused/abused terminology to describe a bow.

Not all Asiatic bows had static tips 'siyahs'.

The bow illustrated in the following is being shot by a hunter on horseback. Does that make it a horse bow?

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English longbows were shot by mounted archers.

Perhaps the various archery governing bodies should have an open division for bows that do not conform to their rules.

Daryl.