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Hunting and shooting with the English longbow

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NOMADIC PIRATE:
I did hunt with ELB's quite a lot, at the moment most of the time I take out a big 92# one.

The Elb is a very stable and forgiving shooter, and the fact that you can't hunt them in thick cover on the ground is quite an overblown perception.

a long Elb can be shot in very tight body positions, check my thread " HUNTING PRACTICE SHOOTING VIDEOS"


I think this young mountain boar would have whished I wasn't carrying such a stable weapon, ..the shot was made as the porcker was trotting at a good clip thru the trees  ;D

Kegan:
Ahh. Now I think I'm getting an idea of what you're looking for :).

It's unbacked, 70" long, with a heavily tempered belly, and pulling 70# at 27". I built it a few months ago, back when there was snow eveyrwhere, but have been shooting it alot. Hasn't shown any signs of giving out, and this is probably my most durable bow to date drawing around this weight. I put a FF string on it and it turned into an absolute beauty. Shoots striaght and quick, with some handshock, but quite accurately. It outshot my friends Bear Montanna with a similiar gpp arrow ratio.

Arrow tuning is a bit of a pain, and I prefer them stiff in the center to lessen handshock, but for the most part they're reliable hunting bows as I see it. And Manny's post sure shows that ;D.

Fitzcarraldo:
Nice picture, NP!

Kegan – that sounds like the sort of bow I might be able to try making without worrying about wrecking really expensive wood.  Funny that you mention it outshooting the Bear Montana – that's the longbow I'm currently using!

Kegan:
I like then. Very easy to build and tiller. Reliable. Even this one, which could be alot better in design/tiller.

I was sorely dissapointed that the FG bow didn't outshoot my own longbows. From what everyone seems to say, FG bows trump even the best selfbows. Guess not ;).

hawkbow:
I was fortunate to hunt with an old Yew english longbow as a young adult.. i took several deer and elk with the bow and really liked the accuracy... but the pull was seventy five pounds and the bow was so long that making the shot on elk was usually very hard in mountai terrain.. However i would say that if it bends and slings an arrow .. give her a go brother.. even the english had to eat back in the day ;) and they sure seemed able to bring down plenty of meat.. Hawk

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