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True Selfbow Class
hillbilly61:
I too have no horse in this race. That being said,I would consider a selfbow as one that had no shelf, leather tab or otherwise. Backed or unbacked, it wouldn't mater as long as it was shot off the knuckle. Just a thought.
Ranger B:
Pappy and I discussed this while I was home over Thanksgiving and since then I have spoken with Levy about the class. We plan to meet (I am the TN State rep. for IBO) and the board of directors has no issue with adding an additional class. I completely understand that there is a perception about backed bows so why not put the backed longbows - even self made - in the longbow division. Then we can have a true selfbow class. The thing is that we need shooters in the class. To my knowledge we only had one backed bow BBO in the selfbow class last year and he did not place. The top three shooters were shooting osage selfbows. I fully support a true selfbow class as we define it here but lets get some people out shooting in that class.
Jesse:
I hope to make it this year Pappy. Im sure whatever you come up with will be good. :) I would hate to see the bamboo backed bows get lumped together with the glass longbows though.
hillbilly61:
Where is this held? I would be intrested. The las time I shot an IBO was 6 years ago, before I quit shooting alltogether, and that was with wheels :-[
Lombard:
I'm thinking, that rawhide, silk, burlap, linen, and such do not really enhance performance, simply offering protection to marginal backs. My thoughts of a primitive self bow class should also be restricted to self arrows also.
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