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Heavy Turkish style bows
Marc St Louis:
How are your arms these days Pat? I remember you had an interest in making/shooting bows such as these years ago.
PatM:
Arms are still good but obtaining the materials needed for making a high weight bow discouraged me from spending more money on iffy horn.
I spent a small fortune on some that was unusable except for inserts/tips etc.
I would like to just make an extremely high weight static recurve and see what's up there.
mikekeswick:
Well Badger I am currently making a set of three Turkish hornbows. One warbow style at around 60#, a flight bow of around 60 -70# and just for the hell of it i'm making one with the same dimensions as one of the heavier flight bows in his table of measurements (of actual bows in the Palace collection). I was making the heavy one as a wall hanger but if someone can shoot it....I'll put it in the post ;) I can only manage around 100# now. Obviously this is one for the future because the cores have only just been bent to shape.
Also those tests were done on a shoting machine, Adam says that the release was far from clean so the figures are likely a little low.
There is a Bulgarian chap called George who posts bows on here. The last one he posted was a heavy longbow and he looked like he was pulling it with ease. I rememebr thinking when I saw his picture that Adam should send him a bow to test. ;)
Those Turkish flight records are still there. Really we should be able to at least get close to them nowadays....wouldn't you think >:D
Badger:
Mike, I don't put much stock in the Sultans records. It appears everything he did was a superfete of some kind. Kind of like the leader over in North Korea.
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There are many people who are pulling heavy war. I cope successfully with 140 English . I have not pulled far serious Turkish War, but about 110 hungarian is not a problem for me. Turkish style about 120 maybe, but no thumb of course.
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