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Heavy Turkish style bows

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Badger:
  I have Adams book, I need to read it, I tend to browse through it fairly often just reading bits and pieces. I agree with the parchment, it might make a huge difference.

dragonman:
Hey Badger ..make yourself one!!!....I made one ...it only took a year and half and it broke when I strung it

mikekeswick:

--- Quote from: dragonman on January 27, 2014, 05:31:35 pm ---Hey Badger ..make yourself one!!!....I made one ...it only took a year and half and it broke when I strung it

--- End quote ---

There is more going on in these bows than meets the eye! I've found that it is vital to follow every bit of info in that book without trying to be smart and thinking' oh but I could do it like this....' that was my problem from the start I thought well I know about wooden bows surely a hornbow is just a wooden bow with some horn glued on......right?....Wrong!
I'm onto my 5th/6th and 7th hornbows....I finally am confident that nothing will fail with them now. Looking back my first few were destined to failure! Well did you learn why it broke? That's the important thing!

Coonst:
Hi everyone :)

I am trying to be able to use heavy turkish (well ... oriental...) style bows, and struggle with three problems, which are maybe a challenge for others, too. The most obvious and already mentioned one is to get such a bow. More challenging is the shooting-technique required for these bows, because it is way more complex then what I have learned as "traditional (western)" archery. This is a matter of practice, just as the drawweight, where I can handle ~80 pounds at the moment. My personal problem is quite boring, because I am tall. As far as I understand these bows, they were made for a <28" drawlenght for a reason, like shorter arrows are lighter and short limbs move faster ... and so on. When I follow the manuscripts on shooting these bows as slavishly as I can, my stable drawlength is arround 33-34 inces... which makes it hard to put my results in a relation to the real ones with their intended drawlenght.
I know these are "lame excuses" for not having any interesting results for that topic right now, but I try and may succeed in the (hopefully near  ::) ) future.

mikekeswick:
Hi Coonst and welcome.
For your drawlength a Turkish style hornbow should be around 52 -53 inches ntn.
Are you using a thumbring?

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