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sleek:
Pearl, just to present an argument, im going to mention modern compounds and how short they are. Its very easy to be accurate with them, even without sites. They are very short, and the release makes the difference. Even withought thise stabalizers folks put on.
Of course, in the archery you cite, releases arent needed because of the bow size. And maybe they go long for that very reason, long bows arent finiky about their release.
Urufu_Shinjiro:
I'll also counter that best archers long bow theory with Korea. It's arguable that the Koreans are consistently some of the best archers on the planet and they use short bows, but that also backs up Sleeks theory since they shoot thumb ring release (as one should be doing with that 44" Turkish bow, lol).
PEARL DRUMS:
The Koreans dominate, with 62" plus recurve bows. You can Google all you want to know about the best archers in the world. Tons of info available to look through.
bradsmith2010:
this is from a book called Native American Bows,, a friend gave it to me,, it has wonderful insight about shooting and Native bows,,,in my earlier response, I stated,,, I have a little better accuracy with my long bow but feel that my short bows are in fact accruate as well,,I guess defining accurate would be the issue with that statement,,
loon:
something something Turkish archers, saw pictures of very tiny groups shot out of a short turkish bow, and generally mostly Western archers being the most famous ones and longer bows are the most used in Western archery. I wonder how accurate kukgung/gungdo archers can get... but I think people with longer bows would always have an edge on accuracy. Probably not in flight archery though :P
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