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Blind Dog:
  I have seen of late several bows shorter than 60". Many as short as 36". All with draw lengths of 22" to 24". How do you shoot those shorties? I am 6'4" and am a founding member of the "Grass Stained Knuckle Society". I can stand with my feet slightly apart and flat palm an 8 foot ceiling.
  I have been considering bows made of local Utah juniper backed with sinew but what style would accommodate my long draw of 30"?

Urufu_Shinjiro:
Um, learn to shoot a horn bow with thumb ring? My turkish bow is 48" and I draw it to 33".

PEARL DRUMS:
If you are referring to short drawing to match a short bow. Practice, practice, practice. You have to find consistency somewhere in your draw, anchor and release. Similar to a full draw with say your middle finger in the corner of your mouth and a locked elbow, as an example.

If you just short draw and fling arrows you will have days you cant miss and many more days you cant hit anything.

loon:
My sacrilegious synthetic Korean bow's 50" and I draw to 31 or 32"... maybe one day I'll get the real horn and sinew thing. Those are rather fragile, though.. should make a very old style Korean war bow :p
Hard to make such a bow primitive without sinew backing, and anything but horn or bamboo for the belly, I think. Short static recurves.
I was thinking of making a 36" bamboo bow to draw 18" or maybe 20"... to shoot such bows, I think I'd actually use the string as a visual anchor to aim. There was an article on the front page about this. "Wicked Little Indian bows". Don't know where it went... Here!

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sleek:


I draw them like this...

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