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Cyrille:
Once again I decided to pick up my Kassai horse bow that I purchased a few years ago. I had shot it off and on in sporadic spurts but since it has no shelf I usually ignored it and usually went back to shooting the long bow.
 Well lo & behold! for some reason unbeknownst to me I found that this bow is one of the most accurate bows that I have had the pleasure to own and shoot @ twenty yards.
 I shoot 3 under using 2016 Easton Platinum aluminum arrows with 125 field points and up until now I always thought I'd have to aim off to either the right or left of the spot I wanted to hit because I actually didn't believe that I would ever find an arrow that I could aim dead on with. Of course with distance I realize that one has to aim either high for longer shots and lower for closer shots. Thanks for reading!

Urufu_Shinjiro:
Shelves are for books, not bows ;)

loon:
Interesting. Maybe if it's a longer static recurve, and since maybe it happened to be well tuned to your arrows, it was more accurate?

Cool that it works for you.

I find the Toth and Kassai bows rather expensive for just having solid glass limbs covered in leather. But I shot one and it shot pretty good...
I have one of Dave Mead's bows. Still primitive, wide handled, far from centershot, yet pretty fast and quiet. The handle seems wider than the usual in 'horsebows'.. I've had trouble doing what you've got with mine (can you intersect the arrow with the string blur and it goes dead on straight?), but I think if spine tuned and with a good release it should work.

I don't think I'll be as accurate with my Korean bows (short! and long draw..) shooting Korean style with the same ease as shooting a nice longbow or recurve in western style...

Cyrille:

--- Quote from: Urufu_Shinjiro on May 05, 2017, 04:53:47 pm ---Shelves are for books, not bows ;)

--- End quote ---
Using the horse bow and finding how accurate it is I have a tendency to agree. However I recently ordered a long bow (been a week seems much longer) with no shelf when it arrives I'll test it out for a while and see how accurate it turns out to be.http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/Smileys/default/undecided.gif

PNewton:
Cyrille, what model of the Kassai horse bows do you have? I've recently been doing some research on them and some feedback would be great. Thanks.

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