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Native American arrows?
WhistlingBadger:
--- Quote from: loefflerchuck on December 27, 2017, 11:01:15 pm ---Maybe I can have some short bow shooters with short draw -24" back me up on this. A short bow with a short draw can handle any arrow as long as the spine is stiff enough. So a 23.5" arrow shaft with a 70# spine will still shoot well from a 50# bow.
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I wonder if that's part of the reason that so many hunting/horseback cultures favor short-ish bows, when they have the materials to make them. The English seem to have used their longbows for long-distance armor piercing, but just north of the border, the Scots (who used bows mostly for hunting and guerilla-style skirmishing) appear to have favored shorter, lighter-weight bows. Perhaps, for close-range shooting where such things matter, a shorter bow just gives good arrow flight easier.
On the other hand, some of the jungle tribes in South America, who no doubt have their pick of bow woods most of us would kill for, make enormously long bows. Same goes for jungle tribes in New Guinea and India. So I might be completely wrong.
bassman:
west coast natives made arrows that were works of art
willie:
--- Quote ---Now, if I spent as much time with my bow as I did with my wife...But I bet I'd have all sorts of instincts about the flight of the arrow.
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I would think this has a lot to do with their method, and a weaker arrow might require to be not drawn so much, and a stiffer arrow might be scraped down more...or otherwise modified to act weaker, in other words the arrows were "spined" by shooting them in,.... the modern concept of spine did not come about until modern manufacturing methods prevailed
I have read ethnological accounts that report much more effort was put into arrow making than bow making
Hawkdancer:
Bow can be good, arrow must be great! There are still a lot of arrow artifacts to be found, I hope! Here in the high dry climate, there should be some yet to be discovered! The next cave or burial may prove to be the AHA, moment!
Hawkdancer
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