Primitive Archer

Pretty good so far, I was surprised to hear the gal that killed the warthog say she couldn't shoot at the waterbuck because she only had a 50# bow and it was too low poundage, she said it took 60# to kill the buck, nonsense. She seemed a little disjointed but she did get the hog. The other gal seems to have it more together. Only one of the guys shown so far seems to have the right skills, I can never remember names.

It worked great, a lot like yew or ERC to me.  Of course I didn't chase a ring, just remover the outer bark and used the sap wood as the back. 
 Pappy

Headed to the Cabin for a couple of days, plan on a little hiking this morning, up to 50lbs and 3 miles, might make my gold by 1st of September of 4 miles and 60lbs, we will see. Shawn and I are Making brats today , I still have plenty from the winter making but he is running short so we plan on making him 100 or so, also hope to get some time to work on my Osage bow and of course do a little shooting. Hope yall have a good on also. Life is Good. 
 Pappy

I agree with the others. Very nice bend.

Bjrogg

That's an interesting thought experiment. I hypothesise it will be slower than a normal longbow design, because a normal longbow does most of the work in the centre and middle, and that means the tips which move the most, can be quite thin and light. On the other hand, with this design the short limbs will have to be wider/heavier because they are doing all the work. And if we compare it to a shortbow, the shortbow will stack more, but because the limbs are moving more for a given draw length, they can also be a lighter, which will probably make it faster. By the way Del, I've been checking out your blog. Since you've got a good setup for doing tests, maybe you could do the experiment for me? E.g., test a warbow shooting at a 32" (or whatever the max draw is), with a 6pp arrow and a 10gpp arrow, and then repeat the test two inches shorter. This should see demonstrate the benefits of a longer draw length and if a heavier arrow is necessary to benefit from it.

Also, I've got another query: I've been reading The Great Warbow by Matthew Strickland, and included is data from a trial shoot, of a 150lb english warbow shooting a variety of arrows. The data lists a 53.6g arrow being shot 360 yards. Give that, I understand, currently Joe Gibbs holds the record shooting a standard arrow 311 yards, this is another outlier that I can't seem to make sense of. I was wondering if you have read the Great Warbow and could offer an explanation? And given that you've done lots of shoots, I was wondering if you could give me an idea of the average sort of range a skilled warbow archer can achieve with a flight arrow?