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Another J. D. Duff Yew War Bow (Finally)
duffontap:
Well, Here it is. My latest war bow. Like my Mary Rose Replica, it draws 110# @ 32". I wanted to try something a little different with this one so I made it only 1 3/8" wide, deeper and slightly more rectangular in section. I really like the slenderness and width-depth ratio. I took it to the beach for the first time tonight a fired off 4 arrows. My best shot of the four was 215 yards with a 1,050 grain arrow. That's really good for me. I'll have to get some more experience with it before I draw my conclusions but I really liked it. Very smooth draw and gentle release.
Bowyer's Mark:
Unbraced: I can't believe how long these bows are. I'm 6' 2", the bow is 6' 5" nock to nock with a few more inches of tips on top of that.
Full draw:
Top tip:
Bottom tip:
On the tiller:
Good times at the beach:
J. D. Duff
Miles:
Cool I like the Top tip great looking war bow hey are you drawing with two finger it looks like it in pic.
Miles
Glennan:
Very nice JD.
From what little evidence I can find on medieval nocks, they appear to be much smaller than Victorian nocks, almost vestigial. Personally, I like the 'teardrop' shape favoured by Pip Bickerstaffe and Steve Stratton. But that's just me, and in no way detracts from your work.
You might find it easier to use your legs more when shooting for distance. Bend your legs rather than bend at the waist. This will help keep your core (trunk) stable.
sagitarius boemoru:
JD Better tiler than the prevoius one, very elegantly looking too.Must be smooth with that lenght and shape. Anyway - have you considered that you can seemingly pull 2´´ more when shooting for distance?
You have enough potential to do that!
33´´ would put you far ahead in performance all else being equal.
Glenan - I thought Steve makes proper Tudor shape horn nocks?
There is anyway a woodcut with Henry VIII. army on the continent and there is lots of longbowmen with huge bows standing around and the nocks are very "Muir" shaped. Means alot like some victorian nocks. Ill dig around my HD and post the pic in separate thread.
Jaro
sagitarius boemoru:
Think of this JD ! (Eventually wear hat when trying to draw further, its only way how to not lose the ear.) :DDD
Jaro
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