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Offline Jakesnyder

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Cold weather shooting?
« on: February 21, 2020, 08:41:15 am »
How do horn bows tolerate cold weather? I understand warming up the limbs but if your in pretty cold weather will that affect them?

bownarra

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Re: Cold weather shooting?
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2020, 12:08:42 pm »
The draw weight will go up a little but other than that no problem.

Offline gorazd

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Re: Cold weather shooting?
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2020, 06:52:36 pm »

Mongols atacked Europe and Russia in the winter months so obviously their horn bows did just fine  :BB


The draw weight will go up a little but other than that no problem.

Offline WhistlingBadger

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Re: Cold weather shooting?
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2020, 07:37:03 pm »
Hey, Jake, I asked this question about self-bows a while back.  The consensus is that it can raise your draw weight a bit, but poses no risk to the bow.

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,67007.msg941020.html#msg941020

The Tukudeka/sheepeaters around here hunted all winter at high altitude with horn bows, and they seemed to do pretty well.
Thomas
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