horn bow shooting using thumb ring. traditional archery

[steelgrrrlmai]

Your bows are beautiful. Looks like they don't stack much on the draw, either. Do they have very much hand shock on release?

When and if you consider selling your bows, I will be eagerly in line to order two of them. I love traditional archery, even though I started as an olympic style archer.

[nomad1545]

Thumb release with a 70# bow, not bad.

[Blutroth]

do you recommend an beginner to use an thumbring or a finger protector?

[blackfeatherarchery]

Nice looking bow, But i'm a compoundbow shooter,

[TYKKETYKKE]

Convert to the only true religion: traditional archery.

[KuKulzA28]

That style is traditional for Koreans

[TYKKETYKKE]

I was talking to the compound shooter :)

[KuKulzA28]

Gotcha

[daryush55]

That bow is lovely!

Where did you get the bamboo arrows from? And do you have any info on how they compare to conventional wooden ones?

[skcazador]

I hunt with a man in Canada who also built his own horn (antler) bow and harvested an elk with it. It took most of a year to build but only lasted for a hundred shots, then broke. He has built several since, all for display now.

[raskafari7273]

wats sso cool about taking the string off/??????

[yimph4x]

To avoid warpage and to maintain the poundage. If you keep your bow contantly strung the bow will loose less power because the limbs will be use to being flexed where as if you unstring them they will flex more and thus you get more power. It isn't about beig "cool" it is about being smart and knowing how to handle your bow.

[tiecuando]

Hmm, that makes sense. Good info.

[yimph4x]

Your welcome.

[tiecuando]

I mean, thank you. :)

[yimph4x]

It's ok, I know what you meant. Glad I could be of some help to someone. ;) if you got any other questions I can try to answere them

[clibanarii123]

80 pounds? Thinking that most Korean archers draw bows of #40~#50, that's truly astonishing!

How much does your arrow weigh when you shoot #80 hornbow? Such an arrow would be indeed heavy.

[UFarcher]

There are longbowmen in england if you search it on youtube pulling 180#-120#

[CordelasBB]

wow! congratz! nice :)

Greetings from Poland :)

[CordelasBB]

how much does such a bow cost?

[yokhua]

I didn't buy it...I made this bow...I have no idea how to price this kind of bows... It was made from two pieces of water buffalo horns, lots of moose sinew, maple wood and put together by my home made fish bladder glue.... It tooks roughly 18~24 months to finsh...

[koxiesarmy]

@yokhua You string it just like a recurve? I have a niece and nephew who are Korean and have started looking into traditional Korean archery. How do I get the materials to make a bow. Any help would be appreciated. I stopped using a compound 6 years ago in favor of a recurve and now want to ditch that for the horn bow. Thanks in advance./

[Seif5034]

most traditional bows i've seen online cost $200 minimum

[liuntika]

I do think you wanted to tell 800 usds instead....