Flatbow or Longbow

What's the best bow - a flat bow or a longbow?

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• ancient technology
• bushcraft
• The bushcraft magazine
• foraging
• longbow
• flat bow
• bow maker
• bardster

[TheBushcraftMagazine]

no, english yew is Ok, as long as you find the right bit, most english yew grows as single trees - and has the oppurtunity to twist and bend as it wishes. Also tends to grow faster in our wetter climate. The best Yew grows straight and true and slow growing. Hence during the Hundred years war most of the yew for bows was imported.

[floopsie666]

@ifrit1596 Its bow - making it isn't quantum mechanics. Give him a break even if he isn't accurate. Coming to youtube trying to act smart over bow - making...I feel pathetic FOR you.

[celticbattleaxe]

Ash?Hmmmm... I'd use Wych Elm if I lived in the British Isles (I WISH:) ), but in the US I'd use shagbark hickory.

Great info, though!! :)

[micers]

The only reason that Yew is preferred for making D section bows is because the military wanted to get eight staves out of a six inch diameter trunk of wood. That is it. The D section is otherwise no better or worse in the way of performance.

[symbolsandsystems]

I've looked and looked and can not find any hunting videos using an English Long Bow.

[joec123able]

Wow beautiful flat bow

[thomasnbishop]

@micers That is true the english longbow was desighned so you could get alot of pwerfull bowstaves per trunk

[TheDavidoc2]

english warbow all the way,,,,,,,,,,,,

[CecilyHeron]

2:54 completely unprovoked namecalling ;)

[micers]

Horse crap, flat bows and D Section bows are the same and perform the same... The deal is that it is about the wood, either design will shoot the same weight the same distance. You are wrong about Osage. The reason that Osage is called a good wood is because it can do well in a D Section, and sadly most Americans still buy into the bull sheite that the English D section is a superior design, when facttually the American Indian design is maybe five thousands years old. You are pretentious.

[TheFanta913]

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[loadedClownZ]

@hackamore no they made them from the tree trunk, the reason they are d-shaped is cause it allowed more bows to be made from a single trunk as d-shapes are not very wide. if they made them from a sapling that wouldn't make a powerful bow as the strongest wood is found in the trunk.