stevecook172001 wrote:I have a long bow and can confirm there is quite a learning curve to shooting them accurately. It's a lovely bow mind. Carbon-fibre and left-handed with sights. Also, very long cos I'm a tall, orangutan-armed bugger...
Are you sure that it's a long-bow and not a recurve, say. I thought, by definition, that longbows were made of wood and were bare (i.e. no sights or anything else),
Peter.
Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the seconds to hours?
stevecook172001 wrote:I have a long bow and can confirm there is quite a learning curve to shooting them accurately. It's a lovely bow mind. Carbon-fibre and left-handed with sights. Also, very long cos I'm a tall, orangutan-armed bugger...
Are you sure that it's a long-bow and not a recurve, say. I thought, by definition, that longbows were made of wood and were bare (i.e. no sights or anything else),
stevecook172001 wrote:I have a long bow and can confirm there is quite a learning curve to shooting them accurately. It's a lovely bow mind. Carbon-fibre and left-handed with sights. Also, very long cos I'm a tall, orangutan-armed bugger...
Are you sure that it's a long-bow and not a recurve, say. I thought, by definition, that longbows were made of wood and were bare (i.e. no sights or anything else),
Peter.
Yes, you're right. I meant recurve.
That makes sense, and, yes, they are hard to shoot well,
Peter.
Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the seconds to hours?
Are you Brits .allowed compound hunting bows? Much easier to shoot then a long or recurve bow with much higher arrow speed. Modern ones are adjustable for draw weight and often have 75% let-off meaning that if it was set for 100 lbs draw weight once it came to full draw it only takes 25 lbs to hold it while you sight your target and wait for it to step into the perfect spot. If you have ever shot a traditional bow of any strength you will know that drawing it back is one thing but holding it steady for any length of time quite another. http://www.cabelas.com/product/Hunting/ ... t103967280
Compound bows are very impressive performers, I have a Matthews Switchback, but for fun in the sunshine a longbow or a light recurve bow is ace. My Dad gave me a wooden longbow when I was a teenager, it was as tall as me. It has a wrapped leather handle and a small nylon arrow rest - that's it. A piece of self adhesive draft excluder with a large headed tailors pin is the sight.
Lighter, simple bows are much less fussy about arrows than a fast compound bow, you can literally make arrows from wooden dowel, whereas my compound bow would snap them in half and probably impale me with the pieces.
As a long term hunting tool the compound bow is limited by how many carbon fibre arrows you can afford, because you will lose and break them.
There are rumours that one is allowed to shoot, with a bow-and-arrow, at Scottish people from our city walls between dusk and dawn. Just in case they're raidin', like.
JavaScriptDonkey wrote:Although hunting with bows is illegal (why I have no idea), owning a hunting bow is not illegal.
Hunting with a bow would take considerably more skill than hunting with a rifle, with the increased risk of wounding the animal.
You are correct on the skill part but having done both types of hunting I have to disagree with the last. A duffer can wound much more game with a rifle then he can with a bow. just a matter of how many animals can get in range of. A bow kill is slower and you have to track it to where it falls and that can be a problem if property lines are crossed but I would not call an arrow wound less humane then a bullet wound. After all there are no retirement homes in Florida for deer, they all either fall to hunters, other predators, disease or starve to death when they run out of teeth. You could do a lot worse then a swift cut from a sharp arrow passing through and a loss of consciousness from blood loss. Many of us will suffer much more at the hands of our respective health-care systems.
RenewableCandy wrote:There are rumours that one is allowed to shoot, with a bow-and-arrow, at Scottish people from our city walls between dusk and dawn. Just in case they're raidin', like.
Well big burly men wearin skirts need to have somthin done with em.
RenewableCandy wrote:There are rumours that one is allowed to shoot, with a bow-and-arrow, at Scottish people from our city walls between dusk and dawn. Just in case they're raidin', like.
Well big burly men wearin skirts need to have somthin done with em.
Now, now. Let's not be upsetting my new neighbours on Burns Night!
RenewableCandy wrote:There are rumours that one is allowed to shoot, with a bow-and-arrow, at Scottish people from our city walls between dusk and dawn. Just in case they're raidin', like.
Well big burly men wearin skirts need to have somthin done with em.
Now, now. Let's not be upsetting my new neighbours on Burns Night!
