D bows and weight?

[Kegan]

It seems to me that D bows can be made to pull heavier from the same quality wood (my main train of thought here is boards and marginal staves) than deep handled bows. I understand that they are usually braced, overal, closer to the neutral plain, as well as distributing the stress. The also require less mass. All this, as well as the English's love of the D bow and the use of many Natives for hunting lead me to believe that D bows are typically favorable when shooting for just higher weight?

Thoughts?

[nickf]

take a nice sapling, tiller it, and you've got a D-bow.

that's the first reason, it's just too easy! You need less material, the bendng handle allows to make them shorter. Simple, accurate, stable, more compact, it's just all you need, and apparently, that was holy for the primitive people.

the handle section of rigd handled bows just causes alot of stress, with the advantage of a little more comfort, depending on it's shape, and more centershot, making it easier to match your arrows (archers paradox).

well, that's my point of vieuw!

Nick