''The first guy I ran into ( a known butt head) told me that it was immpossible for me to shoot off hand with out a glove, because the English used gloves on their long bows

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just tell them the bow you have is not an english longbow it's a na bow and indians didn't have gloves

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i got lucky when visiting a shop in ardmore, the guy working shot a glass recurve and knew alot about woodbows and even said a few regulars were bowyers(can't remember their names) they sold wheelbows but preferred traditional

one thing he said about wheelies was'' shoot fast,miss fast'' i thought that was pretty funny but also true.
i went to academy the other day and picked up a few arrows , they had all theres separated and marked according to weight range that might be something you can check out.