Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: DC on February 18, 2015, 02:04:04 pm
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When you're talking about bows and use R/D or D/R do you start with the handle? Would a D/R have a deflexed handle and reflexed tips?
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R/D would be deflex at the handle, reflexed tips.
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RD and DR are the same to me. Cant see any reason a fella would reflex his handle and deflex his tips.
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Both the same thing.
The true examples of bows with reflexed grips and deflexed tips or limbs are generally classified by culture and given more descriptive names..
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Well, rats...that's what I get for answering first. I hadn't ever seen anyone use the term D/R, but it made me think of a gullwing-type bow.
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You'll probably find just as many if not more using D/R to define a typical modern bow. Seems to make sense to start naming features from the center out.
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I have always thought that D/R would be better than r/d but everyone seems to recognise r/d for some reason.
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Yeah, the name just stuck. Even harder for me to understand is how people describe the curve. Someone will say "I gave it 2" of deflex and 3" of reflex." So to one guy that means the tips are an inch ahead of the handle, and the other guy means 3" ahead of the handle.
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Im a 1" guy myself.
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Im a 1" guy myself.
Not sure if bragging...
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Don't act like your some kind of a 3" man Pat, I know better.
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I like D/R. To me a bow starts at the handle and goes out from there. But its not a hill to die on.
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I used to call them D/R but everyone else called them R/D so I quit
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D/R and R/D are not the same.In fact they are the exact opposite.The term,R/d for the popular style today,is misused and often by those,who should know better.
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They are the same in the sense that arguing about which part gets preference in the naming process is fruitless at this point.
When people use either term they are almost certainly talking about the same thing.
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When i use the term R/D,im talking about the double curve bow,Reflexed at the riser and deflexed mid limb.The type used from Canada to mexico,by Native people.Musta been somethin to em for so many to use em. ;)
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That's what I mean about using another specialised term for those styles that probably predates modern abbreviations. "Double curve" or "gullwing" seems to work better for that and most people instantly know exactly what you mean by that with no confusing it with a modern hybrid longbow.
I wonder what the Natives called them... probably "bows" lol
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I've always wondered if the "gullwing" bows people talk about aren't just a bow with a reflexed handle that has taken a lot of set from being left strung ???
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dylanholderman,
Thats been a subject that has been debated many times as well. :laugh:
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I use deflex/reflex. When folks call the same bow reflex/deflex I feel they're incorrect, but know what they're talking about so don't bother correcting them.