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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Klub708 on June 30, 2016, 09:19:56 pm

Title: Bow Styles
Post by: Klub708 on June 30, 2016, 09:19:56 pm

This is a very broad question but can anyone suggest some unique bowstyles. I prefer bows that are a little more outgoing ( Plains short bow, hmong crossbow). Any suggestions/ideas are welcome.

Title: Re: Bow Styles
Post by: osage outlaw on June 30, 2016, 09:32:10 pm

Go back and look through the Bow of the Month contests.  There will be a lot of different bow styles represented there.

Title: Re: Bow Styles
Post by: JonW on June 30, 2016, 09:50:24 pm

There are some good museum databases that have hundreds of different designs. American Museum of Natural History and the Musee McCord are two of my favorites.

Title: Re: Bow Styles
Post by: mikekeswick on July 01, 2016, 02:33:38 am

Master the holmguaard bow and you are making one of the best straight bow designs out there. If you want to go 'modern' then r/d recurves are fun.

Title: Re: Bow Styles
Post by: loon on July 01, 2016, 03:07:24 am

have you seen the flight bow subforum?

...how about Korean? What I find really strange is that some of their deeply reflexed bows had wood bellies..

Quote from: mikekeswick on July 01, 2016, 02:33:38 am

Master the holmguaard bow and you are making one of the best straight bow designs out there. If you want to go 'modern' then r/d recurves are fun.

not mollegabet?
what's the difference between holmegaard and just a flatbow? or are holmegaard sort of like mollegabet but without levers as pronounced?

http://paleoplanet69529.yuku.com/reply/204658/Holmgards-Are-They-All-the-Same#reply-204658

Title: Re: Bow Styles
Post by: bushboy on July 01, 2016, 03:11:21 am

Mollegebet,Horsen Fjord, holmguaard. Very cool designs!

Title: Re: Bow Styles
Post by: loon on July 01, 2016, 03:16:22 am

Saami bows! Seem like good heavy arrow throwers

(https://i.imgur.com/zOHxPJz.jpg)

(by http://kviljo.org)

inuit cable backed?

(http://www.geocities.ws/netnoaide/bow.jpg)