HILL = style bows

[radius]

Hey, who can explain to me exactly what a Hill style bow is?  Is it just a bow that never misses?   Or is there more to it than that?

[Ryano]

A Hill style bow is basicaly a long (66" or longer) flat bow with limbs slightly wider than they are deep, straight with no reflex or deflex and a short narrow straight grip.

[radius]

thanks

[adb]

Howard Hill certainly didn't miss often!! "Hill" style bows are narrow limbed flat bows, with slight reflex or 0 set when unbraced. They have a shorter built up handle. Usually FG lams. Heavy weight. More than likely 66 - 72". Google the website for pics. No nonsense hunting bows. Byron Ferguson shoots a Hill style bow, made by Martin.

[Kegan]

There are modern Hill bows, which are flatbows made with fiberglass, or the bows Hill shot.

These were American longbows- twice your draw plus 16". The limbs were rather narrow and either flat (like his Boo bows) or slightly rounded (as he did selfbows). The handle was deep, short, and only slightly narrowed, if at all. They followed the string and he made them to pull as heavy as he could get them. They are braced with one inch for every foot in length, and are an offshoot of the old English longbow, just with a handle, no horn nocks, and slightly shorter. He made them to bend their full legnth, slightly sitff at the very center (grip).