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Offline zinger

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Lakota bows - very interesting collection
« on: August 31, 2012, 10:03:40 am »
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Offline coaster500

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« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2012, 10:39:05 am »
Good read...  Interesting :)
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« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2012, 11:01:54 am »
Very cool article!
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Re: Lakota bows - very interesting collection
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2012, 11:13:58 am »
"A hunting tool and a weapon of war, the bow could sustain life and also take it away."

I find this a very simple, yet at the same time very powerful statement. I don't think a 1000 years of obscenely unnecessary and backwards technology, hunting rifle's with heat seaking bullets that hunt and shoot themselves so you don't even have to leave your living room, flying cars, and living like the jetsons, could weed out archery from the human psyche. (psyche or soul, one of the two... ) 
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Offline Parnell

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Re: Lakota bows - very interesting collection
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2012, 02:54:46 pm »
Enjoyed that.  Good post.
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Offline Shaun

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« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2012, 04:21:25 pm »
The author calls these bows "reflex/deflex" but they appear to me to be what we call "gullwing" or deflex/reflex.
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Offline Traxx

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« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2012, 04:36:37 pm »
Shaun,

Actually,they are Reflex/Deflex.They Reflex at the riser and deflex in the limbs.R/D is commonly called a Gullwing.A Delex/Reflex,Deflexes at the riser and reflexes in the limbs.This confusion seems to be a common to a lot of people these days.
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Offline k-hat

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« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2012, 06:43:17 pm »
Very cool, think i might make some of those :D

I wonder if those dots were maybe a guide for tillering/tapering?  They would highlight the curve nicely when strung and pulled.
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Offline ErictheViking

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« Reply #8 on: August 31, 2012, 07:49:52 pm »
Cool stuff, thanks for the post
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Offline raghorns

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« Reply #9 on: August 31, 2012, 08:14:10 pm »
This is amazing...I will definitely make it a point to one day visit the museum... thanks for sharing.

Lyle
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Offline Weylin

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Re: Lakota bows - very interesting collection
« Reply #10 on: September 01, 2012, 01:50:32 pm »
That bow lance was crazy looking!  :o It's hard to imagine that your bow would shoot smoothly or quickly with  huge spear tip sticking off the bottom tip.
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« Reply #11 on: September 01, 2012, 07:51:38 pm »
Weylin, the bow lances weren't shooting bows. They were emblems of rank for certain miliatry societies and were used as a lance. Many of them have the string tied down.  CC
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Offline zinger

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« Reply #12 on: September 03, 2012, 05:21:50 pm »
@Shawn & Trax - Had the very same question in mind as I am beginning to make gullwing type bows that are curved in toward the belly at the riser with no recurve at the tips. So what I am making is reflex/deflex?

Glad all of you enjoyed the article.

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Offline Traxx

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« Reply #13 on: September 03, 2012, 06:26:23 pm »
If i am understanding your description ,it sounds like you are making a deflexed riser.Are your limbs straight off the riser?If so,it is a reflexed risered straight bow,or a foreward handled bow,as many call them.
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Offline Traxx

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« Reply #14 on: September 03, 2012, 06:27:54 pm »
I meant to say,Deflexed risered straight limbed bow
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