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bownarra:
Are there any more details on Ivars shot?
avcase:
--- Quote from: bownarra on September 09, 2019, 01:39:16 am ---Are there any more details on Ivars shot?
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The bow Ivar used to break Don Brown’s Record with was built like a Turkish flight horn bow except it had a short horn or wood overdraw fixed to it with an arrow rest made from feathers. He used a simple non-mechanical hook type release. The wood flight arrows were beautiful reproductions of Turkish flight arrows with hand-made paper for the vanes. I am not sure of the weight, but the arrows were about 24-1/2” long and seemed scary thin. He blew up a string on almost every shot, but it didn’t seem to have any affect on the bow at all. I believe his best distances were with expendable under-built linen strings. We laid out another linen string using the formula of breaking strength=4-times the draw weight of the bow. This one survived being shot, but I don’t think it delivered the best distance. He had silk strings too, but they didn’t do as well.
Ivar shot this record distance on our third round of the competition and conditions were very good. Temperature was in the upper-80’s with a gentle 5-6 mph tail wind.
Alan
Tuomo:
--- Quote from: avcase on September 12, 2019, 07:21:00 pm ---He used a simple non-mechanical hook type release.
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So no thumb ring?! What kind of hook type release it was? Any photos?
Where I could see the results and photos of the competition?
avcase:
--- Quote from: Tuomo on September 13, 2019, 12:10:54 am ---
--- Quote from: avcase on September 12, 2019, 07:21:00 pm ---He used a simple non-mechanical hook type release.
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So no thumb ring?! What kind of hook type release it was? Any photos?
Where I could see the results and photos of the competition?
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Only our Primitive Turkish division requires use of a thumb ring and sipur overdraw. The other primitive categories only regulate the type and way natural materials are used. It doesn’t get into bow design or conformance to a traditional style. There was pretty good representation at our event among those who frequent this board. I’ll put a link here to a pdf that lists all the results and records here if it is okay to do so. Also, anyone here can send me a message with their email and I can send an invite to a google photo album with many pictures and videos.
Alan
DC:
Thanks for the link Alan. It will take me a while to go through them. Couple of questions. On Harry Drakes bow, what is all the sheet metal? And the foot bow shots, I'm assuming that's you, is that a paper testing device out front?
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