Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: txdm on February 03, 2019, 12:08:48 pm
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From the shooter's view, this handle goes diagonally across the bow's width at the fades, instead of down the center.
(http://www.dmcknight.net/forumpics/bowyer/diagonal-handle.png)
I kind of like the way it looks vs. a straight handle with a near-center cutout.
Does this style have a name or certain type of bow it is associated with? Anyone have any experience with shooting one in this style?
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I don't think a name was ever given to it but quite a few have used it. It's quite a useful way of getting center shot with no shelf and even a cant effect without canting.
I've seen it quite a bit in flight bows where a shelf is not allowed in order to get closer to or past center.
Way back almost 20 years ago there was an enthusiastic kid on here who made a Red Oak board bow with this exact handle. At the time we were joking about calling it the Seattle Brian Z handle. Old time member on here may remember Brian and his Dad posting on here.
I guess offset would be another way to describe it.
Here's a link to a thread showing basically the same idea. You can't quite aee the whole handle but you get the idea.
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/paleoplanet69529/356m-389yards-t22365.html