Any one out there have any info on horn bows or has any one made one? What kind of horn did you use ?

  Just so happens I work with horn. OK... here goes
   The Middle Eastern and Mongolian archers would frequently make laminatedbows. The main part would be any kind of springy wood. The inside curve ( the curve that faces the archer) would have thin plates of horn laminated onto it. This was all wrapped up in tightly stretched and wetted leather.
  As the leather dries,it shrinks, getting even tighter and holding everything in place. The horn was also held in with hide glue.
  Here's the trick, and I am revealing a horner's secret here. Horn grows in layers and has a grain, much like wood does.If you look at it you can see that it goes pretty much straight up and down.
     You cut those areas into thin strips, and place them on the bow, so that the grain is vertical, or straight up and down.
  What this does,is when the bow bends, the horn acts like a spring, and gives more power to the bow when the string is released.
   If you look at traditional Mongolain bows, they are short, because they are used on horseback, however, everyone feared the bows because of their strength.
   The main disadvantage of a horn bow is that it is very weather sensitive. The leather and horn will expand and shrink according to the moisture content of the air.
i have no idea how the Mongols resolved that problem, or if they just lived with it.

Here's something you might find interesting.

http://www.primitiveways.com/pt-composite_bow.html

http://www.hornbow.com/

There's also a way to make a bow by putting a strong peice of wood between two gemsbok horns and simply stringing it. Takes 10 minutes to make and pulls over 100lbs on average.

WOW! Thanks guys.

from the iliad  book four around line 130, "Pandarus took up his bow of polished horn,
made from a nimble wild goat he himself once shot
under the chest, as it leapt down from a rock.
He'd waited in an ambush and hit it in the front.                                           
The goat fell down onto the rocks, landing on its back.                     
Horns on its head were sixteen palm widths long.
A man skilled in shaping horn had worked on them,                       130        [110]
so as to fit the horns together to create a bow.
He'd polished it all over, adding gold caps
snugly fitted on the tips."  he ends up shooting menalaus and ending the truce.  this bow (according to homer) was about 4 feet long so it fits the description.  i wish i had that bow

ah yes but no man was strong enough to even string it but odyssius

they where trying to take over his kingdom and his wife. I would of shot him

haha yes indeed