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Morphy Slinging.org Moderator Offline Checkmate Posts: 8221	How to bow videos Jan 31^st, 2011 at 5:27pm I really got a kick out of these videos. These "how to" videos get worse and worse everyday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT2nlE2bo7k&NR=1&feature=fvwp www.youtube.com/watch?v=YukK2aiMcNA&NR=1&feature=fvwp
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Bill Skinner Forum Moderation Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 3292	Re: How to bow videos Reply #1 - Jan 31^st, 2011 at 7:34pm Those are bad, real bad. Bill
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Dan Interfector Viris Spurii SlingingGuide Moderator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 3974 Gender:	Re: How to bow videos Reply #2 - Feb 1^st, 2011 at 8:02pm Wow uhh I don't know what to say other than, .
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Morphy Slinging.org Moderator Offline Checkmate Posts: 8221	Re: How to bow videos Reply #3 - Feb 2^nd, 2011 at 12:38am I think this is one of those things that it's so bad it's good.
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starhiker Descens Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 177 Eatonville, Washington Gender:	Re: How to bow videos Reply #4 - Feb 8^th, 2011 at 5:24pm And I thought my home made bows were primitive!
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Reply #5 - Feb 11^th, 2011 at 6:51am

I feel like those videos actually made me stupider

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Mauro Fiorentini Forum Moderation Offline Forge your future with the hammer of your mind! Posts: 3442 Ancona, Italy. Gender:	Re: How to bow videos Reply #6 - Feb 12^th, 2011 at 3:00pm Archaeologically, the second video's test has a great value. How do you think men invented archery? I bet the way showed by that guy is the right one. Thinking as an experimental archaeologist. Thinking as an archer, his bow sucks. Mauro.
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Reply #7 - Feb 13^th, 2011 at 4:12pm

MF we are actually not really sure what older bows looked like we can only guess from cave paintings that they looked someting like this )

, obviously being made out of wood they would have biodegraded by now (unless they were rapidly buried then petrified which would be really cool) . The reason they guess they were really primitve were because indians had poorer quality bows than the english long bows however I find it more likely that they were pretty much always just a stick that got smaller towards the ends and quality just realized on the bower/craftsmen. If you gave an indian 400years ago metal tools I am sure he would have made a beautiul bow.

I was pretty good at slinging like 10 years ago.

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Reply #8 - Feb 13^th, 2011 at 5:59pm

Dan wrote on Feb 13^th, 2011 at 4:12pm:

MF we are actually not really sure what older bows looked like we can only guess from cave paintings that they looked someting like this )

That's not altogether true. There is still a culture that use the most primitive form of the bow that we know of, the bushmen of the Kalahari Desert. They select a sapling, strip it of bark, rub it with another sick to burnish it, and end up with a simple ) shaped bow.

It's even more primitive than a bundle bow, but it is not like "Robinhood's" bow at all.

Pikåru wrote on Nov 19^th, 2013 at 6:59pm:

Massi - WTF? It's called a sling. You use it to throw rocks farther and faster than you could otherwise. That's all.
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Morphy Slinging.org Moderator Offline Checkmate Posts: 8221	Re: How to bow videos Reply #9 - Feb 13^th, 2011 at 8:11pm NA made beautiful bows even without metal tools. With metal tools they would have been even more amazing I am sure though.
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Reply #10 - Feb 14^th, 2011 at 2:44pm

My tribe of Norwegian Apaches made our bows back in the .70s by cutting an ash/yew/hazel sapling, whittling the thicker half a bit thinner/flatter on the side pointing back toward us, cutting a notch in each end, making a loop in a nylon/poly string, looping it over one notch, bending the bow and tying the other end of the string to the other notch.
They sucked, but was primitive Cheesy

Our sapling arrows was worse, we cut them fresh and straight so they could dry into curves by themselves Sad

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Hitting stuff with this equipment barely ever happened

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Reply #11 - Feb 14^th, 2011 at 6:07pm

Morphy wrote on Feb 13^th, 2011 at 8:11pm:

NA made beautiful bows even without metal tools. With metal tools they would have been even more amazing I am sure though.

Maki there are probably several cultures that still do it the same way they always did and I agree with you but, this is not what the guy with the box cutters made all he did was strip off the branches.

Morphy I had kind of a foot in mouth moment there you are totally right Embarrassed

I was reading over "Hunting with a Bow and Arrow" by Saxton Pope http://canteenshop.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/huntingwithabowandarr... (great book) and he mentions about how Ishi's bow was the most beautiful he had ever seen, I guess when you are using stone tools it ensure you take your time and be patient, giving you a nice and even bow.

I was pretty good at slinging like 10 years ago.

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Bill Skinner Forum Moderation Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 3292	Re: How to bow videos Reply #12 - Feb 19^th, 2011 at 8:49pm Even the cavemen making the first bows probably wold have done a better job than that second video. They had been working wood for spears, fish boxes, snares and traps, and baskets for a long time. They were making tools such as the atlatl that had to flex in a consistent manner and not break when being used. Bill
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Blauwefox Tiro Offline Metamorphically speaking, schist happens ... Posts: 26 Calgary	Re: How to bow videos Reply #13 - Mar 7^th, 2011 at 8:19pm Videos made me LOL . Thanks for posting. Would be a good project for a 6-10 YO kid on a boring summer day though. Reminds me of my first bamboo bow I made when I was 8, with eraser tipped arrows as not to accidentally kill anything. Ah, bamboo! The perfect material for home made toys ....
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