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Reply #45 - May 17th, 2006 at 4:04pm
 
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I looked again at DTB's photos.  I do believe you are right, my friend.  Douglas is probably laughing his head off at my sober pontificating about something he isn't even doing...

But I still intend to find my bow, and see if it would work and if there is any excess strain on my arm.  I would note that the position of the right hand and arm, is not that different from the starting stance for a Greek underhand cast (David Taylor's videos, or see any post by Hondero, his avatar shows the position).

Or maybe I am just trying to keep from admitting I am an idiot.
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Reply #46 - May 17th, 2006 at 7:13pm
 
haha the pic even had me fooled for a little while.  Grin I have my palm faceing me, and the string is way far away from my cheek Smiley
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Reply #47 - May 18th, 2006 at 5:09pm
 
DtB, what kind of arrows do you use?
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Reply #48 - May 18th, 2006 at 8:07pm
 
I get some rose wood that are growing stright and tall and cut that. I string that up and let it dry.

I hear that medevial people would split wood like ceder and whatnot then shave that down to make shafts. I might try that some day.
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Reply #49 - May 21st, 2006 at 10:48am
 
Most people in the middle ages used hardwood shafts.  Ash was apparently preferred.
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Reply #50 - May 23rd, 2006 at 8:45pm
 
I have a description of how to do that but i cant make heads or tails of it. The meathod was looked at with some distane as an indean wrote it. He calls that method of arrow making "White mans way to make an arrow by reaching around his elbow to scratch his ass" Grin
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