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11-09-2009, 09:49 AM
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what is 'traditional' archery?
IMO. it's anything without wheels, including non-wheeled x-bows, that delivers an arrow.
the x-bow goes back to approximately the 9th century A.D. up until the 1950's bows/x-bows did not have wheels. JMO...  
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11-10-2009, 09:22 AM
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Hmmm having recently gotten back into archery my take on traditional is that it depends on the region/country your in/from. In England it was the Longbow although recurves eventually sneaked in but places like the Steeps of Hungary they used a shorter recurve Horse Bow. In central Asia it seems to ahve been recurves as well yet Japan had a verly long limber bow that was drawn from only 1/3 down the bow really weird looking.
I brought a used outfit, a modern target recurve with alloy riser foam carbon limbs (36lbs) and a long rod stabiliser. There is NO bow hunting in the UK so it targets only and this set up will out last me. After a break of over 30 years it's taking a lot of learning again.
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02-16-2014, 06:37 PM
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I have no idea..the term Traditional wasn't around when I started shooting recurves in the 50's. We just shot the best recurves and longbows we could get.
Some used sights, stabilizers, whatever made them shoot better. I didn't hear the term Traditional until after compounds came about. Seems like a lot of the things we used in the old days are looked down on now by the self described traditionalist.
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