Someone Know About Archery?

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I know that this is a strange place to put this, but I figure a bunch of "traditionalists" would know.

I had been involved with Traditional archery for a number of years, but through ill health can no longer use most of my bow. Does anyone know of a Website where I can sell my stuff? I'm gonna keep two of my longbows, but I've got some stuff that is pretty nice, and compound people just don't understand.

Thanks for any help.

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DeathDancer
 
Your best bet is to advertise where there is interest in Traditional archery. Do a search on the topic with altavista or google. One site is:

http://www.stickbow.com/HOME1.HTML

There is also a traditional archery magazine. I don't know if it is still around.

I too shot traditional archery and enjoyed or will one day enjoy it greatly again. It is best enjoyed with a 17.5" WWII khukuri handing off my belt. Great for prying out arrow heads or chopping out the log the arrow is stuck into.

A few traditional archers here.

Good luck.

Will

[This message has been edited by Will Kwan (edited 01-07-2001).]
 
Thanks everyone for the advice. My search engines only seem to find places that sell new equipment--I thought that there would be at least some auction or sale Websites out there. Most everything seems to be attached to a "gun" Website, and mostly cater to the "wheels, cable, and cam" crowd. As I said, thought I'd get sound advice at this place.

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DeathDancer
 
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DD I don't know if there's a place on Deja News for trad archery,but I would almost be willing to bet there is. Deja News has rec:knives and rec:guns and several martial arts forums. You might try a search on Deja News and see what comes up.

I would also try the For Sale Forum here on bladeforums. There seems to be a fair amount of trad archers in the 8,000+ members here.
Seems like there was some guys talkin about stickbows and such on the practical tactical and survival forums a while back as well.

Give Terry the 1st chance though.
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Terry says he shoots stickbows and that he does!!!
One of them is way over 100 Lbs draw!!!
Terry wasn't that 142#'s to
be exact?

My memory is beginning to be none existant.LMAO, probably a good thing too as I can now be a whole lot better than I really was. hehhehehe.


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Yvsa,
Your right about the draw weight, but that bow makes me snap and pop a little now.
Thats what happens when you get to busy to practice. But along with the new year comes new plans. I plan on hitting the longbow hard this year and getting back to the way I used to be.
Terry
 
If Terry isn't interested and you're still looking for a place to post "for sale" information, try <A HREF="http://www.bowsite.com">www.bowsite.com</a>, or <A HREF="http://www.stickbow.com">www.stickbow.com</a>. They both cater to traditional archers, and I think they both have classified/for sale sections. Also try the Leatherwall. (Sorry, I don't have the URL for that one.)
 
I shoot a 76" 70# longbow with a 31 1/2" draw.
Not a common bow. And not for a common man. I shoot instintive and draw to the mandible under the ear. I am 6'3".I would have a hard time selling my Osage by Dean Torgas and my English Yew by Bill Darr. I would not sell them anyway. If I get too old, I`ll give them away.

Not to many can draw 70# at 31 1/2"

Did you check the "Mary Rose" site?

All is fair on Bill`s forum.

Bill couldn`t draw those bows now.
 
Bows offered for sale on alt.archery.traditional seem to move pretty quick; maybe you could try there.

If anyone's interested in trad archery, it's a reasonably good newsgroup, though the traffic's not very heavy. Still, some pretty clued-up people seem to stop by there from time to time.

I should've known there'd be some traditional bowyers in this forum... Anybody made a bow out of osage? That's one wood I'd love to try!
 
I've shot a number of bows made of Osage Orange. While a lot depends on the bowyer and his construction/design, I know that Osage seems to shoot without a lot of "stack", and also seems to have a lot of cast for its size and weight.

All of the Osage bows I have shot drew very smoothly and had very little handshock (if you shoot longbows, something you will always live with).

Of course, this pertains mostly to self bows. It's amazing what one can accomplish with glass lminations, even in a traditional bow design. I still haven't had a chance to shoot a self bow made of Yew.

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DeathDancer
 
One is a production/custom by Twentieth Century Longbows, out of Texas, made in the reflex/deflex style, out of Osage Orange. These are strange bows, because, unstrung they look like a recurve. But, when strung, they look like your regular "stick and string". While shot and accepted in most traditional contests, very technologically advanced, since you can used the new "stretchless Flemish strings" without shocking the limbs into fracturing.

The other is a custom recurve takedown bow, built by "Duke" Savora from Washington state. Duke died about 10 years ago, and his bows have taken somewhat of a collector value. Mine has a Bubinga riser (handle), maple limbs with brown glass laminations, and has a genuine Lion hair rest that has managed to last since 1980 when I originally purchased. I even managed to talk Duke out an extra set of limbs a year before he died.

I do not shoot with sights, stabilizers, or any of the bells and whistles that plague modern archery. I shoot instinctively, use a tab or shooting glove, and my arrows give off the faint smell of cedar or douglas fir.

And, while I will always shoot a bow (I'm keeping two of my longbows--my first and my last acquired), it is a very sad fact of life the one gets ill and one gets old. Howard Hill, Frank Eicholtz, Roman Hill, and Rube Powell (a personal acquaintance, and if you ain't heard of ole Rube, you ain't into archery) all shot 100 pound bows at one time or another. All ended up shooting lesser bows in later years.

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DeathDancer

[This message has been edited by DeathDancer (edited 01-08-2001).]
 
FNG,
I shoot a 75# longbow drawn to 28". I also have a 142# pioneer longbow also drawn to 28". I like shooting for distance with this one.
I used to shoot a 90# Pioneer longbow but I sold it, that was a stupid thing to do! I miss that bow.
Terry
 
How quickly we forget. ( Including me. )

DD, don't you remember just 2 days ago when you got your 30" KK and I reminded you not to pull a Yvsa and dance in the altogether with the KK til you knew each other better? Yvsa said the khuk that made him feel like doing that was a 17" village sirupati that he ( and I quote from the "Now I've gone and done it!" thread )

"...traded it off for several nice chunks of BoisD'Arc or Osage Orange *for*stick*bows* and knife handles."

Point being that like I said about the foster kids on my caseload, you can take two that never met, release one at the north end of the Astrodome, and one at the south end, and they'll find each other inside 30 minutes.
Same with this forum. If you belong here, ain't no preventing it from happening.

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Yep, Rusty, it should come as no surprise that khukuri khooks are also into throwin' things with sticks and strings.
My den now is loaded down with seven bows. I started with the longbow a looooong time ago: like 1941...but in the 60's I fell in love with the sexy recurves, and have never looked back. No more hand shock for me!
Not being an adonis, my bows are a good deal lighter than those mentioned here already. But sheer poundage is not the only criterion of excellence in a bow...particularly the laminated reflex designs.
Anyone care to join my club? It's called 'Archers Who Refuse To Call Those Cable Device Things Bows' (Tried one once, didn't like it!)
A year or so ago, my frau gifted me with the three volumes of the Traditional Bowyer's Bible books...great reference and 'I can dream' material in there.

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