while they did try short bh bows, they weren't shooting them with string loops, dropaways and STS's to keep the strings off their hands. Also, they were built using inferior materials and not many people really knew how to shoot with a consistent form either.
Oh, please, quicksilver, keep telling me how we used to do things. It's SO entertaining.
Yes, even way back at the turn of the new millenium
, we were using string loops and releases. We certainly did know how to shoot with consistent form. The manufacturers were using exactly the same materials then as they are now. NOTHING has changed in the short time since except the move to longer risers and shorter parallel limbs.
And parallel limb technology, that's not new, if you'll go back and take a look at the old Rigid compound from the 70's. I'll even post up a pic of it for you. Naturally, this was long before they figured out the stuff about reflexing the riser to shorten brace height, but here you had a 34" axle to axle bow with a machined aluminum riser.
