ive never pulled the string back on a self-bow.....but by looking at the pics of one i'll bet they stack a ton....

Do they Stack a bunch?????

Not a ton. They will stack after a certain point. Especially ones witha heavier draw weight. And they usually have a bit of hand shock. But that is the purest form of archery. A beautiful self bow with rose wood arrows and turkey feather fletchings tied with silk or sinew.

are they simular to an Hill style bow as far as shockis concerned?

A self bow can be about as sweet as any laminated bow--using heat/steam, you can make a deflex/reflex longbow or even a recurve. Straight limbed selfbows are similar in hand shock to laminated bows of the same design.

Stack depends on draw length, bow length, tiller, etc. I have an osage selfbow that draws very smoothly to at least 30".

Chad

Thanks Chad.

There is absolutely nothing inherent about selfbows that would make them stack. Selfbows that are properly designed and tillered for a given draw length willpull very uniformly to full draw.

Selfbows typically have more limb mass and less handle mass than their fiberglass laminated counterparts, which may lend to feelinga slight bump. Again, though, if properly designed and constructed, this is by no meansremarkable and certainly not the least bit unpleasant.

I was hot on the idea of wanting a selfbow. I first thought I wanted hickory. Still had stacking, I then moved on looking at ash, oak, and others. I for one am not a fan of the looks of osage. I know I am a minority. Only bow I found I liked was when it was backed with bamboo or a mixture of backings.