Reflex/deflex
08-06-2009, 08:40 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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08-06-2009, 12:30 PM
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Depends on who you ask. Chek-Mate's Longhorn is the first one that comes to my mind (reckon why?). Shrew's are radical, Black Forrest, Black Creek, Voodoo, Navajo,....most any of the short "longbows".
I don't call them hybrids. The deflex/reflex design was around thousands of years before Howard Hill, and I'm pretty sure before the English longbow.
Chad
I don't call them hybrids. The deflex/reflex design was around thousands of years before Howard Hill, and I'm pretty sure before the English longbow.
Chad
08-07-2009, 08:46 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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Chad id like to see a pic of the longhorns profile when its unstrung.....do you have one ????
i always wondered what that bow looks like unstrung.
i always wondered what that bow looks like unstrung.
Last edited by Alpha Capo; 08-07-2009 at 08:49 AM.
08-17-2009, 09:34 AM
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Dominant Buck
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I cannot remember the name of the guy who has come up with it, but the double deflex is pretty darn radical. I have yet to see on made all organic. I believe that style has to be put under glass. I made one out of bamboo and Osage but had to tiller it to a kids weight because the raw materials could not handle that radical of a design. I think I’ll make a glass laminated one later this year to see if I like shooting that design.