Greetings from New Zealand. Thanks for the clarification, Sir. To be honest I'm happy shooting a whole range of bow types. Got to admit I love my English longbow, it certainly gets the most use from my extensive collection of bows. Flaxen Saxon.
...And then you have what some of us call a Howard Hill style bow, which is really an AFB with straight, unreflexed and undeflexed limbs. You're right. Something so simple can be quite complicated.
Normally classified as a longbow when the string doesn't touch the limbs. but like Jim said varies per organisation. I used to shoot an AFB before but recently switched to a bucktrail antelop as I wanted something that had a bit more arrow speed.
Errrr what language what that? Long bow? Huh? haha Good and vague explanation of a seemingly simple thing that we've all gone and made super complicated haha. Keep'um Comin Jim!
Growing up in Sweden and USA I think of bows as long, medium, or short in size... The size does not tell you what kind of bow it is, just the size... Not sure how so many are confused when all the types of bows have their own names separate from the size name...
Hey Jim would you ever review the Ragim wolf flatbow? I'm interested in the correct way to grip it too as the grip is different to a lot of other bows.
Aaaaand then you also have co fusion from the exact same words (reflex and deflex) also referring to the handle position... I find it weird to even say reflex-deflex for a hybrid when it's basically just mildly recurved :/
In recurve the arrow rest is in the center of the bow but I've seen some longbows for sale were the arrow shelf is slightly off to the left for a right handed bow, is this common? I've heard this referred to as not-center-cut. Then the english longbow without any shelf at tall must cause your arrow to rest on one side of the bow. How do you compensate so that your not always shooting left?
You cannot shoot the 2nd bow you showed at 2:44 - 3:18 as a longbow in WA, because the string is touching the limbs. (There is also a kind of a "paper-test", which sometimes is applied)
But not all longbows are flat (I assume you mean flatbows/AFB should just be categorised as that, in some cases they are, but technically they are still a longbow, the classification has a lot to do with competition classes, in which there's no point in distinguishing between flatbows and longbows )
@@MerlinArchery they will still shoot you down, brother....although, it might take them few attempts to potentially hit you with their individually spine checked tapered arrows....🤣🤣🤣
It wasn't. Longbows are way older than Wales or England are.The oldest longbow specimen can be traced back to 2690 BC. What commonly is referred to as English longbow, that some argue was Welsh longbow, are yew longbows that use the sap and heart wood of yew trees as the back and belly of the bow respectively (the sap wood is spring like under tension, the heart wood can take higher loads of compression) The confusion with Welsh bows, really comes from Welsh yeoman mercenaries who were elite in the use of yew bows around 12th century. The English saw how effective the Welsh yeoman were and adopted elite training with yew long bows, which is when it became law for all Englishmen above a certain age to train in archery every Sunday after mass. It was this level of training that really made the "English" longbow famous it's as much the archers were elites in the art than about the bows
Just checked on it, according to a counts from "Gerald of wales" circa 1188. : "They are made neither of horn, ash nor yew, but of elm" Which would distinguish them from later "English " yew longbows. Regardless, the ability of the archer was what was foremost impressive about them. And in turn inspired the English to become elite archers. In short, it was the archer rather than the bow that was special
I'm sorry but just because the industry categorises something as such does not make it so! Most of these categories have been created purely and simply to cash in on the cache of the traditional English. "Longbow" which is the only true "longbow", in a cynical commercial way to make more money. If your message is shoot what you wants to shoot because it's fun, I totally agree with you, in which case, why bother make this video where you just bored?
@@yawningdog9894 just because something is a long bow, as opposed to a short bow, does not mean it's a "Longbow", to call it such just confuses the buyer
