Agree with jchocz above. The carved string alignment ridge on the siyah is obviously off center. Send it back for a replacement. You can't fix this.
52 2012-08-27 02:21:20
Re: hello from Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland (4 replies, posted in New Member Introductions)
Joe (Raven),
I've just started to make the comparisons having recently acquired a chronograph and gram scale and homemade draw/scale device. Very new to this but have some preliminary pics up on my photo site at < http://tonygt19.smugmug.com/Archery/Dyn … ;k=P2hd75B >.
Will be making comparisons for a friend looking to import some fiberglass hybrids from China. These are not quite in the same league with the Hwarang but should be cheap and especially good for beginners. They are surprizingly light and fast though. I'll move this to a new topic in 'Bows" when more complete.
53 2012-08-18 03:27:04
Re: hello from Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland (4 replies, posted in New Member Introductions)
Thanks Raven for the welcome and the encouragement over the Saluki Bows. Much of what one aquires in this area has to be done on trust based on widespread approval in forums. Its not like you can go down to Walmart and feel the fit and finish of a hwarang bow. Even nearby Lancaster Archery isn't sure what they are. Finding Saluki bows is trek thru the internet til you get to his site, but what a site. These are some of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. I did order a 54 inch Crimean Tatar hybrid at 45 #@28 ". I've since been using the thumb ring exclusively on the Hwarang and have become comfortable with a 31-32 " draw so I should get a few more pounds out of it. I also ordered a 70lb@28" Turk hybrid at 50 inches. Overdraw might be tougher on that one.
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54 2012-08-17 19:00:30
Topic: hello from Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland (4 replies, posted in New Member Introductions)
Hi, looking for the perfect horsebow. Very happy with the 45#@28" Hwarang I got recently through Thomas (Bluelake). Busy making comparisons with Chinese bows and eagerly awaiting a couple of Saluki bows for more tests.
Cheers,
Tony
55 2012-08-16 15:13:18
Re: Bow string (30 replies, posted in Accessories)
Sissara,
Right, the bowstring twisting thing in the “War of the Arrows” movie was just a dramatic ploy to set up the main character’s impossible shots, i.e. making the arrows curve around objects. In reality if you twist the bowstring excessively in a thumb ring grip you will simply cause greater sideways oscillation of the bowstring on release. It is the sideways oscillation of the bowstring while it is pushing the arrow forward that causes the archer’s paradox as is clearly shown in this video < www.youtube.com/watch?v=96KGWC0PB6s >. So if you artificially increase the paradox you can get fishtailing once the arrow leaves the bow.
cheers,
Tony
56 2012-08-16 03:18:00
Re: Bow string (30 replies, posted in Accessories)
imperial wrote:
In the movie the actor after he draws the bow to the full extent he twists his bow string with the fingers to 45 degree in order to tighten further the string before he release the arrows. Wonder if such move exists in traditional Korean archery or just dramatic acts in the movie. The name of the movie is "Ultimate Weapon - Bow" and it is a very interesting movie with lots of bow shooting scene.
Imperial, that’s a good observation. I watched the movie several times because I was fascinated with the historical accuracy of the clothing, cultural enactments and archery equipment and shooting styles depicted in the movie. People nowadays do twist their knuckles into the string when using a thumbring usually to tighten a loosely nocked arrow to the string and press it against the bow for stability before release. But the movie used this movement to preface a somewhat mystical achievement of this main character , the disenfranchised son of a fallen nobleman. This character’s only salvation was his dedication to his archery using his father’s Korean horn bow. The movie shows he has become an unusually talented archer as a young man when he fells a running deer with a tong-ah and aegisal . The mystical achievement is that he has somehow managed to learn to cast arrows on a curved path (right to left, not in a gravitational arch). While this is possible with a ball, a vertically spinning baseball can in fact curve to one side. It is impossible with an arrow which spins on the axis of its flight. Of course the wind can take an arrow sideways in flight but in this movie it is plain the hero controls his arrows this way. And it is plain his twisting gf the string has something to do with it. In the denouement scene he sends an arrow around his sister’s neck into the neck of the villain holding her as a human shield. It took me several viewings to pick this out as it is never plainly addressed except by the Chinese commander in his final words.