design stuff, flight shooting, blah

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Does a Korean bow hold the longest shot recorded with a natural horn composite? Why not?

Would a heavily reflexed (I've seen pictures of some with ears crossing each other, even if most aren't nearly as reflexed and narrow as the average Korean horn bow) turkish style bow somehow have more cast because it only bends in a small portion or something? Besides, Turkish bows aren't usually drawn as far... ...

The seller of that Korean horn bow on ebay said it draws smoothly to 34" even though it is only 44" notch to notch, I assume this means that the string length is 44" in this case, or just a straight line between the string notches. This is a lot more than the 33" for 48" straight line braced ntn  (53" model, 53" contour length) of my Nomad synthetic bow... which is still long enough for me. but still.

The horn bow appears to have proportionally longer ears that point forward more. And lots of setback handle. I would guess that setback handle can increase stack and decrease the max draw length. but it looks good and maybe can make a bow faster like whip tillering or something.

this says a little setback is good?
http://www.bio.vu.nl/thb/users/kooi/kooi96.pdf

edit

Guess this should've been in bows...

I was wondering, is this a regular korean target bow? Who is this? Is that his full draw?