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Topic: Cold weather and bow shooting.

How do you shoot with very cold weather?

Especially thumbring?

Just have some shooting with my longbow and KTB, maybe 5 minutes at a time, it is -25C/-13F right now...  yikes

Longbow i use shooting glove and half glove, still can´t shoot than few minutes.

KTB i have glove which have no thumb so thumbring fits. Did not feel my thumb for a while. big_smile 
Should i make one thumbring with bigger hole, so glove would fit under it?

Or must make glove with very thick thumb, how about glue some horn on it?  tongue

Edit: Fixed temperatures...

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Re: Cold weather and bow shooting.

Those are some serious negative tempratures, believe I'd stay someplace warm!  sad

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Re: Cold weather and bow shooting.

WillScarlet wrote:

Those are some serious negative tempratures, believe I'd stay someplace warm!  sad

...except that -25C would be -13F.  -77F would be -60C  Still cold, though...

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Re: Cold weather and bow shooting.

bluelake wrote:
WillScarlet wrote:

Those are some serious negative tempratures, believe I'd stay someplace warm!  sad

...except that -25C would be -13F.  -77F would be -60C  Still cold, though...

Well, that must be right, don´t really know how Fahrenheits go...

Ok, -25C is -13F, +25C is +77F am i right? smile

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Re: Cold weather and bow shooting.

Hannu wrote:
bluelake wrote:
WillScarlet wrote:

Those are some serious negative tempratures, believe I'd stay someplace warm!  sad

...except that -25C would be -13F.  -77F would be -60C  Still cold, though...

Well, that must be right, don´t really know how Fahrenheits go...

Ok, -25C is -13F, +25C is +77F am i right? smile

You are correct.  I wouldn't mind having a little 25C/77F right now  wink

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Re: Cold weather and bow shooting.

It 's 33C here. Humid hot  hmm

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Re: Cold weather and bow shooting.

sissara wrote:

It 's 33C here. Humid hot  hmm

Right now it's 0C (32F) here...

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Re: Cold weather and bow shooting.

so, the question is: can you break a korean bow using it at low temperatures? I mean below 0C.

The temperature here is about -14 right now, very mild weather compared to last week  tongue

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Re: Cold weather and bow shooting.

cristian_iepure wrote:

so, the question is: can you break a korean bow using it at low temperatures? I mean below 0C.

The temperature here is about -14 right now, very mild weather compared to last week  tongue

If just below freezing, I doubt it; however, I have not done really low-temp shooting (although my hometown here in Michigan has had some very low temps in the past--way sub-zero).  I think a bigger problem would be one's fingers shooting in such temps.

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Re: Cold weather and bow shooting.

I have shoot several different bows for very cold temps, no problems so far.

Grozer TRH laminated turkish bow should draw few times slow, before shooting, says seller to me.

So i guess carbon/bamboo/fiberglass-bows should not break, selfbows (all wood) can break.

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