Comparing Hwarang to Saluki 70Lbs at 28

Storm,
The 70lb Saluki is a 50 inch Turkish Hybrid. The Saluki hybrids vary in materials but this one uses two laminations of bamboo as a limb core, and black fiberglass backing. Lukas Novotny , the bowyer , wouldn't tell me what the belly material was as he prefers to keep that proprietary but it is not horn. It seems to be a type of fiberglass but not the same as the backing. Novotny was a glassblower before he became the Saluki Company so he may have access to exotic glass based materials or may have developed his own compression resistant flexible glass. He only said it took him a long time to get to this material. He also said he's developed some new material that is even better and is experimenting with it now.  The handle is Osage Orange with white faux inlay. The siyah core is maple. What ever he uses, the bow limbs bend the same  no matter how you try to torque or  press high or low on the handle while drawing. It's amazing how stable this thing is.

Yeah, Saluki's aren't hard on the eye but they are pretty hard on the wallet. What the Korean traditional bows lack in decoration they sure make up for in performance and price. You really can't go wrong with either. If you're interested there are a few more pics of both on my photo site. Just Google my forum name and "traditional archery".
Cheers,
tonygt19

From "Bluelake", AKA Prof. Thomas Duvarney, he started this forum, wrote the book and is the person most responsible for bringing Korean Traditional Archery to the rest of the world particularly the US. You can order the Hwarang from him through http://www.koreanarchery.org/classic/hwarangbow.html

Thanks appreciate it.

The same, 33" I believe it is pulling about 5-7 lbs less than the Hwarang at that point. If you look closely at the Saluki profie you'll see that the siyah is very long and has two stages of engagement. The first part , nearest the grip, is already engaged as a lever at the brace. That part is hard to pull. When the string lifts away from the second part of the siyah nearest the tip you suddenly have twice as long a lever acting on the very short strong bending part of the limb. The increase in draw weight per length is decreased resulting in an easier finish. So arrow acceleration after the release gets stacked toward the front resulting in a very fast bow.

From my experience I would definitely scratch off anything by Grozer.  Even if you get a good bow by Grozer, it will still be inferior to a Hwarang or Saluki. 

That being said, Lukas' bows have a feel to them that screams 'this is what you want for hunting'.  The price for a Saluki is kinda steep though these days.  Korean bows are excellent of course but I don't take mine out hunting.  Not that it couldn't do the job, more like its just not preferred.  A Hwarang though will give you much 'boom for your buck' as the saying goes.

However, I'd also consider Golhan Turk bows and Mariner.  Both of these are very good choices and excellent values!