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Title: Abner Shepherdson Long Bow
Post by: laire on August 20, 2017, 01:43:00 PM

Some of you out there may know about Abner Shepherdson and his legacy.  I have a Shepherdson 48 lb. longbow and will include some images if anyone is interested, (Not sure how to post pics on this site). I would appreciate any info regarding historical background of Shepherdson any of you may have.  A beautiful bow, heat-stamped, missing parts of the horns.

Title: Re: Abner Shepherdson Long Bow
Post by: hardbern on August 23, 2017, 08:42:00 AM

There's bits & pieces about him in the NAA history & mentions in Robert Elmer's Archery, American Archery, Target Archery. There's his patent on his take-apart/joint mechanism for longbows, which features in the bow that Jack Churchill is purported to have used to shoot the German sentry in WWII.
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