its in the family

[broketooth]

i was talking to my 88 yr old grand father about traditional archery and he dug out these photo's of him in 1952 the first one is when he won the belgian national indoor archery championship this second photo is of him in his robinhood outfit that he would shoot in with the club he belonged to in antwerp,belgium. . he told me the bow he is shooting is 72" bamboo backed yew longbow that pulls 56#@28"draw. notice the bowyers knot at the bottom nock. shooting of the finger, and how the bottom limb is shorter than the top. i thought these were cool to share. thanks for lookin

[John Dill]

Rudy

I enjoyed seeing those pictures this past weekend! Its a great thing to have a family history that envolves archery! see you at Hickory

[fireball31]

Very cool pics.

[reddogge]

Very interesting.  The arrow in the first pic looks like one of those arrows used for a game to shoot wooden birds with.

I did notice that the rest portion appears in the center of the bow and he used a two finger draw.  Great form though.

[Mike Gerardi]

Sweet pics.. For all the same reasons you listed.      

[WestTnMan]

Interesting.......two finger release too. That is a loooong bow.

[KENDALL TECHAU]

That's really neat! I wonder if the bow was a sleeve handle take-down?

[Gatekeeper]

Neat pictures!

From the looks of it this is a good example of a low wrist grip…right? It looks like all the pressure of the bow handle is in the lower part of his palm. Any information about the arrow he was shooting? It seems to be very specialized.

Thanks for show these to us.  

[GMMAT]

That's great stuff, Rudy.

Thanks for sharing those.

[joe skipp]

Old photos are the best...the way archery was meant to be!

[Benny Nganabbarru]

Cool! What's the story with those arrow heads?

[broketooth]

according to my grandfather, those arrows are ment to serve as blunts. they had a series of  targets that sat on a rail, which had to be knocked off in sequence to gain points. im not for certain of the size of the targets,but he did explain that there were six small ones about the size of a rabbit. all of which had to be knocked off in sequence. i think the closest distance they shot was 15 yds , and then they would set up aagain and move back, and do it again.

[Jack Denbow]

Very cool.
Jack

[paleFace]

those old photos Rock!!!thanks for sharing