yeah I know that, I'm just saying that from a modern standpoint, we who don't normally ride horses (we use them darned gas-guzzlers instead) would have more use for an English Longbow in most things, as well as the TBB. V. 2 fact that horsebows are not meant as "hard use" bows, they are normally (if made of traditional materials)"coddled" in special warming boxes and are "conditioned" prior to useage in anything...though that could just be the Korean design itself that needs it...but anyway, the English longbow, (medieval version), is better suited to what our culture uses bows for today, and while I understand the fact that horsebows are shorter, this also, according to TBB. V. 1, "design and performance" chapter says that they're also less stable, and therefore less accurate than a good ol' "C" tillered ELB, and Though this is my humble opinion, I think that the reason the horsebow (in mongol use) declined to a sport (besides the invention of gunpowder) was that, on their conquest of Europe, they "ran into" forests, where their horseback tactics would be rendered ineffective...
Derek