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Author Topic: Hybrid longbow & Semi recurve What's the difference?  (Read 127 times)

Offline LYONEL

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Hybrid longbow & Semi recurve What's the difference?
« on: August 19, 2012, 07:34:00 AM »
Hybrid longbow & Semi recurve What's the difference?
Who decides what's a longbow & what's a recurve?
And what's a Sasquatch takedown with the hybrid limbs?(my new bow which I love)

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Re: Hybrid longbow & Semi recurve What's the difference?
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2012, 07:49:00 AM »
I am no bowyer, but see no real difference between semirecurve and hybrid bows, just the origin of the terms, SR being coined in the fifties/sixties, and hybrid being coined when the limb style was 'rediscovered' in the eighties or nineties.

Classification for competition is that a longbow's string does not touch the bow past the string nocks, whereas a recurve string rides the curve until the bow is drawn.

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