"Longbow" Rant ...

[Shredd]

Shredd, what's you think?

I am still trying to understand why the front of the bow is called the back...

 It's kind of embarrassing and I think it takes away from the nobility of a bow when you are explaining to an non-archer that this is called Reflex/Deflex bow and they look at you sideways and say, "Say What??"

[Roy from Pa]

LOL

And the sight window has no glass?

And a bow has a riser?

OMG....

[Autumnarcher]

THen ya got your nocks for the string, the nock set on the string, and then nocks on the arrows. Total lack of originality in naming all these. I think whoever named all these the same got nocked on the head.

[Flem]

Don't forget the "I" beam and string silencers.

[Roy from Pa]

And the bow quiver..

I thought ya put arrows in the quiver?

[Crooked Stic]

And ya got your overthinkers--------

[fujimo]

the one that gets me is "paradox"
the way the shaft shot around the riser was counter intuitive or a contradiction to common sense, but now with high speed cameras etc, we have a better understanding of the mechanics, but no one is going to change the terminology

[Rob DiStefano]

yeah, but is it an AFL?       

[Roy from Pa]

Whats an AFL?

[Rob DiStefano]

Whats an AFL?

American Football League

    

[Flem]

That little fella's going to grow up to be the next Howard Hill!