A very interesting look back into archery History

[Mudd]

It's wet, cold and just downright yucky outside so I went looking around on the computer and here's a site I think quite a few will find interesting.

 http://anthromuseum.missouri.edu/grayson/grayson.shtml

It sure gives me some more ideas on bows,bow designs and archery related gear. After looking at some of this stuff I found myself thinking there isn't much new in the world, but there's a lot of re-does of old ideas.

If this needs to be moved to a different forum I'll understand.

Enjoy!

God bless,Mudd

[PrarrieDog]

Wow, you could spend hours there. I want to try a thumb ring and this site has good information.
Thanks Mudd!

[hayslope]

Great web site Mudd.

That's an interesting bow setup they are shooting....obviously trying to set distance records.  I could not find anything related to the actual construction of those bows.  Looks like they were set up to allow for an extended draw.

Thumb rings facinate me.  I would love to give one a try sometime.

[walkabout]

awesome find mudd    always great to find a site that has something ive never seen and detailed to boot. thanks for posting it.

[Mudd]

I understand why you could see anything about constructing any of the bows you look at on that site.

It's a museum located in Columbia, MO. They house the largest collection of archery and archery related items in the world.(I believe I read that as fact somewhere)

The Columbia Area Archery club got to help unpack all of this stuff when it arrived. How very cool do you think that was? I can tell you 1st hand...WAY!!!!!

If you look through the site in its entirety you could be online for awhile.. Some really cool stuff in there for sure.
 
God bless, Mudd

[joekeith]

Roy......I think that hat has gone to your head..  

[Tom Phillips]

Charles "Burt" Grayson compiled one of if not the largest archery collection in the world.Quite an individual he passed away last year.Was fortunate enough to have written him and conversed via email he signed some arrows for me and sent me a piece of Asiatic Water Buffalo Horn he had.He loved Flight shooting.He was involved in a book that has been publised title is something like " Archery on Six Continents".

[walkabout]

the barbed arrows on that page remind me of island tribes' stingray barb tipped arrows and spears.

[yekrut]

I went there last summer to see the musem, pretty cool , and interesting!!

[JEJ]

Thanks Mudd, glad MO got that bad weather and you went surfing around and found this site. You are right, at least one thing we all have in common with everyone else on this old blue marble is that somewhere up our family tree a bow and arrow likely put dinner on the fire.  

[cbCrow]

Thanks Mudd,     what a great site. I didn't have a lot of time to look, but saved it so later this evening I will take a much better look!