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Where can I buy a Mongolian bow?

Originally posted by: evolvedbullet
I know they shoot well and I think it might suit me for my hunting trips. Where can I get one.
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thought u meatn bow tie. or bow for a chello/violin

whats wrong w/a compund bow?

or if u want "true" archey w/o all the fancy attachments, how about a recurve bow? (aka olympic bow)
 
If your talking about the smallish recurve bow used by the mounted janissaries, you're out of luck as the few remaining are museum pieces. Besides, some of them had draw weights of 120 lbs.
 
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
If your talking about the smallish recurve bow used by the mounted janissaries, you're out of luck as the few remaining are museum pieces. Besides, some of them had draw weights of 120 lbs.
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Don't they make replicas of the real things?!
 
Originally posted by: evolvedbullet
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
If your talking about the smallish recurve bow used by the mounted janissaries, you're out of luck as the few remaining are museum pieces. Besides, some of them had draw weights of 120 lbs.
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Don't they make replicas of the real things?!
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would you trust a replica to shoot properly? Often weapon replicas are made for visual accuracy as opposed to being useable.

Tho, curiously, I'd bet you could get one made custom if you looked around.

Maybe if you described the characteristics you like, a bow manufacturer might have something with the same feel?
 
Originally posted by: yoda291
Originally posted by: evolvedbullet
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
If your talking about the smallish recurve bow used by the mounted janissaries, you're out of luck as the few remaining are museum pieces. Besides, some of them had draw weights of 120 lbs.
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Don't they make replicas of the real things?!
Click to expand...

would you trust a replica to shoot properly? Often weapon replicas are made for visual accuracy as opposed to being useable.

Tho, curiously, I'd bet you could get one made custom if you looked around.

Maybe if you described the characteristics you like, a bow manufacturer might have something with the same feel?
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The originals were made of a 'sandwich' of buffalo horn, tendon and, I believe tortoise shell of all things. The reason, no replicas have been made is that the glue used to bind them together is a lost technology that thus far has yet to be recreated.

They were fired by using an interlocking horn or bone string puller worn on the middle two fingers of the right hand with a overlapping release tab worn on the thumb. Because the pull weights were so great, moving your thumb from the clenched position allowed your middle two fingers to straighten and thus release the bow string.

There are ancient stories of such bows being able to fire an arrow through three, count em, horses the long way! I once had the pleasure of watching one of these bows strung and shot before being donated to the Smithsonian back in 1969. No horses were used but a replica arrow from forty yards passed through a four inch block of Maple.
 
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Originally posted by: yoda291
Originally posted by: evolvedbullet
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
If your talking about the smallish recurve bow used by the mounted janissaries, you're out of luck as the few remaining are museum pieces. Besides, some of them had draw weights of 120 lbs.
Click to expand...

Don't they make replicas of the real things?!
Click to expand...

would you trust a replica to shoot properly? Often weapon replicas are made for visual accuracy as opposed to being useable.

Tho, curiously, I'd bet you could get one made custom if you looked around.

Maybe if you described the characteristics you like, a bow manufacturer might have something with the same feel?
Click to expand...

The originals were made of a 'sandwich' of buffalo horn, tendon and, I believe tortoise shell of all things. The reason, no replicas have been made is that the glue used to bind them together is a lost technology that thus far has yet to be recreated.

They were fired by using an interlocking horn or bone string puller worn on the middle two fingers of the right hand with a overlapping release tab worn on the thumb. Because the pull weights were so great, moving your thumb from the clenched position allowed your middle two fingers to straighten and thus release the bow string.

There are ancient stories of such bows being able to fire an arrow through three, count em, horses the long way! I once had the pleasure of watching one of these bows strung and shot before being donated to the Smithsonian back in 1969. No horses were used but a replica arrow from forty yards passed through a four inch block of Maple.
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very interesting! I learned something.
 
I have a hard enough time with a 40lb draw weight.

Seemed interesting but I decided to go the easy way and propel my projectiles with gunpowder.
 
The Mongols had you covered there too, or at least their decendants, how about carved stone mortars firing 40 lb. carved stone balls? They were part of permanent fortifications along the now Russian border.

Since they couldn't be aimed, white stones were placed in the landing area at three different ranges which were determined by three different loads of powder. Send your troops against the fortifications by passing one of the stones and a whole lotta hurtin comes silently out of the sky because the mortars were muffled by the surrounding rock and the sound of firing went almost straight up!
 
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
If your talking about the smallish recurve bow used by the mounted janissaries, you're out of luck as the few remaining are museum pieces. Besides, some of them had draw weights of 120 lbs.
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there was a show on the history channel about Ghengis Khan and they had realy mongolian bows for the host to shoot. they weren't museum replicas. they still make them over there. whether they are still made the same way as back then i don't know, but theya re still being made.
 
Originally posted by: rivan
Originally posted by: SilthDraeth
grozerarchery

They have Mongolian, as well as Turkish, and other makes. I have been thinking about getting a bow from there.
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Some of their painted bows are works of art. Really gorgeous stuff.
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Exactly, if I bought a bow from them, I do not know if I could bring myself to even go shooting with it, because then I would damage such a nice piece of art.
 
Originally posted by: SilthDraeth
Originally posted by: rivan
Originally posted by: SilthDraeth
grozerarchery

They have Mongolian, as well as Turkish, and other makes. I have been thinking about getting a bow from there.
Click to expand...

Some of their painted bows are works of art. Really gorgeous stuff.
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Exactly, if I bought a bow from them, I do not know if I could bring myself to even go shooting with it, because then I would damage such a nice piece of art.
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Then don't buy a painted one or do they not make them unpainted?
 
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: SilthDraeth
Originally posted by: rivan
Originally posted by: SilthDraeth
grozerarchery

They have Mongolian, as well as Turkish, and other makes. I have been thinking about getting a bow from there.
Click to expand...

Some of their painted bows are works of art. Really gorgeous stuff.
Click to expand...

Exactly, if I bought a bow from them, I do not know if I could bring myself to even go shooting with it, because then I would damage such a nice piece of art.
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Then don't buy a painted one or do they not make them unpainted?
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Even unpainted, if the craftsmanship is what I think it is, the bow is still a work of art. Functional art, but still a work of art.
 
MagnusTheBrewer - You are seriously my hero. I saw this post about someone looking for a Mongolian bow and thought it was so far fetched and ridiculous and you come in and actually have information about it!
 
The weight of the bow is not important, I can lift 240 🙂 (funny thing is that I don't look that strong, I look fat actually). I really want an Asian composite bow (Mongolian bow, or at least think thats what it's original name is). I would love to fire ammunition that's reusable!!
 
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