Bow Hunter Unlimited

It's been a while since I posted here. 
Now I finally started to practice archery again.  This time I met up with friends at archery range called Bow hunter Unlimited, Cupertino.
The weather was perfect, and I brought my new sinew backed 13th Mongolian bow, and Korean SMG bow.  I will post about this Mongolian bow in some other day.

Bow Hunter Unlimited Archery Range

Justin and Joshua are testing their bows

Justin checking the poundage of my Mongolian bow.  I think it was about #52 at 27" draw.

My two bows together.

Present from Korea

So I received a beautiful Korean bow, bamboo Songmugung.  It's 40lbs, and perfect for me right now.  I decided to practice my form more so I got this 40lbs bow to do so.
This bow is absolutely beautiful, and the fit and finish is much better than my 30lbs Kaya KTB.
I ordered it to wrap with natural birch bark sheet.  Although it will crack easily on modern laminated material, I just love the natural staff on my bow.

I love this bow.

Yuan dynasty, Mongolian bow

So I got this bow from Justin Ma, who is an owner of online site, www.cinnarbarbow.com.  I wanted to try something else then Korean bows so I chose this bow.  This is non contact siyah bow, which is opposite of Korean bows(contacted siyah bows).
It's about 64# at 32" draw, and my draw is about 30.5", so it's about 50# at my draw length.
It draws very smooth, it shoots very nice.  I really like this bow.
However, due to lack of practicing time, and busy with my life, I decided to sell this bow to someone who can enjoy shooting it.  Simply the bow is too heavy for me.
I figured that with current practicing time, which is about 1 hour every 3 month....I did not see myself shooting this bow soon.

A few shots of my equipment at Redwood bowmen club

Manchu bow

I tried to meet with Justin when he comes to Redwood bowmen club.  I learn a lot from him, and he is such a nice guy who help out fellows like me, a newbie.
This time he brought a Manchu bow.
You can get good info about Manchu bow from here
The bow Justin brought is made by Jia Zhi Wei.  His web site is http://www.manchubows.com/

The bow is very big, yet it draws very smooth.  I tried a #55 bow, and it was so smooth!  The maximum draw length of the bow is 36".

Custom ordered Korean quiver

I found a great artist, Yeochan Yun, who lives in Korea.  The official website is http://www.archers.co.kr 
His work is excellent.  I ordered a specific design, and he did great job.

The bow is SongMuGung from Korea.  It's about 50# 31"  It's little heavy for me right now, but I will keep practice with it.  It's a very fast bow.  I highly recommend this bow to anyone who is interested in fast Asian traditional bows.

Modding my sugakkji

After I shot many arrows, I noticed my ring got very dirty due to the light color.  So I decided to use a Japanese technique called "shosugiban", which is burning wood technique.  It turned out pretty good.