Sunday, February 14, 2016

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.







Wednesday, February 10, 2016

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.