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Archery the Technical Side (Legends of the Longbow Series ; Volume 5)

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Before the invention of the present compound bow, before the invention of the fiberglass recurve of the 1960's, was the wooden bow. This is an outstanding book for the the true traditional archery lover. Not a how-to book but collection of essays and real studies about the performance of the weapon. It is an attempt to find the best design and materials from before the war. Hickman and his fellow archers took a scientific approach to the study of the wooden bow and arrows. This book is a collection of studies on the subject of arrows in flight, studied in wind tunnels for the first time, wooden bows, and wood species. They compared designs and its effect on performance and came up with the "perfect longbow". The author and his colleagues were the leading scientist in the Manhattan Project and applied what they discovered about arrow flight to the A- bomb casing. In this case they fused the alpha (arrows) to the omega (A-bomb) of weaponry. I have built many of the bows in the book and found them to out perform modern bows. The copy I read was signed by the author who gave the book to our mutual physician and fellow long-bow lover.