My son's Longbow

[Christiaan]

My son Josua really wanted a Longbow to compete at school level at their annual school convention.  With a little horse trading I got him this handmade bow by South African Bowyer Johan van der Merwe.  It is a Combretum 66"  42lb @ 28" .  His smile says it all.



I ordered him some carbon arrows and some custom wooden arrows.  Before you get some palpitations and dandruff about the purple fletches; they are there for a reason.  In South Africa crime is a huge problem.  Other kids do affirmative shopping and steal your arrows or claim them when you miss the target.  So we got him a color that won't get claimed or "shopped".


We are having a lot of fun with the bow in the back yard.  Yesterday I had some mixed shooting results.  Mostly spraying the arrows all over the butt.  I totally missed the target with a wooden arrow and shattered the point against the wall. :cry:
Then we lost another arrow when I nearly had a Robin Hood.  It broke the nock.

I also had one of best sessions when I shot this group at 20 yards. Pity I don't know what I did right so I couldn't repeat it.

[jbullard1]

Good looking bow and good shooting

[Ohio Joe]

Mighty fine looking bow and a real shooter as well!  I see lots of good fun with this coming you guys way!

[Pitchy]

Nice bow, happy son, having fun, that`s what its all about.  

[melsdad]

Nice looking bow, It is good to see your son interested in traditional archery.

[snake eyes]

Christian,
          Please let us know how Josua did in the  school
compitition....Beautiful bow

[Christiaan]

Snake Eyes, he is struggling a bit at the moment.  A friend from Rolla, Missouri send him Become The Arrow by Byron Ferguson.  He is reading it at the moment and got his enthusiasm back.  We have a lot to learn.

Thanks for all the kind coments.

[Christiaan]

Our back yard only allows for 20 yard shooting.  Today I took him to a place where we could shoot longer distances.  At 30 yards we were still hitting the butt.  But at 40 it was becoming very difficult.  I'll try to keep you updated Snake eyes.  In two weeks time he needs to shoot up to 50 yards.  We will see.

[Christiaan]

Christian,
          Please let us know how Josua did in the  school
competition....Beautiful bow

Snake eyes, he got a third place.  So he just made the medals and is so excited about the medal.

He missed the target 5 out of six on 50 yards and once at 40 yards.  At 20 and 30 yards he got all six on the target. So it was a 75% success rate. That was good enough for third spot.

It is great to see a young man so excited about the honorable sport of traditional archery.  

[jbullard1]

Tell Joshua congrats for me