Hello all, as most of you know I'm a longbow enthusiast. I'm a member of AGB (GNAS) and BLBS. Now only coming from a target POV forgive me if I'm ignorant in other forms of archery.
My main question is probably a common one, but it's only really come up in the past few months in my circles.
Recently there has been a bit of an influx of barebows at my local club, and as you know barebows have quite a wide spectrum ranging from horsebows, flatbows, stripped recuves....basically anything that doesn't fall into recurve, compound or longbow category.
What I find interesting is that barebows aren't allowed any form of sight aids, be it bands/marks on the bows or ground markers. I do have a horse bow and I've often wondered whether it could be disqualified as the leather thong holding the leather on could be considered a sight aid as it's on the belly of the bow.
What makes it even curious is that longbows are allowed ground markers/bands.
So really the question is, why? Why are longbows allowed sight aids, while barebows aren't. Logically wouldn't it make more sense to have it the other way around?
My main question is probably a common one, but it's only really come up in the past few months in my circles.
Recently there has been a bit of an influx of barebows at my local club, and as you know barebows have quite a wide spectrum ranging from horsebows, flatbows, stripped recuves....basically anything that doesn't fall into recurve, compound or longbow category.
What I find interesting is that barebows aren't allowed any form of sight aids, be it bands/marks on the bows or ground markers. I do have a horse bow and I've often wondered whether it could be disqualified as the leather thong holding the leather on could be considered a sight aid as it's on the belly of the bow.
What makes it even curious is that longbows are allowed ground markers/bands.
So really the question is, why? Why are longbows allowed sight aids, while barebows aren't. Logically wouldn't it make more sense to have it the other way around?