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  2. Bowhunting - Wikipedia

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    Bowhunter in Utah. Bowhunting (or bow hunting) is the practice of hunting game animals by archery. Many indigenous peoples have employed the technique as their primary hunting method for thousands of years, and it has survived into contemporary use for sport and hunting.

  3. Bow shape - Wikipedia

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    Bow shape. A simple left-handed recurve bow, to be held in the right hand. It is in one piece, with flat limbs made of laminated fiberglass, and a sculpted handle. In archery, the shape of the bow is usually taken to be the view from the side. It is the product of the complex relationship of material stresses, designed by a bowyer.

  4. Flatbow - Wikipedia

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    Flatbow. A flatbow is a bow with non- recurved, flat, relatively wide limbs that are approximately rectangular in cross-section. Because the limbs are relatively wide, flatbows will usually narrow and become deeper at the handle, with a rounded, non-bending handle for easier grip. This design differs from that of a longbow, which has rounded ...

  5. History of archery - Wikipedia

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    Archery is the national sport of the Kingdom of Bhutan. [91] From the 1920s, professional engineers took an interest in archery, previously the exclusive field of traditional craft experts. [92] They led the commercial development of new forms of bow including the modern recurve and compound bow.

  6. Native American weaponry - Wikipedia

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    The bow is made of wood (attempts have been made at bone, but the bone has a low tensile strength and snaps easily when pressure is applied to the ends, "authentic bows" made of bone is a fairly common scam) string is made from either the dried, twisted, strung out, and twisted again intestines of animals, bundled horse hair, fibers from nettle ...

  7. Bowing - Wikipedia

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    Bowing. Different degrees of bowing and prostration, here drawn from Eastern Orthodox religious liturgical use. Bowing (also called stooping) is the act of lowering the torso and head as a social gesture in direction to another person or symbol. It is most prominent in Asian cultures but it is also typical of nobility and aristocracy in many ...

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