What is a hunting bow?
A. This is a vague term for any traditional bow with a heavy draw (usually 50 lbs or more) which is based on a pattern which was common after the days of military archery. In the UK, the term is usually used to refer to a recurve bow with a carved handle, sight window, and arrow shelf (see below), patterned after a design that was common in the Victorian era. These bows are now often made with modern materials (perhaps including glassfibre or carbon fibre), and shoot more like a modern olympic recurve than a longbow. However, practioners usually shoot them without sights, so they probably still qualify as `traditional’. The `Forrester’ from Keith Gascoigne Archery is about as modern as a traditional bow can get.
