Ram (sheep) horn bow shooting demo

yokhua · Post by **yokhua** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 9:17 am

This bow is made from ram horns, a 13th century Mongolian bow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udr1YOVtzQc

jack farrell · Post by **jack farrell** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 3:41 am

Yokhua; Nice bow. What kind of ram's horns? Domestic? Do you have some comments about the quality of sheep horn?

yokhua · Post by **yokhua** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 7:56 am

Jack, The ram horns I got are from Tibet 7 years ago.. I saw some one have it in a night market here.. So ! I ask him about and then bought all 20 pieces of ram horns from him..

The color of horns is white, and the size of its cross section is like a man's fist..

It is much smaller then Argali horn.. I guess it should be domestic..

The sheep horn is much softer and pliable then water buffalo horn.. I say maybe 10 Lb's less then a bow making from water buffalo horns..

But I kind of like it because it is very flexible..

jkekoni · Post by **jkekoni** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:37 am

Was the horn exessively curvy. I think sheep horn is (are there breeds without this ?).

Are you sure the horn was not from Ibex? They are native of the region and historical bow source. They are also endanged...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibex

yokhua · Post by **yokhua** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 9:32 am

It is made from ram horns..

link is here : http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set= ... 6&ENGINE=1

jietian · Post by **jietian** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 1:06 am

nice bow and shooting

jkekoni · Post by **jkekoni** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 11:24 am

That does looks like ram horn.

I would love to hear how the horn was processed...

The bow does look like Qing one on my untrained eye...

Anyhow absolutely great work.