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old style with modern bow????

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cardincris
Hi to everybody!
I'm new in this forum so forgive me for this "silly" question but...

would be possible to train oneself with the thumb ring draw with a modern compound bow?
a friend of mine wants to sell his "left handed" compound bow, a Mission CRAZE, for a new one, he's asking 150 ? maybe less.

If I'd get a thumb ring can I practice the asian draw?

I'd like to buy a Crimean Tartar biocomposite bow from Grozer but at the moment I'm broke.

Thanks

Cris
Amarutu
From my (far from expert) experience, that does not work. You can draw the string with the thumb and shoot a lefthand bow righthanded, but you can not use old techniques apart from the grip on the bowstring, and there is a lot more, than locking the bowstring with the thumb. Depending on your preference, there are techniques twisting the bowhandle and/or the bowstring which would derail the calbes on the cams of a compoundbow with ease. Using them would be dangerous and therefore stupid. BUT if you want to shoot a compoundbow and only lock the string with a thumbgrip, you can do so. A friend of mine does so with an old oneida eagle bow.
KenH
Yeah... I agree with amarutu -- I don't think thumb ring and compound bow go together. Get a cheap kiddy solid fiberglass bow without an arrow pass window if you want a thumb ring training bow...
cardincris
Thanks for the reply and the advices, well...
I thought it was worthwhile a try for the price,
even if it is a left handed bow and I am a right handed...
than it's quite short (I love the small ones) the draw and the poundage is regulable so it would have been possible growing up with it...
but... as everybody is "against" my idea... :roll:
sissara
Please count me as a person who against the idea. Derailed compound bow is dangerous and could be expensive.
:(