anyone use the Attila Archery synthian?

basilisk120 wrote:

I'm looking at getting a new horse bow to learn thumb ring archery. On the shortlist of bows is the Synthian bow http://attilasarchery.com/category/scythian-bow/

Anyone familiar with that bow? It looks realy nice and efficient. I have the u-finish bow and love it.

The other two bows on the list are the Grozer Synthian or the grozer assyrian

I have the U-finish bow at 50#@30" and it has handshock with relatively heavy arrows. Maybe the nock point is too high so it's unbalanced?

I don't have that Scythian bow but I have a Nomad KTB from koreanbow.com that is very fast and can be drawn to 33" (53" version, something like 50.5" tip to tip strung).

Would definitely recommend. The 48" version is tiny, extremely fast and can be drawn to 31". A SMG horn/carbon bow would be even better. You can ask them about it. It would have horn in the belly and be backed with birch bark.

Not sure about their Taeguk bow...

I have heard a lot of good things aboutthe those SMG bows recently. The are interesting not sure if they have a shelf. I would like a bow without a shelf because the group I shoot with has a trad division for bows without shelfs.

pcoutin wrote:

have the U-finish bow at 50#@30" and it has handshock with relatively heavy arrows. Maybe the nock point is too high so it's unbalanced?.

That might be. Mine seems to be fine with heavier arrows but I was shooting warbows before this so it might just seem really smooth in comparison.

No shelves on SMG bows

basilisk120 wrote:

I have heard a lot of good things aboutthe those SMG bows recently. The are interesting not sure if they have a shelf. I would like a bow without a shelf because the group I shoot with has a trad division for bows without shelfs.

hahaha that would be sacrilege
As far as I know, none of them do. The hornbow definitely doesn't. The only korean-ish bow I've known to have a cut in arrow shelf is the Kaya Khan.

http://www.koreanarchery.org/punbb/view ... id=600&p=3

I haven't had any issues stringing my korean style bow with the same kind of tips with a step through method. Just gotta make sure the loop is in the nocks while slowly letting go of the bow.

Thanks for the reply. For some reason I kept picturing the Korean bows with a large round grip on them. I finally looked closer and I see they are more oval shaped. Looks much better than what I was picturing. Not sure where I got that idea from.