I’ve had a long held love of archery, specifically one-piece recurve bows and wooden arrows. I never really went in for the more modern compound bows with carbon arrows and laser sights, on some level they just stripped away the mystique of bow shooting for me.
A few years ago on eBay I made one of those impulse buys at 2am that saw me receiving a Bear Grizzly Recurve Bow by Fed Ex delivery from Alaska a week later.
I had chosen a bow with a 60lb draw weight, which is enough to put an arrow through a 1/4″ of solid plywood from 20 paces and requires some significant stamina to shoot more than 20 times in quick succession.
Now that I live in the city I don’t get out to shoot it much anymore but in the meantime, it makes a hell of a nice wall feature.
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Silodrome was founded by Ben back in 2010, in the years since the site has grown to become a world leader in the alternative and vintage motoring sector, with millions of readers around the world and hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.
The Dobbertin HydroCar is an amphibious vehicle that took 10 years to develop with over $1 million USD invested in research, development, and construction. The HydroCar can be driven on land for extended periods thanks to its articulated sponsons (side pontoons) that can be raised or lowered. In the raised position the four wheels are…
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