They are building bows right now on Forged in Fire on the History Channel. Steel takedowns

Very cool show. I never thought about forging a bow from steel

Watching the show right now.

I'll be keeping my glass laminated wood.

Me too ^^^

An all metal bow was found at the site of the Fetterman Massacre in Dec. 1866. It is shown in volume 2 of Jim Hamm's encyclopedia. bvd

My friend had a steel recurve limbed crossbow made by Horton at one time. Imagine one of those limbs snapping, and hitting you in the chops.

I watched that show last night, it was interesting.

I’ve been fascinated with this since I first read this article years ago.

Never forged any knives, but some tongs when I worked at International Harvester Ky.

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I give up lol

I felt sorry for Doug Mikada, he couldn't hit the target ten feet in front of him. One bow was definitely nocked wrong, the arrow went tail high. The judges should have practiced before the show.

Like Shinkers above, I will be keeping my wood bow.

It's very difficult to make a metal bow, either aluminum or steel, that doesn't shoot harshly with too much noise and shock to the shooter. Primarily, the harshness is caused by the limbs being quite a bit heavier than the usual limbs of wood or laminated glass. Also, the metal tends to fatigue due to the flexing and relative high stresses that the metal allows. That's why the metal bows didn't attract much of a market. I don't know about the "new" steel bows. Maybe some smart engineer designed around all the problems.

Funny.

Both guys could have done a lot worse. I'm guessing they had some help on the side with tillering and such. Just a little more help with nock placement and spine would have been nice.

They looked like they could at least shoot a bow more than what that fellow in the movie trying to draw the bow looked .

Gota keep the sponsors happy

It was fun I guess and it’s entertainment after all I enjoy that show but that episode didn’t do it for me

I would at least liked to see them tie there own string or maybe a metal riser and provide them with a working set of limbs to make it to

I personally didn’t think that was a good example of archer nor do I think a couple actors who pretend to be something there not for living are good promoters of our sport in that environment Gota keep the sponsors happy

Just my opinion

I'll bet Doug Marcaida could skin and butcher a deer in about a minute...Ha!Ha!

So the take I got on it is that Robin Hood in the new movie coming out is using a steel take-down bow? Hmmm! Can't tell by watching the trailers on you tube.

Looks like a fast shooter.

Def. a cool show I like to watch also.

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