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Article: Going LONG; Not all archers use high-tech compound bows. A few employ centuries-old weapons called longbows, which they hand-carve from staves of hickory, osage orange, white ash and other woods.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- September 24, 1997
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Most of Minnesota's approximately 70,000 bowhunters consider high-tech compound bows - with their radically designed cams and luminescent sights - a necessity.
Bob Usgaard and Matt Holland are archers of a different kind. To them, longbows hand-carved of hickory, osage orange or white ash link their present-day interests in game-taking to archery's centuries-old, and blood-red, history.
"I can't think of a more personally satisfying way to hunt than with a longbow," Usgaard said. "To me, longbows close the circle between the hunter and what hunting means."
Before Europeans settled North America, longbowmen targeted rabbits, birds . . . and ...