From: Nils Weinander <nils_at_...>
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 21:57:16 +0100
Bryan:
> >Does anyone know if wooden bows have problems in deep cold? Either >tendency to shatter (or that you have to draw shallow so that they >don't shatter), or reduced power?
The Same people of northern Scandinavia were renowned as
great archers who made powerful composite bows of two
different kinds of wood, resin and birch bark. Winter
in the mountains is bitterly cold and their bows worked.