The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 27
g it down below the nock or groove for the string, thearcher fits the smaller one into thelower nock, and then taking themiddle of the bow in his right handpresses the lower end of the bow onthe ground in the hollow of his rightfoot, the back of the bow next to thefoot, as shown in the… … Bow-string Loop. The bow-string should be two orthree inches shorter than the bow.In a strung bow the string shouldbe about six inches from the wood atthe middle in a six-foot bow, andcorrespondingly nearer in a smallerone. When the bow has beenstrung the archer holds it upright byits middle in his…
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