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The Magyar bow

"A sagittis hungarorum libera nos Domine!"

Although traditional recurve bows may look quite the same to the unskilled eye, there are differences, some of which are due to engineering advancements of hundreds of years. The Magyar recurve bow is unique considering the materials and the technique used to make the parts and assemble the bow itself.

Traditional Magyar (Hungarian) horseback archery survived even the Russian occupation and the communist oppression and is still being practiced in Hungary

Ancient Magyars could shoot 5-6 arrows/10 sec from a mount with high precision, making them a formidable foe to any other army.

Materials used

The modern day replicas are basically made of durable plastic covered with leather. This ensures lightweight, long-lasting and cost-effective bows that resemble the original to the slightest detail so you cannot distinguish a plastic one from a natural one. There are, however, some traditional recurve bows made exactly to the standards of ancient archer nations. These bows are made of fish bones, bull horns, cattle bones and tendons and, of course, fine wood. The parts are attached by natural adhesives such as collagens extracted from fish or cattle. The result is a more expensive, less durable but naturally much more stylish bow than a plastic one.

Typical shape of a Magyar (Hungarian) recurve bow

It is interesting to note that the huge and awkward longbows used in Europe during the medieval era were in all respect inferior to the portable, precise and strong recurve bows of Asia, especially considering that the bows used by nomadic people could be used by children too, as opposed to western bows.

Technology

The backbone of the traditional recurve bow is a single piece of wood bent to perfection so that it will fire the arrows with the highest possible speed at the same time requiring the slightest effort to draw.

Different Hungarian bow types

Hungarian bow types		Product Name	Manufacturer
		Traditional Hungarian recurve bow	Toth Zoltan
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		Horn Decorated Traditional Hungarian recurve bow	Grozer Csaba
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		Hungarian recurve bow of the middle ages	Grozer Csaba
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		Leder decorated Traditional Hungarian recurve bow	Toth Zoltan
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		Hungarian Schytian /Szittya/ recurve bow	Grozer Csaba
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		Horn Decorated Traditional Hungarian "C"TYPE recurve bow	Grozer Csaba
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		Traditional Hungarian recurve bow	Grozer Csaba
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		Traditional Hungarian recurve bow	Toth Zoltan
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