Kviljo Buemakeri

30/04/2026

A 73 pound turkish bow, shooting 621 meters

08/10/2025

Chinese "Chu-ko-nu", or repeating crossbow. This one was made in 2009. It was made according to the drawings in Ralph Payne Gallweys book "The crossbow" from 1903.

Ps. As it does not lock into full draw, it is per definition not a crossbow, and therefore legal.

It is time for it to get a new home. Interested? Send me a message. I'm looking for 1600 €

19/08/2025

An exploding arrow... This is the reason for the "tabla" on the Turkish siper 😄

31/07/2025

This 35 # glass fiber laminated bow (left) shot 390 meters today, with a splitcane arrow with paper fletches. _Kind of_ a new world record in the Modern asiatic class 🥳

08/06/2025

31/05/2025

492 meters in the 50-pound limited category at the Conquest Cup in Istanbul last Wednesday! Coincidentally I shot 492 meters too when practising for the event, but with a different arrow. Good fun! Two arrows reaching this distance ought to indicate that 500 is possible too, even below 50 pounds! Something for next year 😄🏹

23/05/2025

An Ottoman flight bow of 88 pounds at 27 inches. It is covered with birch bark and leather, in the traditional pattern for flight bows of the early 1700s.

23/04/2025

This little stick flew 595 meters from a 70 pound Turkish glass laminated bow. The arrow tolerated it once, but not twice.

25/03/2025

A couple hundred years ago, this pine stick was being shot somewhere in the Ottoman empire. Who knows how far it went, but it likely passed the 900 gez (594 meters) required for the title of "Kemankeş"

27/02/2025

21/12/2024

Is anyone able to interpret this? It's likely either the date or the bowyers name, on a "sinirsek" Turkish flight bow. The bow is probably somewhat late, perhaps 1750-1850, but I do believe this says the exact year.