* Crysals or frets have been the bane of nearly all the old English archers.Reference is made to this weakness in The Badminton Library of Sports, ArcheryVolume, page 295. We also see comments by Horace Ford in his Archery—Theoryand Practice, American Edition, pages 25-32. Ascham made comment at somelength as early as 1545 which may be found in his Toxophilus, 1869 Edition,Book 2, pages 120 and 121.
and others never tried to correct this sorry design is a mostdifficult question to answer; perhaps it was because mankindis very slow at living down traditions.
In order to create a bow design that would have greaterefficiency, it was found necessary to increase the area of Zone(A) and decrease that of Zone (B). The rectangular cross sec-tion made this correction (Fig. 8). In this design Zone (iA1)
