Magyar Sport Horse Bow Review

Excellent quality & smooth draw

Solid bow, minimal twist, very little hand shock, no sound and very well made. Grip is a bit narrow for my hands and I had to tape up a palm swell to grip it properly to perform Kathra correctly. Bow is a bit heavy but performs very well. FYI Kassai updated the Magyar in 2002 and refined it, it's now called the Magyar Sport Raven. This is that Raven refinement bow.

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Beautiful bow and a pleasure to shoot

My son purchased this bow for me as an early Father's day gift. It has quickly becoming my favorite bow. The bow was well packaged and includes a bow sock which was a nice surprise. I have the 50# model and shoot with 3 finger draw. Which at my draw length is probably around 45#. This bow is extremely quite and if string puffs were added would be almost silent. The bow is beautiful… read more and well worth the price.

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I would buy this again

I just received this bow as an early Fathers Day gift from my son and I absolutely love it. I have shot longbow and recurve for years and wanted to try something new. this bow is beautiful straight out of the box. it comes with a sock for storage which was a nice surprise. The bow is easily strung up using the step through method, and draws smother than my 60" longbow. I am planning… read more on learning the traditional Mediterranean style thumb release, however this bow shoots like a dream with the three finger style as well.

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Great bow!

It is definitely a great bow. I just started about a year ago and this bow works perfect for me. With practice I became better with it but at first it was hard getting used to because I am used to recurve bows with a shelf. Fun to shoot and gets lots of compliments from others while at the range about its design and craftsmanship. I am just over 6ft tall and the size of the bow… read more is perfect and easy to carry. *Side note, My friends I go shooting with get jealous about all the compliments I get at the range while their bows go unnoticed.

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Work of art

This bow is gorgeous. I had been hunting for a high quality traditional recurve that I could fire using the thumb release, and this bow is perfect. Prior to this bow I was using a cheap 40# Chinese-made horse bow for practice, and when I got this Kassai I could not believe the improvements. Even though my Magyar Sport is rated at 47#, the draw and release are much easier than on… read more my old 40#. Besides that, after you've figured out the thumb release, the bow is dead accurate (I have never used western release, so can't speak to that). I love it, and consider myself fortunate to have found it.

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I will recommend this to a friend.

I purchased this bow as a new off hand shooter.I was amazed at how easy it was for me to pick up this new way of shooting . As my friends that shoot off hand told me it would take me some time to get use to. The smooth draw and release was amazing. The Leather work on the bow is seamless and precise. With in a few hours i was grouping on target. The bows design is exotic yet powerful.… read more My father saw the bow for the first time two days after i bought it, and was amazed at the exotic look and power it had. Every one that looks at this Magyar bow asks me what kind of bow is that and were did i get it. I simply say its a blast from the past. And 3Rivers is one of the pleases to get one. I have been surching for a dealer in the states for over three monthes, trying to deside on where i would purches from. 3Rivers is the plase fore sure. It also being a Lajos Kassai bow make it well worth it. Lajos Kassai is a hungarian archer/horse archer and boyer. He is the guy that put 12 arrows on target in 18 seconds from horse back. The product has a reputable name to back the quality of the bow and craftsmanship. This bow is amazing.

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An object of functional beauty.

I have wanted one of these bows for a very long time and was happy to find it at 3Rivers, as getting them directly from Hungary is difficult and expensive. It is a strikingly beautiful bow, with the deep heritage of Hungarian horseman. Incredibly smooth, and accurate, though shooting "off hand" is a new challenge which I am enjoying very much.

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Magyar Sport

The Magyar sport is the prototype horse bow of Mr.Kassai Lajos according to Mr. Edwin Gilbert. It is, again according to Mr. Gilbert, the one that Mr. Kassai uses when putting on a demonstration of horse archery. I have had three bows by Mr. Kassai. Two of them Magyar Sports of different draw weights, and the third is, once more according to Mr. Gilbert, an improvement on the Magyar… read more Sport named the Raven, which is essentially the same bow but a bit broader in the limbs. I have been using these bows exclusively since 2004 and love the way they handle (I no longer need a brace on my left forearm because I hardly ever get slapped by the string). One reviewer stated that these bows are inaccurate. I beg to differ with that statement. The fact that you shoot off of your knuckle [no arrow rest or cut out in the handle] does not help with archer's paradox at all, and makes them a bit more difficult to master. But once you learn the technique you'll be surprised at how accurate these bows really are! I can consistantly group a flight of six arrows in a four inch circle @ 20 yards using the gap shooting method and a five inch circle A 28 30 yards. Of course as I stated earlier, it takes time, patience and practice, practice, pratice, because, for me at least, when I started it was a whole new experience.

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Great bows

I own several horse bows including the models sold at 3Rivers. I find them very accurate and have out shot bowmen with high end compounds at 40 yards, including balloons blowing along the ground. The key is practice, well matched arrows (the bows are spine sensitive) and smooth release.

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Great product

This is really a great bow.

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