He becomes well versed and begins to compete in the sport.
As Istvan gets into his thirties he moves to the country,
still interested in archery and the nomadic lifestyle
begins to build bows. His first is an English longbow.
Soon he learns of a Hungarian man by the name of Lajos
Kassai, a master of horseback archery. Being a horseman
himself, Istvan becomes very excited about the sport and
begins making his first horsebow. It breaks. Though, with
time he perfects the craft and starts producing much sought
after bows.
Istvan has been
building horsebows for 8 years now and though most horse
bowyers focus primarily on archery, Istvan still considers
himself a horseman first and an archer second. He lives
in small town on the Hungarian/Slovenian border called
Kercasomor.