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Will Hickory make a good heavy bow
Ian.:
Hi rudderbows
Thanks for the advise this bow ended up 140lb @ 32 very little set surprisingly, and shot very fast I was at a shoot with the finsbury archers and was able to strait shoot most of the roving target,
But the hickory almost failed, it has a vertical crack mid limb so this weekend I'm going to make another and repair this one,
On a side note with your heavy bows do you find 1/4 hickory cracks often in this way, how do you have the hickory on the back of your bows.
rudderbows:
Jaro, ADB, rarely do I post here when no one says something crass to me. It was one of my customers in England. Believe whatever you want.
rudderbows:
Ian, I use a considerable amount of hickory and found that not all hickory is created equal. For instance I can pick up a piece that has thick, dense growth rings and is seems to take the punishment better than the thinner rings. Also, I have felt some hickory wood that is more spongy and it seems to need to be thicker to achieve the same draw weights.The spongy stuff takes allot more string follow. I keep wondering if these trees had bad nutritian or bad growing conditions or something adverse. The spongy stuiff feels light weighted in hand. On the heavy bows I select thick growth rings and heavier weighted wood and have not had troubles with cracks or chrysals. I do see allot more string follow on the hickory bows than I do the bamboo or hickory backed ipe and osage. The Ipe really makes a good bow with a hickory backing. If I can ever help you please let me know.
Hi rudderbows
Thanks for the advise this bow ended up 140lb @ 32 very little set surprisingly, and shot very fast I was at a shoot with the finsbury archers and was able to strait shoot most of the roving target,
But the hickory almost failed, it has a vertical crack mid limb so this weekend I'm going to make another and repair this one,
On a side note with your heavy bows do you find 1/4 hickory cracks often in this way, how do you have the hickory on the back of your bows.
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Jaro:
In the light of improbability of the feat in question, you should have expected to be called upon backing it up. Your hesitancy to do so over non existent pretext does not add any credibility to your claim.
1100 grains is 71 grams , in other words weight of the EWS livery arrow. A minute look at Batsford 2009 shows that there is only 5 people actually shooting over 240 yards with this arrow weight - with best results being around 260.
Now you waltz in and expect us, who have the actuall experience of making and shooting these bows to believe that somebody nearly doubled that?
I asked you simple question, which you could have expected to be asked and you play "oh I m mr. civil and wont talk to you, because you are being crass" ?
My patience and civility does not extend to liars.
J.
Yewboy:
Hi Rudderbows
The people you are referring to as the ones who shot these massive distances are Magen Klomp from Fairbow and also James Farrar from Fairbow UK, however if they had told you these distances then they have mislead you. I know they arte good customers of yours and that they buy a whole load of Hickory and Osage from you but please take these outlandish distances as just pure fantasy. Here are the actuall results of both Magen and James:
QTR Pound Arrow 1750 grains
Klomp Magen 185 yds Stratton 144# @ 32" 166# @ 35" Italian self yew
Farrar James 205 yds with a Klomp 160# @ 32" Laminate - single ring hickory/Argentinian osage
EWBS Livery Arrow 965 grains
Klomp Magen 202yds Stratton 144# @ 32" 166# @ 35" Italian self yew
Farrar James 215yds Klomp 160# @ 32" Laminate - single ring hickory/Argentinian osage
BLBS STD Arrow 802 grains
Farrar James 198yds Klomp 160# @ 32" Laminate - single ring hickory/Argentinian osage
So as you can see the claim of 439yds with an 1100 grain arrow is vastly exaggerated.
Just thought you would like some clarification on this.
Cheers
Steve
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