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square shooter:
You're on to it Jude! Anytime weight is added to a lever on the "load line" end,
it slows acceleration, but on the other side of the rocker anchor, fulcrum, it slows, acceleration
too,
allowing the work end to move more; receive more of the energy, like a teeter-totter with
one rider, and the dart on the opposite seat. The only
advantage, light or heavy dart, has to be a weight below the fulcrum. This weight also
causes the bottom to go backward less, causing the top, working end, to travel farther
-- slightly longer stroke. That is, the fulcrum will move forward more than it would without
the weight.
Parnell:
Was wondering, and I don't mean to hijack, Comstock's chapter in TBB2 about Ancient European Bows talks about Atlatls using a cord wrapped around the shaft. I don't get how it was used. I'm just seeing it as stopping a release. Anyone understand this?
jamie:
Parnell its a handle with a long rope on it. The rope has a knot at the end. You wrap the knotted end around the end of the dart and throw it just like an atlatl. The handle isn't needed. I've thrown an arrow 140 yards with this method.
Parnell:
Alright, I see. From the reading it sounded like the rope was to be wrapped around the shaft. Thanks for the reply.
swamp monkey:
--- Quote from: Hillbilly on January 11, 2010, 12:42:58 pm ---I don't think anybody knows for sure. I've seen museum replicas done both with and without stones. All I know is that from what little I've experimented with them, I see absolutely no use at all for a bannerstone on an atlatl. They look cool, but actually seem to hinder the performance as far as I can tell- I can throw much farther and more accurately without one myself. Not to mention being a lot more work to make and more weight to tote around.
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I threw darts with a banner stoned atlatl and it was not pleasant for my arm. I felt like the whole atlatl was way too heavy. I am used to non-weighted atlatls so That may have something to do with it or I may not be using the right kind of dart system. Who knows what the missing link is.
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