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Measuring Draw Length
Dean Marlow:
I had a fellow stop in last night wanting an Osage Selfbow and I measured his draw length and it was a 31". The longest arms I have ever measured on a person. I measure from the chest straight out to the tips of his fingers for draw length. Is this the right way to measure? If that is O.K. how long of a bow should I go with. It will be 1-1/2" wide and 50 to 55 pounds on the draw weight. Dean
half eye:
Dean,
I do it the same way using a yard stick in the center of the chest. If you want this fella to get a lot of use of the bow and he's going into a small blind or something, think I'd go with a full 72" on that stick.....not because it couldn't be shorter but just for the "abuse" factor that goes with somebody's first stick bow............JMO
Oh ya, if he hasn't shot a stick before I dont believe he's gonna get the whole 31" at draw ....but You may want to tiller it out that far anyway......another "just in case" thing to do.
rich
HoBow:
I measure from the chest to the base of the thumb. For 31"- I would go at least 62 with a D bow. Add handle length for a non bending handle.
bow-toxo:
--- Quote from: Dean Marlow on October 06, 2010, 08:43:15 am ---I had a fellow stop in last night wanting an Osage Selfbow and I measured his draw length and it was a 31". The longest arms I have ever measured on a person. I measure from the chest straight out to the tips of his fingers for draw length. Is this the right way to measure? If that is O.K. how long of a bow should I go with. It will be 1-1/2" wide and 50 to 55 pounds on the draw weight. Dean
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It depends altogether how far he intends to draw the arrow, whether to the Ford "corner of the mouth" or to the ear or beyond as mediaeval archers or modern warbow shooters do. Those are different length arrows.
Erik
Cameroo:
I had my draw length measured by pulling back an arrow to anchor that was marked every inch. I got thinking about how to measure this on other people without a bow and arrow, so I took a cloth measuring tape and just measured from the web of my bow hand, to my anchor point (corner of mouth). As you would probably guess, it was the same distance as when I measured with the bow and arrow (minus the thickness of the bow's handle). I would think if you're going to use a tape measure, why not measure from the palm of the bowhand to the intended anchor point? Can't get much more accurate than that!
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