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Measuring Draw Length
bow-toxo:
--- Quote from: Cameroo on October 14, 2010, 12:38:45 am ---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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If you wish to use the modern corner of the mouth anchor point, which has no place in warbow shooting or in this forum, you might as well also use the arbitrary 28 inch arrow length that goes with it. Also, you may find your draw length shorter when drawing a strong bow than what you measured without tension.
Erik
sailordad:
erik, why woulndt the modern corner of the mouth anchor point have any place in this forum?
when i first got into trad archery(after a 30 yr absence)i had no idea of my draw length
i took and arrow and marked it every inch and did precisley what cameroo stated
i draw empty handed(no bow) just the arrow and looked to see what the arrow should at the web of my hand
i also anchor at the mouth or a tad in front of it
but i dont like a 28" arrow,i like mine at 30"
i dont see why this wouldnt have a place here
bow-toxo:
--- Quote from: sailordad on October 14, 2010, 08:42:12 pm ---erik, why woulndt the modern corner of the mouth anchor point have any place in this forum?
when i first got into trad archery(after a 30 yr absence)i had no idea of my draw length
i took and arrow and marked it every inch and did precisley what cameroo stated
i draw empty handed(no bow) just the arrow and looked to see what the arrow should at the web of my hand
i also anchor at the mouth or a tad in front of it
but i dont like a 28" arrow,i like mine at 30"
i dont see why this wouldnt have a place here
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You must have really long arms.The forum is a “Primitive Archery’ forum. Early Englishmen drew to the breast or drew to the ear until the nineteenth century Victorian archery of an afternoon gentlemen’s social event changed the rules to include the corner-of-the-mouth anchor point as well as the tiller of longbows. I don’t believe that the Victorian period is considered “primitive”.
It is the “English Longbow Society” that does the Victorian thing.
Erik
NTD:
I think you are too caught up in labels there Eric. VERY few people on here shoot primitive bows by your standards. And even fewer shoot in a period accurate way. Primitive Archer forum and Magazine is a Big Tent. I'm not a primitive archer but I shoot and make bows made from wood and PA welcomes me. That's good enough for me ;D
JW_Halverson:
--- Quote from: bow-toxo on October 14, 2010, 02:03:43 pm ---
If you wish to use the modern corner of the mouth anchor point, which has no place in warbow shooting or in this forum, you might as well also use the arbitrary 28 inch arrow length that goes with it. Erik
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Apparently I have been here under false premises. I am sorry for besmirching the very honor of this worthy society of Primitive Archery by my ignorance and poor form. I shall go away and never stain the website with my corner-of-the-mouth anchor point. For that matter, I shall endeavor to replace all my modern cloth garments with half dressed skins, dig the modern fillings from my teeth, eschew modern medicine and dentistry altogether and do away with the use of the unclean computer by which I have been posting my heathen and heretical rantings. Goodbye all, I shall miss you all.
Well, most of you anyway. >:D
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