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duffontap:
--- Quote from: alanesq on May 26, 2007, 07:52:53 pm ---
Around 1 month ago I bought a new bow which is 130lbs at 32", it was VERY heavy for me and I didn't know if I would ever manage to fully draw it but now after only a few weeks I can shoot this bow surprisingly comfortably and it gets easier every time I use it
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Good for you! I need to build a heavier bow and give that a shot. I think I'm ready for another jump in weight.
J. D. Duff
duffontap:
Chris,
Thanks for the reply.
Chris and Jaro,
Thanks for the time and effort you are putting into this debate.
J. D. Duff
alanesq:
--- Quote from: J. D. Duff on May 26, 2007, 08:24:11 pm ---Good for you! I need to build a heavier bow and give that a shot. I think I'm ready for another jump in weight.
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My plan was that rather than spend a lot of money on lots of bows working up the weights, I would have this one as a long term project but I have been very surprised at how quickly it happens
Only a few weeks ago it seemed like a solid bar and I wasn't convinced it bent at all ;-)
BTW - I had a 100lb bow before this (I didn't go straight from the 65lb one)
I just kept shooting the odd arrow at whatever I could draw it to, mainly just to start shooting the bow in, but before long I was starting to get it to 32"
I wonder if having a bow which is too heavy for me to pull has forced me to fully learn to use the correct muscles (as my strength can't have increased that much in such a short time) ?
So maybe having a bow seemingly to heavy is the way to go ???
ChrisD:
Well Simon, I think enough heat has probably been generated to run a small galaxy, and my views are reasonably clear - so I don't plan to drag things out any longer ;)
Jaro is clearly extraordinarily well informed on thi subject. I've had an interest since the early eighties - but I don't have as physically big a 'knowledge hoard' as he does and I'm sure you of all people will understand why. Where we disagree is on how the facts fit together, and heat generated notwithstanding, its the observers who get to do the judging.
Alanesq - well done indeed- I'm jealous. Do you think you could still do it though while diseased/half starved/seasick/knackered? I have a qestion for you wich I'll post in the 'traing up' thread later - my hands are full with 5 month old baby at the mo and I type this one fingered!
All the best all.
Chris
alanesq:
--- Quote from: ChrisD on May 27, 2007, 04:36:09 am ---Do you think you could still do it though while diseased/half starved/seasick/knackered?
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My 100lb bow I have shot at my target club for 6 hours without a break and this bow now seems to me to be a very light bow,
When I first got it (around 4 months ago) it seemed very heavy
My 130lb bow is still pretty heavy to me and I would be struggling after a couple of ends but I fully intend to use this bow as my main bow eventually and so I may be able to answer this better in a few months ?
If I had been shooting heavy bows for 20 years and my life depended on it I would imagine I would have no problem pulling this bow even when knackered and ill
To modern archers a 130lb bow can sound like an idea of a mad man !
but when you start using these bows you soon start to think of them as normal and what seemed impossible soon becomes easy
I am pretty big built and so others may take longer to build up to 130lbs but medieval archers would have been people selected as being the best and would have been training since very young, it must have been truly amazing what they could do !
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