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Ryano:
The longbow is most likely over built for your draw length(to long with excessive mass for your draw length) but may perform better at a longer draw. For a straight stiff handled bow for my 27" draw length I prefure around a 64" bow at the longest. Although if you recurve the tips and or make a bendy handle I can go much shorter. Ive made a few as short as 50"ntn.

gpw:
However slower , the longer longbows seem much more accurate(stable) ... and shoot a heavier , more lethal arrow..  We shoot eyebrow high LB's and seldom miss.... ::)

Kegan:
What Justin said made sense- the shorter bow IS closer to maximum draw than the longbow, which seems that it is drawn quite far under it's potential leaving it with extra mass on the limbs, which also means that it, despite not beoing as fast, is much more durable, and as gpw said, more stable- correct? Hmm, these sticks are complicated things, aren't they ;D?

DCM:
Very generally speaking longer bows have a geometric advantage, solely in terms of potential for cast, no amount of engineering can replicate in a shorter bow.  But I agree with the general concensus that lots of other factors weigh for and against long or short bows.  When you really get down to brass tacks, there ain't a nickle's worth of difference in any bows and in the grand scheme of things, assuming all well designed and crafted.  Don't get me wrong, you can make a bad bow which performs significantly below a good bow.  But all good bows are pretty darned close to each other.  I tend to prefer to judge a bows merit on things other than cast, for this reason.

Kegan:
Okay, then how about this- from what I have been reading and what not about short bows in the back issues of PA, what are eervyone's thoughts about these methods for increacing perfromance of a shortbow?

1. Stiff tips- less stack

2. Wide flat limbs(2") with narrowed handle- distribution of stress and concentraiton of bend in handle and to mid-limbs

3.highly reflexed/recurved- more bending/farther capabilities

4. D-style- more overall working limbs

I have a short locust stave that I want to sinew and turn into my next hunting bow. Around here the brush can form a virtual wall and last year my longbows kept gettign caught up while stalking. From what I gathered, a good layer of sinew and the above steps should help increase the odds of a good shootin' shortie?

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