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a few good days of shooting
Ian.:
I have made a self hickory before, but at the weight we shoot its not the best. I ended up planing the belly off my bow and putting a new belly on it making it into a laminate, it became a much better shooter.
Agincourtwarb0w:
Thanks Ian! I appreciate that mate, will be out in the fields with 'er tomorrow, will see what I get!
Noel shot one of my Livery arrows for the 225 yards, but yes it was paced.
mitch:
Im new to the whole elb and elwb scene and I have some elm billets I can splice together but i was worried on weight for the bow, any suggestions? :-\
Yeomanbowman:
Jake,
There are a number of tweaks that you could do to add distance to your shooting but you and Noel look like you have all the raw material there. Firstly, you are not consistently achieving a 45 degree shot and Noel is shooting very. This is easy to sort out and you are doing the right thing videoing your technique. What I thought I was doing and what I was doing were 2 different things the first time I saw a video of myself. Secondly, by the way you are holding the string you may not be getting a clean loose. Do your arrows waggle a lot when they leave the bow? This adds serious drag.
Mike has a good point about holding at full draw but you are right actions speak louder than theory. His is an actual example. At the recent EWBS shoot a 140lb heat-treated ash bow made by Jaroslav Petrina was shot with the technique where there is a hold at full-draw. I think it’s fair to say that any bow made by him will be excellent. It’s also fair to say that the archer who shot it has a lovely clean loose and always nails his angles at full draw. His arrows will be well made excellent too. Juxtapose this distance, shot in good conditions, of 199 yards with that achieved by Al Aston at the recent Warbow Wales shoot with a non-heat treated Welsh ash bow of 223 yards. Al’s bow was 12lbs lighter and the arrows were commensurate, the Warbow Wales Mary Rose arrow being slightly heavier. The only other difference was the fact that that Al shot with a hemp string but that would not give you a performance advantage over fastflite, obviously. The results are here...
http://warbowwales.com/#/st-davids-day-shoot-2012/4561759550
I think the difference in performance is due to the hold at full-draw that wastes energy through hysteresis. This is all the more apparent in woods like ash and hickory that has high hysteresis in the humid UK. It’s not as apparent with yew and with the rolling loose you are adding a certain amount of arrow speed through body movement, maybe up to 3 fps. However, I doubt it’s going to make up for it with white woods.
It will also be kinder to your bows not to hold at full draw as this means less strain on the bow. If anyone has access to a shooting rig and a chrono then it would be interesting to see the fps difference in a 2 -3 second hold.
Keep up the good work; it's a nice vid too.
Jeremy
paulsemp:
Very impressive!! Just a word to the wise ( following up on pat's comments), be careful not to blow out your shoulder as you will not be young forever. I am only 32 and have been doing construction for 15 years and I can tell you that in a short time you not only feel it the next day but you will feel it for a week! All the old timers always told me "your back is fine till your 29" and how true it is. Also a archer from 1000 years ago that shot bows like this every day only lived to maybe to 30 years old if that. So take care of your self. Enough of me playing mommy. Once again very impressive!!! Maybe I am just jealous I can not even come close to those weights :'(
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