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AndiE:
Hi

The reason for this question is that a friend of mine wants a yew warbow and it should have reserves / be safe 1-2" more than he draws because he had one and it broke.
The problem is that he is 207cm and he has a drawlength of 34".
He said that he wants a 86" bow but only if there were historic finds with this length.

Kind regrads
Andi

WillS:
Right, well there definitely aren't any warbows discovered that long.

34" is a MASSIVE draw length, and while it might be possible with a light weight target bow, I'd be really surprised if somebody could draw 34" with a heavy bow - and that's purely because of the compressive forces on the bow arm.  By the time you reach full draw on a warbow the arm holding the bow itself is being squashed so much that even 32" ends up being right back onto the collar bone. 

What draw weight does he want? 

AndiE:
Hi

He wants 120-125#@34".
Here is something I found here in the forum: http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,9817.0.html
A warbow also made for a tall archer with 35" max. drawlength and 84" total length ntn.
Steve writes there that it is a replica of one of the longest MR warbows. But was there a longer one?

Kind regards
Andi

WillS:
Tricky.  125# isn't that heavy, so there won't be a huge amount of compression on the bow arm once he gets used to the weight.  There's definitely no point in playing for risks, so I'd say you'll have to make a bow around 84" long.

I can tell you for a fact that the longest bow found on the Mary Rose was 2113mm, or 83.2" so definitely nothing around 84" long.  It depends I guess on whether his priority is having a perfectly accurate Mary Rose replica, in which case his draw length will suffer, he won't get his full potential power and may well risk over-drawing, or whether he wants a powerful, peak-performance warbow which will let you make it 84"

PatM:
I disagree that a heavy bow can't be drawn 34". How are you getting that? I only draw 27" when just shooting but had no trouble extending the draw to 33" (the length of the arrow) with an extremely heavy bow. The whole system doesn't collapse that much if you are puffing your chest up on the draw and bracing yourself through the shoulders.

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