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Heavy Turkish style bows
PatM:
Even if you don't want to believe the Sultan's record there are still scores of 700-800 plus yard shots on record.
Badger:
Admittedly I am not much a student on the history of thse bows. Adam is getting speeds up to about 357 fps. With an ideal modern arrow I believe this might go about 800 yards or less. I just find it hard to believe that using a natural wooden arrow with feather fletching traveling much over about 500 yards. The old forgewood shafts previously used did record some good distances in the middle of the last century. If you know of any good sites I can visit to read up on this I would be happy to visit them.
Shooting a 50# all wood bow about the lightest arrow I can shoot that will still maintain suffcient stiffness is around 170 grains. Shooting 150# bow would require additional mass in the arrow to keep it stiff enough, maybe 300 grains minimum. The heavier bows do have an advantage in that the momentum of the heavier arrows is better able to overcome the drag which will remain fairly constant. My guess is that shooting under modern rules using wood arrows we will never see the turkish bows hit 600 yards. Unless they allready have in which case I would be dead wrong.
Badger:
I went back and checked and see that Don Brown did shoot an unlimited bow 619 yards with a wood arrow so maybe 700 yards would be a better milestone.
PatM:
Wooden footbows have hit over 800 yards with wooden arrows.
mikekeswick:
What we need is to shoot some perfect arrows from a heavy weight maximised Turkish flight bow - then we will know >:D
Badger - have you read Adam's book? There is some very good stuff in there.
I am certainly no expert but I think parchment may have been used for the fletchings.
My best flying arrows have been shaped to the same proportional dimensions as some actual Turkish flight arrows....but the skill to make a good small fletch from parchment is still eluding me...big numb fingers!
I wish I had more time to devote to making flight bows.
I would be happy to send my heavy flight bow to someone to be shot/tested at the salt flats. At least that is if it survives to full draw!
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