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80" White Elm Warbow Build-along
Marc St Louis:
Why do you have the front end of the shaft bigger than the tail? That would tend to make it front heavy. Your 77 gram arrow comes out to roughly 1050 grains, which is pretty well 10 GPP.
Yeomanbowman:
--- Quote from: Yeomanbowman on May 14, 2014, 06:16:57 pm ---Yes a very good tiller indeed. I'd be very surprised if the bow shot a standard arrow (6" x 3'4" fletches and 52g) any more than a furlong or 220 yards, not in the humid UK at least. Not a criticism of the bowyery but based upon experience of heavy ash bows. Please post the how you get on with it.
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Sorry, I did read the draw weight and then forgot later on in the thread and read the 80 as the draw weight rather than inches. Hence the estimate.
The technique looks good to me given that you are easily master of your bow. The style Will mentions helps you draw a higher weight as you can use more of the body.
Cameroo:
Thanks Steve, I appreciate your input. I'm still relatively new to warbow shooting so I don't really know what constitutes a "good bow". I know from watching back the video that my release needs some improvement. I think part of my problem is that I will draw the shaft back, and then hesitate for a split second as I glance over to the point to make sure that I've reached full draw (and in the meantime I'll let off half an inch! ::) ). That's something I'll have to work on.
--- Quote from: Marc St Louis on June 02, 2014, 04:20:36 pm ---Why do you have the front end of the shaft bigger than the tail? That would tend to make it front heavy. Your 77 gram arrow comes out to roughly 1050 grains, which is pretty well 10 GPP.
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In my very limited experience with warbow shoots, I was getting better cast from shafts with that profile, as compared to barrel tapered shafts (haven't tried any untapered shafts yet). Don't ask me why they seem to fly better, because I don't have a scientific explanation, but the difference was apparent. Also, I already had some field points that measured 1/2" at the shoulders, and I just used what I had on hand. But I do believe that this is a common design amongst EWB shooters.
The taper allows a lighter shaft without really affecting the spine. Although I have a feeling that these arrows are spined too heavy for this bow anyway... sometime I would like to shoot some video to see if I can capture the flight of the shaft right out of the bow.
adb:
A very impressive bow indeed, and I felt like a proud papa that Cam could shoot it. I can shoot 100# no problem, but add that extra 15# and I hit a brick wall.
adb:
--- Quote from: Marc St Louis on June 02, 2014, 04:20:36 pm ---Why do you have the front end of the shaft bigger than the tail? That would tend to make it front heavy. Your 77 gram arrow comes out to roughly 1050 grains, which is pretty well 10 GPP.
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Because the arrows we're shooting are made to EWBS and CWBS specs. That particular arrow is over weight for a livery arrow 63g), but it's made to meet the specs for this type of shooting. If you're interested, go to either of their websites and check the details for yourself. And yes, they're front heavy... on purpose.
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