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80" White Elm Warbow Build-along
WillS:
What a beautiful bow. Well done dude.
Y'know, you're drawing that by just pulling straight back, and it looks totally comfortable and in control. If you were to step into it, with your weight forward rather than back, and roll the ol' shoulder, I think you could be shooting quite a bit heavier. The really top guys are always going on about leaning forward, and down into the bow, which pushes it away as you draw back. If you stand upright, or even lean slightly back you don't gain that advantage and you're fighting it the whole way.
I may be wrong, and you might be doing it perfectly, but when compared to Mark Stretton for instance who visibly leans forward with all his weight on the front foot, it's markedly different.
Hopefully Jeremy (yeomanbowman) will reply as he actually knows what he's talking about!
Anyway, sorry to digress. Lovely bow, great tiller and exceptional performance if it's chucking 77g arrows that far!
Marc St Louis:
Very nice. It looks like your shooting angle is pretty good. There's quite a few things that can affect how far the arrow goes though, besides the bow. Besides the physical size of the fletching too much helical can also have a big effect and center of balance also has an effect, too much FOC and the arrow will want to nosedive.
VicNova:
Is the belly fairly flat on this one?
Cameroo:
Cip, it sure was fun. I just wish my back would have held out a bit longer.
Mr. Cat, those first few shots might have looked easy, but they got pretty sketchy very quickly.
Will, I certainly have much to learn about technique. I was just doing what felt natural at the moment. I'm sure with practice the draw and release will improve.
Mark - thanks. Just FYI the arrows that I was using were a mix of oak and maple shafts, ranging from 71 grams up to 83, with fletching measuring 7.5" long, 5/8" high, and were fletched nearly straight (not helical). The shafts were 1/2 at the heads and the last 12 inches or so are tapered down to 3/8".
Victor - yes, I would say the belly is flatter than most warbows I've seen. I tillered it that way to hopefully prevent chrysalling.
Badger:
our angle and tecnique looked pretty good, if you could learn to come off that string while still drawing back just at the right moment without stopping you will add some yardage. Thats a good bow!
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