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PK:
am I correct to say "Yes Spining Arrows to fit the Bow, Arrows need to be a specific spine weight for the bow being used.Lets say if a bow is 40 pounds at 28" the Arrow Spine or shaft would need to be around 40 pound and 28 to 30 inches in leangth, Approx,meaning that the arrow has to have enough flex in it to curve around the bow when shot.
Since the bow string is centered in the middle of the bow and most bows have an arrow rest that does not reach full center, the string when released does not follow a straight path, thus the Arrow and String are Paradoxing like a wave in motion.
When the Arrow/string reaches its release point, the Arrow is not straight and is in a
flexing motion until it reaches it's Target". I tried to explain this to a person I gave a bow and some arrows to, so I would Like to correct myself if i have given mistaken Information, Because I am still hard to understand at times,LOL, Thanks PK

1/2primitive:
Yep, sounds like you've got it.
Only one thing, when the string is released, the string doesn't travel in a wave motion, the arrow does, to curve around the handle.
    Sean

PK:

--- Quote from: 1/2primitive on January 10, 2008, 10:32:00 pm ---Yep, sounds like you've got it.
Only one thing, when the string is released, the string doesn't travel in a wave motion, the arrow does, to curve around the handle.
    Sean

--- End quote ---
Thanks I like the reasurance But, my understanding was when using fingers to draw and release the string drifts to the left  off my fingers then back to the right. which in turn makes the arrow bend around the bow? This is complicated stuff i'm dealing with but I need to take yer truths serious, since i'm getting older faster or was it younger slower.

Kegan:
The string pushes the arrow straight into the bow. The forces it to bend around the bow, but you should have it only bend so much. You want it to go pretty straight toward the target (it won't be perfecly straight, but pretty darn close). The string is simply going around your finger- it will be pulled straight by your bow.

Arrow weight simply determines how far it will shoot and how hard it will hit. It has less to do with the actual paradox.

Glenn R.:
Also , depending on the distance, the arrow does stop oscillating before reaching the target--properties of both spine and fletching achieve this. Around 1984 I watched a a series of tapes, high speed photography, put out by Easton arrow Co. of an arrow coming off the bow, both centershot and non centershot models using fingers and release aids. Yes--a bad finger release can effect the string and arrow motion. The arrow absolutely looks like a piece of limp spagetti as it comes off the bow. What was more scary is high speed photography of the modern compound--looks as though the cable would jump off the whheels as the limbs looked loose enough to fall out of the limb pockets--then snapped back to a terriffic amount of force---exactly why the TBB says a string will break after letting go and it hits brace position----believe it :)     

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