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Founding a new worldwide Primitive flightbow federation?
avcase:
When it comes to establishing official primitive world records, I feel like the event really loses it's soul without natural strings. Primitive Flight shooting has helped keep the art of making high performance natural fiber bow strings from completely dying out. It is a pain if your only focus is bows. Making a great flight arrow from natural materials is a pain too. On the other hand, I wouldn't prevent anyone from shooting a primitive bow with a synthetic string. I would simply note it and the distance would be grouped with the modern longbows or recurves. Steve Gardner shot his primitive simple composite with the modern longbows because he didn't have a natural fiber string ready, and he was very competitive. The next day, he shot the same bow with a linen string and smashed the 50-lb Primitive simple composite record.
Our current English Longbow rules are really an oddball because it does allow synthetic strings and synthetic arrow nocks.
I sympathize with those who disagree because I originally disliked the natural fiber string requirement. It made it just a little harder than it would have been otherwise. I have accumulated a pretty ridiculous stockpile of premium natural fiber string materials and am more than willing to help out anyone who wants to try shooting flight this way.
Alan
Badger:
Allen, on the broadhead event I simply cannot think of any other way to level the playing field and maintain any kind of safe limit to how far a bow is drawn. A 56# bow could compete in the 50# class simply by handicapping hs arrow weight. A properly run flight station should not miss a beat with this. The main goal is to make it more inclusive to anyone who might want to compete. The broadhead would strictly be ceremonious and be a big help in standardizing and limiting draw in a safe manner. An archer could go as heavy as he pleased with his arow so precison would not be neccessary at all. He would simply have a minimum arrow weight allowed.
Badger:
I would go along with natural string requirement in the regular flight division. I am more open in the traditional classes whose primary purpose I see is to get more involved in the sport.
avcase:
This is what we have done in the past. If someone has a 56# bow and wanted to shoot it with the 50# bows but don't want to shorten their arrows, then they would tape a small block of wood to the front of the bow to act as a draw limiter. It takes a minute, doesn't require modifications to the bow or arrows, and works pretty well.
-Alan
Badger:
Allen, the idea is to level the playing field, sometimes it will not mean the simplest solution. I don't want something that is a no brainer. We have plenty enough brains in primitive archery to deal with a simple formula. This traditional class I am proposing will have no connection or resemblance to our present organization. It is targeted more toward showcasing and comparing bows as opposed to regular flight where all aspects of the set up are of great importance.
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