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Mark Stretton 200lb Guinness World Record blog
mikekeswick:
All this 'we won't know until somebody else can shoot the same weight' etc...is all a load of cobblers. Why not just try it with a lighter bow? A group of shooters so you aren't getting just one answer?
I'll say it again - No other flight shooters use this method. A bow held at full draw loses weight. A bow drawn quickly GAINS weight. If we have two bows of the same physical weight and one draws 100# and one draws 110# which is the best bow (all other things being equal)?
That's all i'm saying and they are facts. If those statements don't say something to you about the 'rolling loose' then I give up.
OTDEAN:
I think guys in the EWBS are wrapped in their own dogma like the rolling loose and nothing will change their minds that it does what they say it does for range, I reckon its just dogma to make it look more sexy.
I couldn't imagine fellas during the War of the Roses in a bow line at Towton shooting bows 100lbs plus prancing around like nancy's doing some rolling dance to get some extra yardage on range. The opposite forces would probably have pissed tha sens laughing.
Lucasade:
I can't imagine you could get off 12 arrows a minute if you're spending 4 seconds each shot waving the bow around at basically full draw either - that's 48 seconds!
WillS:
It's like a brick wall in here.
Nobody seems to have got the basic idea that this WASN'T used during war. This is a completely modern method designed by modern archers using 170lb bows.
Nobody is claiming it was used in the middle ages, nobody is claiming it helps you shoot heavier bows and nobody is claiming it's faster.
It was the only method used to break world records. That's all anybody knows.
They weren't shooting to break records in the middle ages. They didn't need to shoot beyond about 200 yards, whereas with the same equipment the rolling loose is being used to break 300 yards.
By the way Mike, it has been tested with a lighter bow. Michael Heinz made a video testing it. The rolling loose added 50 feet when using a 22lb bow, compared to a static release. But like I said, once the video came out all the guys clamouring that the rolling loose is rubbish went quiet and stopped talking about it.
Lucasade:
I was being facetious there sorry.
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