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DC:
I would shoot it a bunch, couple of hundred shots, before doing anything else. You may find that after shooting it in that it will be 70#@32.
markc324:
--- Quote from: willie on September 18, 2016, 02:17:56 am ---I was speaking to the fact that your tillering stands at 70#@ 30", leaving some small reductions undone to make weight at your design pull of 32".
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Haha, sorry Willie. don't know why I misunderstood it
I light sanded the limbs a bit this morning and then re-check the tiller; it was still fine, so I took her out to the local range. All the archers were thrilled to see the handcrafted bow! I was a bit embarrassed because things could still go wrong with it as it needs to be shot in, to be trained to shoot.
I put 50 arrows through her and she managed to handle that pretty well; no chryshal or splinter raised. My goal was to put 100 arrows through her, but being she is a 70lb'er and with a whole day of tillering workout yesterday, my limbs are much weaker than hers today......
there were two archers I met when I was on my way out of the range. We chatted a bit and became friends. They were generous enough to help me train the bow some more!!
here is a pick showing the tiller after 50 arrows, and surprisingly the set/string follow reduced to just 1" end of today?? it was at 1.5". I've always heard of set increasing but not reducing is this normal?
Badger:
If you weren't drawing the bow as far as on the tiller tree it could easily show less set after shooting.
markc324:
--- Quote from: Badger on September 19, 2016, 01:02:47 am --- If you weren't drawing the bow as far as on the tiller tree it could easily show less set after shooting.
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i'll look into that. I'm not sure about the two archers who shot some arrows, but for the first 50 arrows shot by myself were pulled to full 30", and I used the 30" arrows so I know if I've drawn it far enough and not over.
Del the cat:
There are two things, set and string follow.
Set is permanent, string follow recovers after a few hours.
So after a full days shooting you may easily have 1.5" next morning it will be back to 1".
There is a lot of hysteresis in the wood.
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