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Texas deer hunt photos and thoughts on bow length,,,

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jeffhalfrack:
Nice talk here ,! ,,,Halfeye used to talk about short bendy handle bows a lot ,, I need to work a trade for a good short bendy  thanks jeffw

nclonghunter:
Interesting thread here....

I am very weak of knowledge in this field even though I have shot bows my whole life. From what I have read I am curious if a bow drawing 23 inches at 50# would shoot as fast as a bow drawing 28 inches at 50#. The arrow if drawn to the broadhead to insure it is getting a full draw at each shot. Aside from accuracy and the need to practice both bows should be delivering the arrows at the same speed??? How about a 15 inch arrow if the bow is tillered to 50# at 15 inches, would it deliver an arrow equally deadly as one 28 inches. What is a too short of an arrow or perhaps better asked, what is too short of a draw since the arrow could be 30 inches long and it only drawn 15 inches to 50#. I think some of the jungle bows for shooting monkeys are drawn short but use extremely long arrows.

Another interesting perspective is shooting a bow that is held directly in front of you and drawing to your face is much shorter that holding the bow to your left and drawing to your face. You can achieve an anchor with a shorter draw shooting straight in front. I think Ishi shot in that method.

Sorry if this is rambling or common knowledge

GlisGlis:
interesting thread for sure
I think i'm gonna make a bendy handle with a reduced width only on the arrow  side
kinda a minimal arrow pass with only the limited wood support to avoid breaking and twisting

bradsmith2010:
     if the bow is designed to the 23 inch draw,, it will shoot close to a bow drawn 28,,, the 28 inch bow would have to be much longer,, that would be the trade off for a few fps.. the deer would never notice,, like I said earlier,, if you wanted to match the 28 inch draw you might have to go up a bit in poundage,, but for example,, lets say you have 50# self bow that shoots a 500 grain arrow 150 fps,, it follows the string a bit,, it would be very possible to have a bow drawing 50 @ 23 inches shooting  500 grain arrow 160 fps,,, shooting harder than the 28 inch draw bow,, lots of variables,,,
    once you get shorter than 20 inch draw,, I find the arrow speed relative to draw weight goes down,, too much for me,, 
    probably not going to hit an anchor with the short draw bow,,, 

    the South American bows and arrows are probably designed to suite the materials they have there and humid conditions,,,

bradsmith2010:
https://youtu.be/2ltS10D3st0

this is me shooting a short osage bow,, at a rolled up piece of paper,, I didnt make the shot,, but you can see the short bow is plenty accurate,,
   I am shooting sitting down, cause I was getting ready for a turkey hunt where I knew I would be sitting on a bucket,, I went on that hunt,, and got a shot with that bow,, and just blew it bad,, well I gonna try agin this coming april,,,i wanted to add,, its more about the shooter,, not the bow,,

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