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Hazel longbow, 100# @ 28"

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FilipT:
To answer all your questions:

1. Loops are completely intact. They don't get larger and look the same as in pictures above.
2. Spectra is not fake, it was bought from legit seller. Brand is Power Pro, 300 yards.
3. Bow has now about 20 mm of reflex and it's 35 mm wide. I accidentally wrote that is 40 mm wide in the first post. Sorry for that. It was actually 38 mm and I shaved sides by 3 mm in order to get it a little bit lighter. It's 28 mm thick and 70" nock to nock.
No way that this is the monster now!
4. I will measure again draw weight again as I got new scale so I will write what it says.
5. Adjustment ring was made on lathe machine and has chamfers so it wouldn't cut the string.
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Anyways, I am still perplexed about this.

JNystrom:
I've used power pro and stopped using it because of that insane stretch. I think the fishing braid makers lie about the true strength of the fibre. You could do a strength test for it, if you are interested in.
Spiderwire has proven a lot better when it comes to fishing braid, zero strech with that one.

WillS:
If it's a good piece of hazel (they can vary dramatically) then at 38mm (or 35mm even - width makes very little difference to weight at this stage) and 28mm thick you're still looking at potentially 140lb or so - especially with some reflex.  At this stage the bow hasn't been drawn more than a few inches, so it's still completely fresh. 

I've got a bow in the workshop at the moment which is exactly 40mm wide and 29mm thick and it was at least 140lb last time I checked, and has no reflex.

WillS:
Oh, and it's 76" ntn.  Yours is 70" so I'd say you're at least looking at 145lb, if not quite a bit more - but that's if it's really good hazel.

FilipT:
@JNystrom, you may be completely right but I don't know for sure. Were you using exactly this:
http://img.tacklewarehouse.com/watermark/rs.php?path=PPSL-1.jpg&nw=302

On picture spool says 65 lbs, but I have 80 lbs one. Also 300 yds like the one on picture.

@Will S
In my experience, hazel is very weird tree. Trees that grow near each other and be of same size can have completely different properties. For example, one of my hazel flatbows came out to be 60# at the end which I wanted and under my draw knife wood seemed to be not too hard.
But one other hazel flatbow with almost the same dimensions came out at the end to be little under 50#.

This hazel was very hard to work with. I think it has much bigger SG than these two examples above. But I doubt it's above 140lb.

It's funny that people put hazel in the category of weak or even not too good bow woods, but that probably depends on location.
It's also interesting that Gibbs made really big hazel bow in order to get 150# (is that so?).

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