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Hazel longbow, 100# @ 28"

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Del the cat:
If you always pull it to full target weight and watch the draw length slowly increase as you remove wood, you can't come in too light! (well maybe the odd pound or two)
It really does need a disciplined approach if you want to hit a target weight.
This post shows what I mean. 110# Warbow from stave to full draw as a single picture showing it being pulled to 110# at each stage.
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,61907.0.html
Del

FilipT:
I must buy better and stronger scale. This current is made like a dynamometer (spring inside a shaft) and measures up to 110#.

Badger:
    If you want a 90# bow do as Del says and pull to 90# each time, instead of thinking about taking weight off just think of perfecting tiller and the weight will come off. Just keep making the tiller more perfect and more like what your ideal is. Always pulling to 90# and no more.

FilipT:
Tnx Badger.

willie:
what do the truck drivers use where you are?

stuff like this is reasonably priced


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