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Learned my actual draw length and wow!
k-hat:
Nid I had a very similar experience. Starting into archery in 2010 i tried every method to measure my draw length and arrived at 28" (go figure). After a few years of making bows and sending them on their way, but not yet hunting I never rechecked my draw. Well my draw finally settled in pretty consistent and I was given a beautiful osage recurve in the PA trade by rps3 (I asked for a 28" draw bow, thinking still that's what it was). I COULD NEVER GET IT TUNED! It gave me fits trying to use the "math" and my arrows flying crazy. I gave up for a while. A couple years ago I was shocked to find my draw was 26", no wonder!! That 2" makes a huge difference, about 5# in my case.
EMBRACE THE SHORT DRAW!! Take full advantage of your draw length, esp in hunting. Short bows are super efficient. I just finished a 51" osage static, only 5/8" of set. At 60#@26", she is a screamer. You will find, however, that drawing a short bow to full draw is quite a different experience from short drawing a longer bow.
I agree that if you're over 50# or so at your 23", you should be good to go, and you'll be surprised at how much faster a 50" bow is than a 60" bow when the same weight at 23".
rps3:
Hi k-hat,were you ever able to tune it? The fault is probably my poor tillering. I've been accuse of being tall at 6'4", and I have trouble getting past 28" draw.
k-hat:
Hey! I did have a hard time finding shafts in my batches that were light enough for my draw, and wound up doing ok with using my shafts nearly full length. Then i trained quite a bit with that 60# shorty, and found after that I could easily pull your bow back the full 28" consistently (use thumb-knuckle to ear for anchor ) and she was shooting beautifully and sent the arrows speedily away.
No complaints, your craftsmanship was top notch tiller included, it was all me not knowing my actual draw length. That was supposed to be my point, i got distracted and left that out. ::)
rps3:
Glad to hear you were able to figure it out...thanks.
bradsmith2010:
at 23 inches a bow can have nice performance,, at 20 inches its more difficult,,
I am usually shooting my bows through a chrono while tillering, and at 23 24 inches they start to shoot pretty hard,,,
exceding 150 fps with 10gpp,, 150 fps can be achieved with the 20 inch draw,,
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