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Interesting HLD bow explosion (Pic heavy)

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BoltBows:

--- Quote from: Badger on November 19, 2018, 07:30:25 am ---  I don't believe it has ever been confirmed that the hollow limb is a fast design. Have you seen any tests done on it?

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Of course you're right there Badger and no I haven’t. Just suspicions!
I agree it would be very interesting to make a lot of HLD bows to somehow compare to ‘normal’ design bows, but yeah it would be hard to truly compare.

simk:
would it be wrong to argue that a HLD profile in general needs less wood/mass to generate same strain/draw weight than other common cross-section designs and therefore should be more competitive? just asking...

Del the cat:
Great pics interesting post.
Del

leonwood:
You are right Weylin, you just never know with wood. There is so much difference in wood even from the same species that most tests only say something about the specific piece of wood the testbows are made from.

But specifically about HLD bows, I have done quite a lot of them in the last two years and I must say that all of them came out as really good shooters. Especially the whitewood ones from elder and hazel amaze me with the amount of set (almost none) and how they hold up even after a lot of arrows.

This bow for example: http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php?topic=61803.0

I gave it to to a fellow archer who broke his osage bow and he shoots it a lot. The bow still has no set and even after shooting for a few hours it immediately snaps straight after unbracing. And it still shoots 176 fps

Badger:
That is a good report. I have always wondered of the hollow limb design might be less prone to vibration in the last few inches of the power stroke. Flat bows have some distortion here that looses energy.

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