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Del the cat:
--- Quote from: DC on October 25, 2020, 09:39:03 am ---Yeah, I was shooting against hunting bows and was only 20 yds past them. I was getting very poor launch I think. How much can the launch affect the distance? Somehow I just can't see anything that will get me out to 400 yds. Even if I changed a half dozen things that got me 10 yds each I'm still short.
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The elusive clean loose can add 30 yards... you can shoot half a dozen arrows and 5 of 'em are within a few paces of each other... you eventually find the other 30 yards on :)
I remember with one disappointing try out session, I was a bout to go home and thought I'd have one more shot... never saw it go and it was way further than my others. :) (I'd probably stopped worrying and just went for it)
Del
DC:
Can you bare shaft effectively with no tip weight?
DC:
This is very discouraging. I spend the morning making an arrow only to have it break on the first test shot. Fine grained Doug Fir, 55# spine, barrelled, about 8 yds from the target, no tip weight, 50# bow. It seemed to hit the target reasonably straight but it didn't stick in, just split into two pieces. There was some grain run out but the split is 10" long. I would trust a scarf joint 30 times as long as the thickness. How the heck do you guys make flight arrows?
willie:
can you describe your target? you might need to slow the arrow easier.
Badger:
You are not looking for several little things that will get you 10 yards each, this is nothing like bow building, you are looking for one little thing that will get you a 100 yards. If you can see you arrow fly it is most likely a bad shot. I think you need to have your arrows closer to 200 grains and then figure the spine you need. I believe 50# is too much spine regardless of how you say they flew. You can loose a lot of velocity in the first 10 ft which takes about 1/25 of a second. If your bow is close to center shot it would need more spine than 1" deflection at 22 inch centers and 2# weight.
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