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Flight Arrows
DC:
Well I may be stupid but looking at those pictures doesn't help me know how they work or how to use them. ;D Any videos? Not the ones in the article. I can see that they are holding something and that eventually the arrow disappears but that's all.
I did figure out how the figure 9 ones work. I made one once that was just a strap of leather that went around the string and you pinched the end of it. It worked well but when the leather flipped around the string it smacked my knuckle real hard. I only used it a few times and then screamed the safe word :D
The one with the string loop and the barely bent wire has me puzzled.
bjrogg:
I hope you get it figured out DC. I’m wanting to play in this sand box to. I haven’t watched any of the videos or links yet but I hope we can both figure this out.
I’m curious about thing like % of foc. Spine, tip weight, fletching. Length Rules. Different categories.
Badger mentions a 25” arrow. That would fit my draw nicely, but I was thinking I would have to somehow stretch out my draw to 28” (I have to stretch it out to 25” as it is) and go with a 50@28 bow.
For now I’m just having fun shooting my 600 grain river cane pole barn spike point arrows and watching them fly. I only have to walk about half as far to get them as what you guys are talking.
Bjrogg
PS hope to give you some encouragement DC
JNystrom:
--- Quote from: bjrogg on December 22, 2020, 06:17:59 am ---Badger mentions a 25” arrow. That would fit my draw nicely, but I was thinking I would have to somehow stretch out my draw to 28” (I have to stretch it out to 25” as it is) and go with a 50@28 bow.
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What i've learned is basically that the starting point is minimizing ratio of grains to poundage. If i'm shooting for a distance record, i never go over 200 grains with the arrow. In the 50-90# shortbows or composite bows it means something like 4gpp to 1,6gpp. But physics tell us one should go much lower if at all possible to get the maximum distance.
Harry Drake shot in 1945 a 69 pound yew bow with 23" arrow weighing 135 grains some 541 yards. So that goes along nicely with the theory!
Digital Caveman:
Yes, but lighter arrows are more susceptible to drag.
willie:
--- Quote from: tradcraftsman on December 28, 2020, 10:18:52 am ---Yes, but lighter arrows are more susceptible to drag.
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theoretically yes, assuming two stabilized arrows of otherwise similar dimensions. I wonder if early stabilization and reduction of consequent velocity losses seem more important, even to the point of having a heavier (stiffer) arrow than than the one Harry managed to shoot.
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