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New and old toys in slowmotion (now with longbow pics)

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simk:
thanx Steve!
thanx superdav! I have seen you making something like that and I'm sure you will succeed. Mine again had 13" reflex when I strung it after resting 2 or 3 months. thats one+ to what I started before sinewing. sinew probably does not change a given profile a lot imho.
it has a static release. got to be quick  :) I had shot the hornbow "natural" also but only 26 or 27" I think. If I remember right I got mid 180' 10gpp. But this machine seems very accurate - made three shots on the hornbow: 197,197,196...
I shot selfbows also on the machine...those seem slower than shot natural.

simk:
I have a few longbow pics. made a couple of these. kept this one because of bad gluelines and testing. this one is 68" - 41@28" - 455gramms. Very comfortable shooter.  :)

simk:
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bassman211:
Nice bows, and you will have fun with your chrony. The speeds you are clocking are excellent. it would take a dam good glass bow to shoot those numbers.

BowEd:
Excellent speed on those arrows.Now we are in the fast lane.I always like proving to FG bow makers the error of their ways.....ha ha.
Seriously about 5 years ago or so maybe more I got together with an FG bow maker and he made a shooting machine.As most bow shops do not house these machines.
It's a very good way to compare bows to bows as the human element is eliminated.Our general consensus was that the machine trigger shot the arrows around 5 to 7 fps faster than an archer does from his fingers.
Looking on line that is the general consensus other archers have come to too.
Nice I'm sure a smooth shooting long bow you made there too.

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