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Buckskinner:
Sweet looking bow.  That is a ridiculous speed for a 45#er...

sleek:

--- Quote from: simk on July 16, 2022, 10:35:18 am ---Sleek, altough I'd love to try, real flightshooting is a very complex thing and hard to find a place in tiny Switzerland, where I live. Shooting the chrono is easy and imho conclusive when it comes to the bow itself, excluding the archers and arrowmakers talent. Shooting the 10gpp somehow seems a little boring too. Most of my bows are very close in the 180's. Also 10gpp imho does not justice to many bow designs...its just a random standard. When it comes to lighter arrows we will see big differences tough. I find this very interesting and often try to find out the real max speed of a bow....altough I havent light enough arrows yet. I like bomaking, making arrows seems boring 🙃

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If you have a bow you would like tested at the salt flats, let me know. I don't know what shipping would cost, but if you can get the bow to the states I'd be happy to shoot it for you. I don't know exactly but I believe my self bow record also broke the simple composite record. This bow qualifies for simple composite and is close in performance and poundage to mine at the same draw weight. It may have a good chance. Just something to consider if you like.

simk:
Thank you very much sleek! This is a beautiful and generous offer. I did not build this bow for the flats actually. It was a quick build and I did not spend too much time for the tillering. But It's back now to well over 3" reflex again and I think its just extraordinary wood. Not sure weather I have another nice piece of that log nor time to make a new one. So I will talk to the bow again, put a spell on her make a 2nd tuning stage with love and caress and dial it again, this time @50# @ 26" or 27" and a tad lighter in mass. If this all works out I will send it to you with joy.
Cheers
and thanx everybody!

sleek:

--- Quote from: simk on July 17, 2022, 02:18:39 pm ---Thank you very much sleek! This is a beautiful and generous offer. I did not build this bow for the flats actually. It was a quick build and I did not spend too much time for the tillering. But It's back now to well over 3" reflex again and I think its just extraordinary wood. Not sure weather I have another nice piece of that log nor time to make a new one. So I will talk to the bow again, put a spell on her make a 2nd tuning stage with love and caress and dial it again, this time @50# @ 26" or 27" and a tad lighter in mass. If this all works out I will send it to you with joy.
Cheers
and thanx everybody!

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Standing by to see what you are able to do. I wouldn't draw the bow past 26. My arrows only allow for a 26 inch draw. I will use the arrow that I broke the record with on your bow as well, to give it the best chance. Any medals the bow wins I will send back to you with the bow, and I'm certain you can expect some as long as the weather is good :)

simk:
Please sleek, don't talk about medals before anything happend  ;D And it's a beginners bow too...
I talked to the bow, exercised her and took some measurings. I roughly estimated her to be around 45# - I was wrong - I didn't use the scale for the tillering...it was just a feeling  :) scale now says its only 42# in fact ....lol...its good for the speeds I measured but bad for the contest now. Lets see if I can bring it to 45#+. Before the exercising I measured 81mm reflex, after 60. This makes around 6/8" set right after unstringing. Finding a tiny fret is really surprising and annoying of course..., not visible in the tiller as some kind of hinge. will try to make a reliable bow for 50 arrows  ;D 

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