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Did DC hit 200 fps @ 10GPP after all??

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bradsmith2010:
thats a good question,, I think I remember to the back of bow,, but Alan or Steve would know for sure

avcase:

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Alan
How was the28"  drawlength measured? AMO? to back of bow?   

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I recall feeling pretty confident that DC’s bow ended up meeting the AMO standard, which is a draw of 26-1/4” from the deepest part of the grip.  However, I think the test specifics were spread out over a number of different posts. There was a lot of checking and rechecking and refinement. For example, rechecking the chrono used by shooting through two chronographs at once, refinement of a shooting fixture, etc.

It is unfortunate that the AMO standard adds a 1-3/4” offset to a 26-1/4” draw length, and then calls it a 28” draw. We don’t do this with our measurement of brace height. This has led to endless confusion over the years.

avcase:

--- Quote from: Badger on December 06, 2022, 06:59:50 pm ---Alan, I should probably ship the bow back to you.

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Steve,
It would be cool to see what this could do if systematically matched to a set of new top notch flight arrows.  It takes some time to do all this, but it would be pretty cool to see the full potential.

bjrogg:
Glad to see this post.

I’ve been thinking about DC lately and wondering how he’s been.

He added a lot to this site.

If your out there DC I hope all is well

Bjrogg

DC:
Thanks BJ, I think about you every time I have a can of Bushes Beans. ;) I'm doing well. Alan contacted me yesterday and said my name had popped up here. Well, I couldn't resist poking my nose in. I think the "Quest for 200" just burned me out and I just got to the point where there was no interest in making bows any more. I tend to do a hobby for about ten years and then move on. My last ten or so bows hovered around 195-200 and I couldn't tell from one to the next what the difference was. When you're aiming a 1 fps gain there ain't much difference. Every bow was a crap shoot and i was just accumulating more and more bows that never got shot. The SCA group would take some but then I would have to re-tiller them to be 30-35 lbs and that was kind of defeating. There's still 48 bows hanging in my hall. As for the 200fps@10gpp I do believe that I made about 4 or 5 that Were honestly in that range. I'm waiting patiently for Tuomo to test the one that he has just for a little confirmation :) :) No pressure Tuomo ;)
Steve, there is no point in sending the bow back to me. It would just join the others on the wall. I remember giving it to you in one of our last conversations so it's up to you, but it would be nice to see Alan mess with it. Maybe Jordan would want it. I was pleased to see that the record she set with it held this year. It's my 15 minutes of fame. I have a copy of the results out in my shop and I look at it every so often.
Anyway, I took up model ship building. I'm scratch building a model of George Vancouver's Discovery. While I was making bows I cultivated some Hazel suckers for bows and when I quit making bows and took up boats I harvested the Hazel and used it to make the ship. I've been working on it for just over a year and I'm maybe halfway. At least ships don't pile up in the corner as fast as bows did.
So that's it from me.
Don


Oh Mark, how did those bows I sent you work out?

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