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How do you measure draw length?
Selfbowman:
Pearl the reason I measure from the back is thats as far as you can draw a broadhead arrow for flight shooting. That way the poundage of the bows are equal for the contestants. But yes what you say makes since. Your draw is as long as your arm is.🤠🤠
Pappy:
The back of the bow never changes, the throat does. Pappy
bentstick54:
I agree with Pappy. I don’t measure my selfbows using the AMO method used on modern recurves. I measure from back of handle to string at full draw( which is the throat of the nock). Correlates to actual length of arrow draw from back of point to throat of nock.
superdav95:
--- Quote from: Pappy on February 17, 2025, 05:50:55 pm ---The back of the bow never changes, the throat does. Pappy
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well said pappy! this is how i measure also.
simk:
--- Quote from: superdav95 on February 18, 2025, 10:57:29 am ---
--- Quote from: Pappy on February 17, 2025, 05:50:55 pm ---The back of the bow never changes, the throat does. Pappy
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well said pappy! this is how i measure also.
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not agree :) at least if you measure at your tillering rig, where your scale normally is fixed. here you cannot measure from the back or your measurements will differ with thickness of handle.
in ther words: If you measure from the back how do you adjust your tillering tree to fit various bows with different thickness in the handle?
just asking :)
amo makes sense to me - even in result it favors the thicker grip.
In the end its not very important. Umless you are interested in comparisons - here you see a lot of "wrong" results comparing apples and pears. If somebody comes up with a 200fps bow always ask how they measured dl ;)
cheers
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