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Looking for a 400 yard shot

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Selfbowman:
Kevin you need to talk to Jim Davis if you want to make thee arrows longer. He makes a arrow repair that’s about three inches long that glued on to the taper tooled shaft. So taper tool your arrow and glue  his piece of shaft on the end. It adds about 3-4” to the length. Pretty slick arrow repair for those of us that miss a lot .🤠🤠🤠

Del the cat:
watching with interest.
My PB is 341yards with a self Osage (the Osage was from Osage Outlaw when I visited the TN Classic).
I can't pull the heavy weights anymore, so I can't see myself bettering that.
I was testing a release aid that I made last Autumn with a heavy flight bow, it released before I was expecting and it gave my left elbow a huge jolt with the recoil (it made me yelp and say bad words  ;D ), it's not been the same since.  :(
Hey ho, none of us getting any younger I s'pose.  ::)
Del

bjrogg:
I will be watching this. (-P

My wife, son dog and I drove almost 1500 miles to play with Arvin.
Never did get to watch the arrow fly for distance. I’m still looking forward to that some day.

It was worth the drive anyway

Good luck sleek.

Bjrogg

Selfbowman:
Kevin I could be very wrong ! But if you have only 50# of energy in a35” draw well that’s what you have no matter how far you pull the arrow back. Now if you add 60 gr of arrow shaft by making the arrow longer you defeated your purpose so to speak. I think there is a happy place where the mass of the arrow and draw weight and length peaks. That’s why shorter bows with shorter arrows do better in flight. Now you take a 70 or a hundred pound bow it could be different I think mass ratio between arrows and draw length and weight might be the key to distance. But what does the related math guy know.🤠🤠🤠

Badger:
 Arvin, if the bow was drawing 35" you would likely have about 62# stored energy. That would not be near enough to make up for the drag of an extra 10" of the arrow. Monuz seems to do pretty well at 30" for the hundred # bows but who is to say he wouldn't do better with shorter arrows? Hard to say. I know only about 230 fps is needed to hit 400 yards with a very well-tuned arrow. 300 fps will not reach 300 yards if the arrow is not tuned.

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