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Making fast bows
Pat B:
Willie, when discussing arrows I always refer to hunting weight arrows, 10 +/- gpp. I shoot the same arrows no matter if I'm hunting or shooting 3D or targets.
Eric Krewson:
Chosing that magical osage that is as hard as a rock but cuts like butter with no splintering with a drawknife, is much heavier than run of the mill osage and has a perfect early wood to late wood ratio. Add some reflex and heat treatment and you have something special.
The top half of the sample on the left made some extra special bows for me.
The wide ring piece in the middle made very sluggish bows.
sleek:
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--- Quote from: sleek on September 18, 2025, 11:28:50 am ---What features of a bow have you guys learned that speeds your bows up?
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Assuming you mean "speeds your arrow up".....
Does it matter if the arrow is a high gpp arrow or a lower gpp?
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Nah, I mean the bow. If you wanna speed an arrow up, you drop its weight. Speeding a bow up ( semanticly speaking ) means it will shoot any arrow weight faster than another bow.
willie:
--- Quote from: sleek on September 18, 2025, 07:15:42 pm ---Nah, I mean the bow. If you wanna speed an arrow up, you drop its weight. Speeding a bow up ( semanticly speaking ) means it will shoot any arrow weight faster than another bow.
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granted, lighter arrows will generally be faster with most bows (all other things being equal).
if you are asking about light arrows tho, isn't it true that there is a point of diminishing returns when it comes to reducing arrow mass? and that some bow designs work better with lighter arrows?
but maybe you are asking about bows for more typical 10 gpp or thereabouts weight arrows?
Badger:
if you are asking about light arrows tho, isn't it true that there is a point of diminishing returns when it comes to reducing arrow mass? and that some bow designs work better with lighter arrows?
Bows with a low virtual mass may shoot very light arrows faster than the faster bow with heavier arrows. Thats why shorter bows are used in flight shooting but not the broadhead event. Most of the time, the faster bow will always be faster, but not all the time.
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