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Bows / Re: The best shape for a reflexed bow?
« Last post by sleek on December 07, 2025, 04:10:52 pm »So, which shape is the best? By best, I mean the fastest and the one that stores the most energy. Why? Which design performs the worst, and why?
Does maximim storage energy equate with performance?
I am curious if different designs of the same materiels are more or less efficient when delivering the energy to the arrow. (what weight arrows are you designing for?)
Max energy storage absolutely does not equal performance. As a matter of fact, a bow could be made to store double its energy and only deliver to the arrow a small fraction of it. I struggles with my short recurve designs stringing energy, so I started focusing on what made them more efficient at delivering that energy. Eventually I got the design sorted out. Think, the energy consumed by the 1950s big engines, but how little they delivered. Same concept.
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