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Offline Holten101

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Re: Bow performance.... curious
« Reply #15 on: July 26, 2012, 01:00:01 pm »
Quote from: PEARL DRUMS on July 26, 2012, 12:54:57 pm
You and I like the same type of bows.  A nice, smooth flatbow. If I get more than 1" of set I know I can do better, regardless of how much reflex I started with.  I still have bows that follow the string a inch or less that shoot lights out. However I like my string to be SUPER taught at brace. Thats my personal guage. You can tell alot by plucking a bows string.

Thats my gauge too.

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Re: Bow performance.... curious
« Reply #16 on: July 26, 2012, 01:02:21 pm »
Ever notice how tight a properly built 45# bow's string can be? I love that!
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Offline Holten101

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Re: Bow performance.... curious
« Reply #17 on: July 26, 2012, 01:12:26 pm »
Yeah...nothing beats the "twang" of a zero set bow (no matter what the dw is) with perfect limb timing:-)

I go by the twang, and borrow a chrono occationally....hight brace tension allmost allways = decent to good arrow speed (variables taken into account ofc).

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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Bow performance.... curious
« Reply #18 on: July 26, 2012, 03:27:31 pm »
If you go by pure kinetic energy to determine if anything will kill humanely, you will be forced to concede that no bow can kill.  Only Ultra-Mag depleted uranium heat seeking slugs from a CIA operated drone will do the trick. 

Funny, when flintlocks came out the deer suddenly stopped dying from arrows.  And when caplocks came out, same for the flinters.  And on and on until today.  Eventually, deer will stop dying from car strikes when we all have our Tim Wilson Jetpacks!
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Offline Badger

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Re: Bow performance.... curious
« Reply #19 on: July 26, 2012, 04:29:33 pm »
 Yep, if you have a tight string at brace and your outer limbs are at least reasonably narrow the bow will perform well.
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Offline dbb

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Re: Bow performance.... curious
« Reply #20 on: July 26, 2012, 10:09:42 pm »
JW thats why i posted it,even if i dont hunt myself due to silly legislation i have seen and read enough to think that the setup with an arrow at 550-600 grain at speeds of around 170fps is what many use.
But if Easton say no go...We all may have to do like Billy....Can someone pass me the dragonfly drumsticks please. :P

/Mikael
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Offline hedgeapple

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Re: Bow performance.... curious
« Reply #21 on: July 27, 2012, 02:31:45 am »
Quote from: Badger on July 26, 2012, 04:29:33 pm
Yep, if you have a tight string at brace and your outer limbs are at least reasonably narrow the bow will perform well.

I always like the way you simplify things.
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Offline Pappy

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Re: Bow performance.... curious
« Reply #22 on: July 27, 2012, 06:41:21 am »
agree Hedge. Thats how I judge them. :)
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