"Horn Bow Performance....."...

[PatM]

    Why, we've even been known to "take it outside" a time or two.

[bubby]

That's a great analogy pearl, I'll take a shirt and some coolies at a drastic firesale price

[Marc St Louis]

Hopefully he will learn to be a bit less full of himself when he is allowed back in 30 days

[bubby]

Hopefully

[bowandarrow473]

Now, what exactly happened in the latest thread?
I was all ready to make some horn and bone wedges and try it out for myself!

[PatM]

Now, what exactly happened in the latest thread?
I was all ready to make some horn and bone wedges and try it out for myself!

Hard to say what his point was.  He was going to show how to build a totally primitive bow despite dismissing every known feasible way to do that as impossible.
 He did find a promising rock though.

[bowandarrow473]

Well, there goes my plans for Wednesday morning!
Shame that a member had to be suspended, maybe he'll learn to be more accepting of others opinions and experiences in the future.

Cheers everyone!

[osage outlaw]

I missed out on all the fun.  Sounds like this guy might just be woodbandits dad or something.  Or maybe one of the squirrely kids.

[Badger]

   Back to the original topic confirmed by independent testing. How do horn bows perform? Lets say we through out the top 5% best performers of glass bows, wood bows and horn bows. Horn bows perform very close to the best fiberglass bows, composite wood bows perform about 5% below the horn bows and self bows perform about 5% below the composite wood bows. There are always exceptions but this is about the average. Flight shooting records are no indication of performance of a bow. Too many factors involved.

[Traxx]

Based on what im reading,it sounds reminiscent of a few past threads.Im actually glad i missed it.

[PatM]

    Flight shooting records are no indication of performance of a bow.

 
 Come on, Steve.......

[Badger]

   Pat, if you were to flight shoot heavier arrows like broadheads or at least 7 grains per pound then it would be a good indicator of performance. With the very light arrows I consistently score better with detuned bows, so far the very fast bows I have not gotten much out of due to bad flight issues. Flight shooting is a lot more than making fast bows, all aspects have to be met for good shots to happen.

[PatM]

That doesn't mean it's not the most important thing.

[Badger]

       Pat, I agree the fastest bows have the greatest potential and I will always stick with the faster bows in the spirit of flight shooting. I know I need to get my act together in other areas as well. I have mentioned this before but last year I had a real eye opener durring practice. I brought a bow along that I was building to give to someone as a hunting bow, just a straight osage long bow with a hint of reflex about 65" long or so. The handle was badly out of alignment and I had planned on fooling with it at the flight shoot. Anyway I shot an arrow further with it than any arrow I have ever shot because the arrow came out so clean with the bad alignment, I am guessing it allowed it to clear the handle better. The simple comp record I have was shot with an old bow that was fast when it was first built but over the years had broken down badly.

      I have another bow I built specifialy for flight and is very fast with the light arrows. I am barely getting over 300 yards with it. I plan to take it back again next year and mix in some heavier arrow and see how it does.

[bradsmith2010]

very interesting, I always felt the bows aligned to the arrow side were positive, but had no real evidence,, just seemed easier to tune,,, I always learn something and then get confused about with the new info,,infinitely fascinating ,,,,