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avcase:
The trend over time is that the shortest arrow that you can get a clean launch with will do best. Every year, I go out and shoot and catalog the performance of arrows with a shooting contraption that maintains a fixed draw length, shooting angle, and measures the launch speed. Each year, my best flying arrows got a little shorter. I used to think the arrow with the smallest diameter should do best, but a shorter arrow of the same mass with a thicker maximum diameter always did better as long as the arrow tapers to the point and same diameter nock end as the longer thin arrow.
Last year I finally ran into a bit of a limit where the arrow was too short and I could not get as clean a launch. This because I was overdrawing the arrow about double the arrow’s length.
Alan
DC:
How do you keep the string from running into the overdraw device?
avcase:
The arrow tip is supported on several flexible pieces of Mylar. It provides a very secure support for the tip of the arrow. The string blows right through when the bow is shot. I have to change out the arrow rest about every 20 shots.
Alan
DC:
Thanks, my mind was imagining two sliding troughs and I couldn't see that working.
PatM:
DC, Have you ever seen a Korean overdraw? It will blow your mind when it comes to short arrows and long draws.
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