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Del the cat:
--- Quote from: Badger on April 30, 2019, 02:07:38 pm --- Del I think the small gains that might come with a low brace height can be easily recovered with giving top priority to clean arrow flight right out of the bow. This seems to trump almost everything else.
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That's sort of what I was thinking, but I wondered if I could cheat it:-
Take a bow braced at 6". If a 1" block is fixed to the belly of the grip, the actual brace height in terms of the stress and curve of the bow hasn't changed (although by conventional measurements it is now 5").
But... one could use a 1" shorter arrow, and correspondingly lighter/dynamically stiffer arrow (at risk of wrist slap) and if that 1" block is correctly shaped, it should hardly effect the flight from the bow.
I've tried to explain it better, does that make sense? Is it just smoke and mirrors or is there a potential gain?
Del
Badger:
At the u,s tournament that 1" block would not be allowed. We have to use our hand as a rest and it can't be pulled past the back of the bow.
Selfbowman:
I am with you on shock Del. The one! I built had plenty. I think it's a matter of straightening the off tiller so you can move the hand where ever it's needed! To achieve proper tiller in a pinch. Remember this was designed for war and when the King said I need a thousand in to months. Tiller was important of corse but maybe this gave them more lead way?? I am sure some one will correct me if I am wrong. And please do if need be. Arvin
Del the cat:
--- Quote from: Badger on April 30, 2019, 03:11:45 pm ---At the u,s tournament that 1" block would not be allowed. We have to use our hand as a rest and it can't be pulled past the back of the bow.
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Hmmm, the difficulties of language :-[.... I'll draw a pic! ;D
The "block" is just a thickening of the handle.
In the pic you can see that with or without the orange block, the bow is actually drawn the same and the bracing stresses will be exactly the same.
The draw length, brace height and poundage will be exactly the same IF measured to the back..
But for flight shooting they will be measured to the belly.
With the addition of the thickened grip, a shorter arrow can be shot.
Del
PS. Can't be pulled past the back?... In uk you can pull it back as far as possible (e.g, just short of the belly) but no overdraw aid is allowed.
Badger:
Del, You might be right about the back of the hand, my memory plays tricks on me now and then.
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