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Offline cutty

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Making bow longer then your draw length
« on: May 12, 2019, 08:35:55 pm »
How do you shoot in a bow made for someone who has 5” more draw length then you?
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Offline Hawkdancer

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Re: Making bow longer then your draw length
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2019, 09:25:53 pm »
Mark the arrows for your draw length!  A black ring or a sinew wrap to hit your finger.  You may need to  experiment a bit. Excess draw length is usually not a problem.
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Offline cutty

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Re: Making bow longer then your draw length
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2019, 09:38:16 pm »
I mean I’m making a bow for someone who has a 30” draw, mine is 25”.
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: Making bow longer then your draw length
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2019, 12:43:28 am »
Start with a suitably long stave, scale up an existing bow and tiller it to the required draw length in the usual way.
So 30" is 1.2 time 25"
So make the bow 20% longer... or go for 25% just for wriggle room. The thickness/width will go up a bit too.
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Offline DC

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Re: Making bow longer then your draw length
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2019, 08:27:16 am »
Quote from: cutty on May 12, 2019, 08:35:55 pm
How do you shoot in a bow made for someone who has 5” more draw length then you?

Hire someone taller to do it ;)
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Offline Woodely

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Re: Making bow longer then your draw length
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2019, 08:47:17 am »
Just pull it on a tiller stick numerous times this should stress the wood fibres enough I would think.  In all my bow building over the last 8 years I have found that shooting my bows in makes hardly any difference in any noticeable weight changes or otherwise.  After 200 shots the bows still hold their own.
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Offline Danzn Bar

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Re: Making bow longer then your draw length
« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2019, 09:30:40 am »
Yep, I've got some bows that has over 1000 shots through them and the poundage is the same as it was after 100.
I have found that a bow will lose weight during the final tillering or break in stage.  Which is about 100 shots for me. Good luck with her.  She's looking like a good one.
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Offline bradsmith2010

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Re: Making bow longer then your draw length
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2019, 11:02:36 am »
just pull it back to 30 inches and shoot it,,, you will see its not that hard,,, )W(
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Offline Mountain Man1

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Re: Making bow longer then your draw length
« Reply #8 on: May 25, 2019, 12:15:41 pm »
 Easy way to check is grab the end of your tape measure with the support hand and draw back with the other the exact same as you would a bow. Once your hand hits 30 find where the anchor will be and use that point for shooting it in. Or just tiller it 30" and have him come shoot in his own bow.
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Offline Badger

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Re: Making bow longer then your draw length
« Reply #9 on: May 25, 2019, 12:55:44 pm »
Quote from: Woodely on May 13, 2019, 08:47:17 am
Just pull it on a tiller stick numerous times this should stress the wood fibres enough I would think.  In all my bow building over the last 8 years I have found that shooting my bows in makes hardly any difference in any noticeable weight changes or otherwise.  After 200 shots the bows still hold their own.
I agree with that just give it a good workout on the chiller tree no different than shooting it
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