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avcase:
I have some video taken from a perfect angle and lighting behind me of shooting my footbow and I could clearly see the arrow make a horizontal slot in the paper.  The next several frames showed the arrow continuing on its way with the nock left and point to the right, which was exactly what the hole in the paper would have told me. Each frame captured nearly three feet of travel, but it was good enough even at vey high arrow speeds.

The angle the video is taken from is important. It has to be taken directly from behind the bow. There is a rastering effect even with the high speed video frames where the image is usually scanned top to bottom.  This made the arrow appear a little shorter in flight than it actually was. But it was good enough. There is another video where it shows a perfect hole punched in the paper and the next several frames show the arrow maintaining a perfectly aligned path. That arrow was one we didn’t find....

Alan

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