I'm at a high speed stand still on pictures. I'm having camera problems. I will get them at some point.
I shot the Swift a little this evening. I shot a few arrows through the chronograph to see what she was doing. I had the chrony set up at 15 ft. That's the distance I always used with my firearms. I just came in the house and looked at one of Blackys reports and saw that he set his chrony up at 3 ft. I'm curious how much difference 12 ft will make and will try again this weekend.
I've always put speed behind accuracy and terminal performance with bows or firearms but wanted to know what kind of arrow speed I was getting.
If my bow scale is right I was pulling 43#. My draw is 27.5" and the arrow weight 530 grns. I shot 5 arrows per set and it averaged 165 fps.
I was surprised the difference the release made. If I was careful and used good consistant form and release the spread was 1 to 2 fps. It didn't take much of a rough release to jump to 5 to 10 fps spread between shots. It's no wonder I can't hit the broad side of a barn some days. You all already knew this but I thought it was pretty interesting.
Anyway, I'm going to see what the chrony says at 3 ft sometime this weekend and hopefully I get some pictures off of the camera and posted. She sure is a sweet bow!
Topic: Great Plains SR Swift (Read 580 times)
