Perry's Reflex Bows

[LeeNY]

This is a question concerning this design. I've been researching bow designs for 10+ years. I've been learning as I write and own all or most of the design books associated with bow design.

My question is with all the modern articles associated with the Perry design I was under the assumption this design evolved as a flight bow. With it's ultimate design being to shoot an arrow as far as possible?

With this being said most bows designed using the Perry Design are short lived and semi special purposed?

Now after you've read this what are your feelings? This is based on a wide range of articles on the subject.

[2treks]

Not just for flight shooting.Not short lived. Designs can be tweaked for any number of reasons and speed,draw,hand shock are just a few.Each one comes with a trade off(or two). Find the PA magazine from a few years ago that has an article by Dan Perry called 'build your own flight bow"(or something like that). Very informative. A flight bow may be short lived but that is not because it was made with perry reflex it is because it shoots VERY lite arrows and is built with nothing left over for protection,basicly dry fired every shot. Bows made with this Perry reflex also hold the world flight records for broadhead arrows of 500gn.  I hope this helps.
Chuck

[Living_waters]

That is basically what I gathered from an article with Dan Perry. Flight bows because of their build for specific use are short lived "for flight archery competitiveness". Perry says a well made bow of this design for will out last a self bow before it breaks down. This is all concerning flight archery. But as Chuck has said tweaked a design that sends an arrow far across a field can be made to be a real hunter with great cast, because cast is what is the driving force in building a flight bow.
Taking a side by side comparison the bow I just built was similar to one of Perrys flight bows. But a 1/4" wider at the fades, shorter non working handle, and 2 inch less draw length. There is a trade off for these changes, but the physics of the design still apply. Reduced limb mass and prestored energy does increase cast, while the tweaks builds in some safety measures. Although stressed it is nowhere as stressed as many accepted designs.
Many designs we use today started out as a specific use artillery piece.
Here is one of Dans articles that explains some of this.

[LeeNY]

Jeff,,Thanks and well put. I guess short sightedness made me not see that the design when tweaked a little bit has more options. It even made me dig out my old PA magazines and search out Dan's article. I'm going to read it later.

BTW your bow came out nice!

Chuck, Thanks