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Offline mahaska 53

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Fast flight on selfbow
« on: February 24, 2014, 09:52:00 PM »
Has anyone used a padded fast flight on a selfbow? I was told it would be ok as long as it was padded.
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Re: Fast flight on selfbow
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2014, 10:06:00 PM »
Yep, never had a problem, but I only use them on bows with tip overlays.  The exception is osage, I don't worry about having overlays when using it.
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Re: Fast flight on selfbow
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2014, 10:59:00 PM »
I switched to FF about two years ago on all of my selfbows.
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Re: Fast flight on selfbow
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2014, 08:00:00 AM »
ive done it on two bows now no problem.  12 strand d97 on one and 14 strands on another. no padding.  if i was gonna go like 9 strands i guess i would.
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Re: Fast flight on selfbow
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2014, 09:04:00 AM »
I've got 4 selbows all with d97 10 strand loops padded to 16 strands. Only one of the 4 has tip overlays and I've had no issues with any of them. Definitely increases performance.
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Re: Fast flight on selfbow
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2014, 03:35:00 PM »
I use B-50 but I have 2 osage bows that Dano sent me, both have fast flight and neither have tip overlays.
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Re: Fast flight on selfbow
« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2014, 10:34:00 AM »
I usually don't bother even padding the loops unless it's a really skinny string.

I have one sinew backed eastern red cedar with pin nocks and no overlays, it's been shooting for years with a FF string.

I don't even own B-50.
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Re: Fast flight on selfbow
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2014, 02:36:00 PM »
I use 10 strands and add 2 strands of b50 in the ends of each bundle, overlays or not
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