Arrow Paradox Vid

[Curtis Haden]

Was reading a recent post about shelf/fletching contact and thought this would be of interest to folks who haven't had a chance to see something like it before.

Originally posted by aromakr:

There will be very little feather contact with the shelf regardless of the orientation. When your fingers come off the string, the string is pushed to the left and the energy transfered to the arrow caused it the arrow to bow, pushing the fletching away from the riser, with very little contact.

Here's a little video to demonstrate what Bob is saying.



Even this bow is a target model with a rest and plunger button, the physics remain the same for shooting off the shelf.  Hope I did the video link right!    

[tradtusker]

awesome cheers mate

[swampbuck]

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh your not supposed to show folks that the fletch really doesn,t or isn't supposed to touch by quite a bit.

There's a bunch of vids just like this one out there .Interesting to watch what really happens but it does kinda make ya wonder how ya can hit anything at all with a wet noodle hahahahahahaha

[Kingwouldbe]

Cool, do you think she hit the spot?

Girls got some form ( no pun intended )lol

The vibration in her bow is amazing

[Curtis Haden]

I have that vid saved on my puter in .avi format, so I can view it in higher resolution with a lot of control.  What's most amazing to me is how far the string moves laterally at release.  Her fingers don't even open up fully, before the string is displaced way off to her left, outside the upper part of the riser.

Like Swampbuck said, kinda makes you wonder how we ever hit anything!  I had the good fortune a while back to watch a series of old Easton vids on VHS.  They tested and slo-mo filmed a bunch of finger and release shots from many different angles, and even showed some over- and under-spined arrows.  Amazing stuff!

[Bill Carlsen]

Try this site for some interesting stuff.....http://www.talonoptix.com/

[Kingwouldbe]

Thats a cool site Bill

Thanks David

[Onestringer]

Oh my word, She has excellent form.  Her bow arm never moved.