The effect of adding weight to bow tips

[Shredd]

 Don't knock it... There are a few good advantages to a faster, high performance bow...  Besides some of us like pushing the limits and the challenge of tweaking a design to get maximum performance out of a bow... I just designed a new Hyper Lam last night and am excited about trying to squeeze another 2-3 fps out of my design...  If it does, it's like Xmas morning...   

[kennym]

The things people do for a couple of FPS....   tapered lams, glue them in reverse, riser length, bow tip weight, etc etc. it’s all been done. There’s a bunch of ways to build a bow. Speed usually varies little but is basically due to obvious design properties.  Some things add a little or remove a little vibration, but most of it is not exactly turning the archery world upside down because it makes so little difference. A good bowyer can fix a crappy bow to shoot ok. You will miss or hit the target or deer quicker or slower by 5-10 FPS, which is about 3-5% ish.     just seems like unicorn hunting for 20 yd shots.  90% of my shots on game in 30 years of bow hunting are 12 yds or less. I could spear critters.

2 FPS don't amount to much but if you do 5 things you have 10 FPS. It takes much testing and thinking to add speed. Besides, you get to build more bows to test stuff...

Disclaimer- I'm not a speed nut, shootable and quiet first, any added speed is just free horsepower.

[monterey]

I'm not a speed seeker either but speed along with other aspects of performance tells a lot about the bow.  So, I always look for speed but for my own use it's usually used to get a heavier arrow going faster.

[kennym]

I'm not a speed seeker either but speed along with other aspects of performance tells a lot about the bow.  So, I always look for speed but for my own use it's usually used to get a heavier arrow going faster.

Zackly!

[Overspined]

I’ve played some with speed, and when I saw there was little room for significant gains if the original design is good I went for other properties.

I appreciate your test, and had to laugh when the conclusion you reached was similar to mine. I hear the bow tip mass opinions pretty frequently, and reasonable limb tip mass weight is quite insignificant. I’m sure it could get carried away but it would be tough to tell which bow had what tips shooting blind folded even.

Yet building more bows is always promising!