2021 what did you do today?

[Mad Max]

AVCase posted this from last years shoot
In contrast to the failure with the Field bow limbs, the footbow limbs I built this year turned out to be the best performing and most durable that I have made up to this point.  Of the arrows found, every cleanly shot arrow exceeded a mile. The biggest issue was finding the arrows.  At the Smith Creek dry lake, the longest drawn arrows disappeared into an area of hummocks covered with vegetation that we didn’t realize was there. At the Bonneville Salt Flats, the longest drawn shots just couldn’t be found.  I lost so many arrows. The longest verified shot was just over 1,986 yards plus 1-foot.

[Roy from Pa]

WOW..............

[Shredd]

       Double WoW..!!!

[kennym]

Now if we can get someone to dry fire one on slo mo.... 

[mmattockx]

I still find shooting an arrow well over a mile to be a mind boggling achievement. The arrows Alan uses for that are ~10" long, made with skinny solid carbon fibre shafts, use razor blades for fletching and have a machined stainless steel nock. They look much more like darts than arrows. The bow draws something like 250# and they use a big shelf to overdraw the arrow to somewhere over a 20" draw length.


Mark

[Flem]

Well thats definitely impressive, but can he hit anything with that set-up? What does the target they shoot at look like?

[B-JS]

I got backpain today.
Had to string a 60" hybrid longbow with 105# without a Stringer.
10mm (0.4") Stack with 1,3mm (0.05") Glass.

[Longcruise]

I'd have trouble with that using a stringer.   

[Buemaker]

 

[Mad Max]

No target Flem

[Roy from Pa]

Man that could hurt:)

Converted my 4" metal bench vice over to a 6" x 3" wooden block vice padded with rubber....

Glued the riser on the bow today.

[Mad Max]

Where is the vice

Lookin good roy

[Roy from Pa]

On the work bench...

[kennym]

Rody, you put jast a little more hook on there and she will be a Corvette !   

[Roy from Pa]

Its gonna do 175 fps now wif a 10gpi arrah.

I had to slow them down cause the feathers were burning off b4 the arrow got to the target
and I was missing high...

And its a longbow not one of dem recurve thingahmajigs....

But I'll try more hook on next one just cause I wanna smoke the pants off ole Shreddys bows.

Plus this one is headed out west for a guy who never shot a stickbow, yet.

So he doesn't need the speed demon rody special,  yet...

[mmattockx]

I'd have trouble with that using a stringer.   

+1, that is a stout bow.


Mark

[Flem]

I think that could be called a bionic crossbow

[Roy from Pa]

Here ya go Maxi..

[Shredd]

  175...  Thats faster than a lot of glass bows out there...  Just goes to show you what a good design can do...  Good job Royster...   But she aint done yet...   

   If your gonna catch me you better be shootin that bow out of that corvette that Kenny mentioned doing a buck 20... 

[Mad Max]