Greetings All,
So couriosity go the better of me and it was time to play...
When I first chrono'd Take Two, I averaged 182.6fps. 52#@29" with 9.55gpp (9.548gpp to be exact). My daughter Kassi would watch for the mark on the arrow to reach the front of the riser...
I decided to make sure I was hitting 29" and dug out a clicker...set it to the length of the arrow, grabbed the chrony again and hit the back yard. The average was a little slower, but not by much. Kas did good.
I then dropped the brace height from 7 3/16" to 6 15/16", weighed (still 52#@29"), and headed out to the back yard again. Average for the 10 shot series dropping a high and low averaged 184.9fps with 9.55gpp.
I even dug out an old fletch hunter release and shot it. I only shot three arrows as the bow didn't like the release much...190, 188.0, 187.8fps were what I achieved... The string has on some of my yarn silencers...I could step out and hunt with the bow tomorrow.
This was all done with the bow three feet from the front of the chrony. I'm really courious to see what this little bow would do @ 9gpp...
Back to the brace height. No more noise. The arrow still flew great (shot it quite a bit after the "testing" was over). The bow was dead in the hand as well.
I'm amazed that a few twists in the string grabbed me another 2+ fps without any illl effects on flight, noise, or accuracy... Have any of you seen this before?
Happy hunting,
Jason