Went to Avatar on Sat. Wow, talk about Dances With Wolves meets Star Wars, and BTW Cameron, Costner called and wants his script back!
But anyway, the bows & arrows the blue no-nosed cat people were shooting kind of piqued my curiousity (so did the back hand two finger draw, but not enough to try it). BTW, how about them arrows! Talk about the Ashby Theory in action, wonder what the FOC/KE of those babies were?!!
But I digress... Winter is the time for fiddling and one of my current experiments is to see how many various sized alums I have on hand I can build to match spine and with any kind of luck, POI at 20 yards. Right now I'm messing with some 2314 shafts. I found that using Stu's Calculator (what a great tool), they spine out extremely close with 145 grain point and 2" longer BOP than my 28.5" draw. Prior to this, the longest arrow I've shot is 1.5" more than my draw, with most being 1".
Which brings me to the question (yeah, I took the long way around the barn, so sue me...). Anyone shooting arrows considerably longer than their draw, say 2" or more BOP) and has anyone fiddled with unconventional fletching like the 2 feathers at 180 degrees used in the movie?...