Crazy Longbow Picture

[two4hooking]

Here is a screen shot from below as I was shooting yesterday.  Amazing how the string reacts....you would not know it.  
 

te bow is a Schulz Tembo with 15 strand B50 and is whisper quiet and smooth.

Greg

[culleng]

Wow that looks like the string broke.

[Fanto]

this was an ordinary shot? not a broken string?

crazy

I have seen this same thing in some pics a friend of mine took. It is crazy. It makes you wonder how the string ever stays on the bow?

Bisch

[David Mitchell]

WOW, Greg, that is an amazing picture.  I guess that shows why you need to have the string loops fit really well, huh?

[TJK68]

Man that is CRAZY!!!!!

[two4hooking]

Here is the full vid:

 

[VictoryHunter]

That is really cool!

[joe ashton]

wow!!

[snakebite]

Thats crazy.

[mikebiz]

If I didn't see the video I wouldn't believe that the string would react like that.  It truly is crazy.  Thanks for the post.

[awbowman]

Are you shooting too light of an arrow?

[Goshawkin]

Now I know why I wear an armguard!   :eek:  

Be neat to take some pics with other FF string materials and see if there is a difference. I wonder if that contributes to the b-50,
"Booooiiiiinnnnng"

[Bladepeek]

I'm with Goshawkin - I'd love to see a video with the same bow and same arrow, but with a lighter, FF string. I've seen some pretty wild video's of string actiion before, but that one really takes first place. I do know that I had a longbow that smacked the daylights out of my forearm on every shot. I sold the bow, but later bought a very similar bow in left hand which happened to have a FF string on it and experienced no problems.

I know - different bow, different arm, possibly improved shooting form, but it still would be interesting, (if your bow is FF capable) to see a comparison.

Thanks for posting this one!

[two4hooking]

Arrow BH combo was around 630 grains at about 58 pounds draw.  I would assume since B50 stretches more there might be even more pronounced reactions as there is less give with FF...

I may have to make up a FF string and try it sometime....

I can tell you B50 is quieter out of this bow.

[CatSplat]

What did you take the video with? If you used an iPhone or similar, the sensor used can cause pretty crazy effects when filming fast-moving objects. I've taken 400FPS and 1200FPS high-speed videos of my bows being fired and the strings never looked anything like that.

[Archie]

I would think that is impossible...?

How could a string have those types of bends in it if it is still stretched out by the bow?  Seems like it must be a video effect such as was suggested earlier.

[two4hooking]

OK, I found the skinny FF string the bow was shipped with and recreated the shot:

 

Full Vid:
 

[CatSplat]

OK, now I'm totally convinced that effect is purely caused by the camera's sensor. Look at the limb at the upper left of the shot - since it's moving, it's subject to the same sensor aberration and looks totally kinked.

[Zradix]

YEP...weird camera science going on.

there is no possible way a non-stretch string can be that "loose" while the bow is fairly straight....

kinda like the ol' rubber pencil trick.