Tuning frustration
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Please keep hunting posts to Traditional Bow Hunting. No canned or high fence hunts or stories allowed. Please be respectful of fellow members and helpful to those with questions. Treat others like you like to be treated. There is a Japanese word that I try and model my life after.
GAMAN: patience..dignity..restraint.
Re: Tuning frustration
let me guess, you lash a boulder onto the end to achieve the correct dynamic spine.
Nothing clears a troubled mind like shooting a bow.
Re: Tuning frustration
Used to shoot heavy bows until just a couple of years ago.
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Captainkirk
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Re: Tuning frustration
Nope. I shoot the same out of my 45's, Dave.Flemish Dave wrote: ↑Wed Apr 25, 2018 2:51 pmI am always puzzled with how high the shafts you all use. I have 40 to 45 pound bows and use 40 to 45 pound shafts. Am I the only one with shafts this light??
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Re: Tuning frustration
Don't worry guys, this old archer has several tricks up his sleeve.
And remember, there's not been a horse that could never be rode, and there's not been a cowboy that couldn't be throwed.
And remember, there's not been a horse that could never be rode, and there's not been a cowboy that couldn't be throwed.
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Re: Tuning frustration
Dave it all depends on spine needs. Heavier heads, the shaft lengths, amount of cut on the bows riser, preferred brace height and bow weights, and believe it or not just plain personal shooting habits/form all can make things vary in shaft spine needs by a bunch.Flemish Dave wrote: ↑Wed Apr 25, 2018 2:51 pmI am always puzzled with how high the shafts you all use. I have 40 to 45 pound bows and use 40 to 45 pound shafts. Am I the only one with shafts this light??
For a 45 lb bow, 28 inch shaft, I need a 70-75 or 75-80 depending on which set up I chose but my head is 300+ grains. And mind You, this bow isn't even cut to center and is well before it. The same set up on a center cut or beyond center may well require an 80 or 90 lb spine.
Those spine numbers listed on shafts, are based off of 125 gr heads at 28" for center cut bows. So a 45lb bow at 28" with a center cut and 125gr head would indeed shoot around a 45lb spine shaft well.....thats in theory and a generalization, but would hold true in large part.... only testing would let you know for sure though.
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Re: Tuning frustration
The silencers on the D-97 did the trick."Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much." ~ Joni Eareckson Tada
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That brought em in line eh? Good to hear. What's the weight on those silencers?
Re: Tuning frustration
I don't know the weight but I think it just slows the string down a slight bit.
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