One with ' Faux' snakeskin backing.

[bigbob]

Knocked this one out to have at hand at club shoots etc for people to try . Red gum / silver Ash riser with phenolic accents Belly lams are Red Elm with 'boo cores. weight is 34# @ 28'' and its 66 NTN.The grip is styled in the popular 'palm swell ' type. Most people with small hands seem to prefer such a grip. String is astroflite by Steve of Wallace woods, and it will have a 'roo hide arrow plate and string keeper.

[Stickbow Hunter]

Should be a good bow for people to try their hand at a longbow Bob.

Jeff

[bigbob]

yeah Jeff taking it out to our club tomorrow for some people to try. With the trad peg now in ABA at a maximum around 25m or so there is no need for big poundage bows in these events.

[Stickbow Hunter]

With the trad peg now in ABA at a maximum around 25m or so there is no need for big poundage bows in these events.

I would still use my hunting bow as that is what I hunt with. Shooting a field course was always just practice for hunting for me.

Jeff

[bigbob]

totally agree with that logic Jeff. makes sense to keep up to speed with the same bow, but a lot of new archers don't seem to be into hunting and the lighter poundage means they can shoot all day without being tired.

[GrahameA]

Hi Bob.

An opinion and I have no data to back this up.

40lb (or close to it) efficient Longbows appears to be optimum for many archers. At that load the release is clean and the arrows have acceptable velocity for many without the Archer suffering from fatigue.

[Gringa Bows]

lookin good Bob

[bigbob]

Hi Bob.

An opinion and I have no data to back this up.

40lb (or close to it) efficient Longbows appears to be optimum for many archers. At that load the release is clean and the arrows have acceptable velocity for many without the Archer suffering from fatigue.

In my observations . for target archery your conjecture on optimum poundage is very close to the mark,but obviously for some one who hunts a lot it would not be of much benefit to use a lighter bow on the range compared to their hunting bow.