DEFINING BOW PERFORMANCE;

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DEFINING BOW PERFORMANCE;

#1 Post by greybeard » Mon Mar 28, 2016 9:11 pm

This is an in depth article on bow performance by John Havard and Dryad Bows.

Enjoy the read.
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Re: DEFINING BOW PERFORMANCE;

#2 Post by GrahameA » Tue Mar 29, 2016 9:17 am

Morning All.

The article is good and an easy read. However, the reader should make an effort differentiate between between opinion and fact.
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Re: DEFINING BOW PERFORMANCE;

#3 Post by cadet » Tue Mar 29, 2016 2:53 pm

Interesting article. Lot's of good stuff, but plenty of advertorial and some stuff not really addressed, too.
The other part of this is of course is that trying to wring every last bit of performance from a bow isn't necessarily why some of us love it; there's a thrill for some of us in carefully selecting a tree or board and using our own hands and wits to craft a bow, then using it to flick an arrow into something.

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Re: DEFINING BOW PERFORMANCE;

#4 Post by rodlonq » Tue Mar 29, 2016 5:47 pm

Good article Daryl.

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