What are the advantages of maxing your bow weight out?
04-03-2008, 02:44 PM
#22
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: North Dakota
Posts: 959
RE: What are the advantages of maxing your bow weight out?
ORIGINAL: bigbulls
Because a 70 pound limb has a specific spring rate. That is it's optimal rate of bend. That is where it was designed to have peak performance.
When a limb is shot at its max draw weight that limb is pre stressed, or pre bent, in a manner in which it was specifically designed to be stressed.
When you back out the limbs you are removing some of this pre bend in the limb so it can not perform in its optimal spring rate.
It's kind of likeleaf springsor truck. Limbs are basically large, flat springs made from fibers.
Those springs are designed to have a cerrtain ammount of weight and stress applied to them to get the best performance from thatspecific set of springs. If you have a spring that is designed to have 5000 pounds (70 pounds limbs)of compression to operate optimally and you are using them in a vehicle that only is able to apply 3000 (turned down to 60 pounds)on them then they are not going to give the driver a very smooth ride.
I hope i didn't just confuse everyone. [&:]
Because a 70 pound limb has a specific spring rate. That is it's optimal rate of bend. That is where it was designed to have peak performance.
When a limb is shot at its max draw weight that limb is pre stressed, or pre bent, in a manner in which it was specifically designed to be stressed.
When you back out the limbs you are removing some of this pre bend in the limb so it can not perform in its optimal spring rate.
It's kind of likeleaf springsor truck. Limbs are basically large, flat springs made from fibers.
Those springs are designed to have a cerrtain ammount of weight and stress applied to them to get the best performance from thatspecific set of springs. If you have a spring that is designed to have 5000 pounds (70 pounds limbs)of compression to operate optimally and you are using them in a vehicle that only is able to apply 3000 (turned down to 60 pounds)on them then they are not going to give the driver a very smooth ride.
I hope i didn't just confuse everyone. [&:]
04-03-2008, 03:13 PM
#23
Typical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2007
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RE: What are the advantages of maxing your bow weight out?
If you were to get two bows of the same model, one, a 70 pound bow backed down to 60 pounds and the other a 60 pound bow set properly at 60 pounds, using the same arrow the 60 pound bow will shoot a little bit faster than the 70 pound bow will that was backed down.
04-03-2008, 07:09 PM
#24
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 10,679
RE: What are the advantages of maxing your bow weight out?
Paul, i didn't say there weren't really good reasons to not shoot a bow at less than max draw weight because there are.
What i did was simply answer the question asked. Which was simply, What are the advantages of shooting a bow with the limbs set at their maximum draw weight?. Limbs are more efficient when shot this way plane and simple.
Regardless if a specific set of limbs are 71 pound limbs, 68 pound limbs, what ever. If they are flexing how they were optimally designed to flexthen they will perform better. Whether it is 1 fps in arrow speed or 8 fps in arrow speed.
What i did was simply answer the question asked. Which was simply, What are the advantages of shooting a bow with the limbs set at their maximum draw weight?. Limbs are more efficient when shot this way plane and simple.
Regardless if a specific set of limbs are 71 pound limbs, 68 pound limbs, what ever. If they are flexing how they were optimally designed to flexthen they will perform better. Whether it is 1 fps in arrow speed or 8 fps in arrow speed.
