Homemade Bow Shooting Machine Demonstration

[RickBarbee]

The video is a touch over 12 minutes.

Sorry for the length, but I probably still left out some detail.

Enjoy.

Rick

[DRT]

My first compound wasn't that fast.

[RickBarbee]

My first compound wasn't that fast.

My old Martin Firecat was faster (by a lot).
But, it was around 100# draw with only a 605 grain arrow.

Rick

[DRT]

I shot an old Bear WT2. 2117 full length arrows, no idea the weight. But I shot it through a chrono once and I believe it was under 220. But that was 30 plus years ago. Pretty sure I was sober though.

[RickBarbee]

Many of those old recurves with arrows between 5 - 6 GPP would make your eyes bug out when you saw the speed they shot.

Only thing was finding one that could take the beating, and keep on ticking.

Rick

[RickBarbee]

I'm going to have to make a correction on the speed of this bow.
I didn't realize it at the time, but I had drawn the bow to 31.5" instead of 30.5".

Did a 3 shot test today, and that's when I caught my mistake.
at 30.5 she was 217/217/215.

Rick

[DRT]

That's good though, seeing how that inch makes that much difference.