Raedwald
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I'm kind of wondering about getting an AFB (currently shoot a hunter), possibly when ready to "up the poundage".
Then again, it's so long since I last shot, I may just start again with a flatbow!
But, what arrows?
The various "tables" I've seen for wooden arrows give spine weights for LongBow and Recurve - so for AFB it's "guesswork and extrapolation".
Realising that every bow is different, and (as with my hunter) some bows shoot better a higher poundage of spine weight than the tables might suggest, they would give a starting point.
I kind of assume that, because an AFB is a "centre shot" bow, the spine weigh should be similar to that for a recurve of the same draw weight rather than that for a "shoot-round" longbow.
But is this a reasonable assumption to have made? Am I right?
I'd appreciate thoughts on this.
Then again, it's so long since I last shot, I may just start again with a flatbow!
But, what arrows?
The various "tables" I've seen for wooden arrows give spine weights for LongBow and Recurve - so for AFB it's "guesswork and extrapolation".
Realising that every bow is different, and (as with my hunter) some bows shoot better a higher poundage of spine weight than the tables might suggest, they would give a starting point.
I kind of assume that, because an AFB is a "centre shot" bow, the spine weigh should be similar to that for a recurve of the same draw weight rather than that for a "shoot-round" longbow.
But is this a reasonable assumption to have made? Am I right?
I'd appreciate thoughts on this.