I have a low poundage (38#) draw bamboo backed longbow and have difficulty shooting over any distance greater than 50yds (excessive elevation problems) so a club colleague suggested restringing it with fast flight instead of the rather thick dacron string it has at the moment. Now it has been said to me by more than one person who knows a good deal about longbows that I should not use a double loop string otherwiswe there is a chance I could break the bow. Whilst obtaining a flemish looped string in fast flight is not difficult I cannot see why the end loops of an otherwise indentical string would make enough difference to cause damage to the bow or not. The bow has horn nocks if that make any impact on the reasoning.
Can anyone offer an explanation? Is it one of these things that happened once for reasons unknon so it is now accepted wisdom that it must be true in all cases.
I used to own a beautiful Colt SAA reveolver in 44-40 and I was warned that the primers back out on the cases (44-40 was a more powerful round than the 45 long colt that was more common). The story had some truth to it but only when applied to balloon head copper cases not made since the 1880's. Is it the same with the bowstring?
Can anyone offer an explanation? Is it one of these things that happened once for reasons unknon so it is now accepted wisdom that it must be true in all cases.
I used to own a beautiful Colt SAA reveolver in 44-40 and I was warned that the primers back out on the cases (44-40 was a more powerful round than the 45 long colt that was more common). The story had some truth to it but only when applied to balloon head copper cases not made since the 1880's. Is it the same with the bowstring?