Yeah Dave, my backyard range is only 10m. I’ll let you know how it goes.

Well, I shot it at twenty metres and didn’t really see where it landed so went out to the target to have a look. When I got there I heard a thunk and there it was! Talk about slow…

Another remarkable feature was that it was point on target at 20m (it is a long shaft, the point is a lot further out there). So well and truly on the way down by 20m.

I guess the little bow was a little worn out by the weight of it all. I’d still be keen to see what could be achieved with a softer, low gpi shaft and something more like a 250 or 300gn head. Alas, its back to the longbow and some stiffer shafts 😀

Giggle, I was super impressed with everything about my little experiment except how mind bogglingly slow it was. Troy Breeding said in another thread he’d take quiet over fast any day, and it was certainly super quiet (for obvious reasons). I have some 70# sitka spruce shafts that are showing promise with a 300 grain point for my little bow. That’d work out to similar shaft stats you’ve given above. You’ve given me a little hope for my little bow!

I’d love to attempt some real world penetration with a setup like that. Maybe it’s time for a trip to the butcher 😀

Preston, if anyone could manage to shoot themselves in the back with a bow it would be me 😉

Etter, I did a little experiment the day I was out there shooting that whopper of an arrow. Once I had more or less figured out my ‘gap’ for that shaft, I shot the unfletched arrow using gap aiming at 20m. Then I moved a few metres to the left (so as to avoid any unconcious reference to the POA I just used) and shot an identical, fletched arrow instinctively (noting that my ‘instincts’ are not at all tuned to this bow/arrow combo).

My ‘bullseye’ in this shot is the white disc (the insert from a gatorade bottle cap) stuck on the coke bottle just left of the unfletched shaft.

Obviously instinctive shooting is going to require a lot more practice to have confidence, but if you gap, it’s just a matter of finding your point of aim at a few different distances and then an accurate judge of distance. With a bow/arrow combo like this you’d obviously need shorter intervals between your known Points of Aim. But I agree, for this little bow I’d be more comfortable with a lighter gpi setup that delivers a bit flatter trajectory 🙂