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    • David Coulter
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        March 19, 2011 at 5:23 pm
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        #6667

        Hi Folks,
        I’m happy to say that I recently picked up my new Leon Stewart Slammer longbow, 62 inches, 46# @28.
        It took me a little bit to get used to it as I was shooting a recurve before. The recurve is a Browning Wasp, circa 1973, that I got for Christmas when I was in high school.
        Chalk it up to inexperience, since I just picked up the bow again two years ago and started to learn about tuning. It seemed that I was always fiddling, happily, with trying to get the arrows to fly just right.
        With the Slammer, I’m using the same arrows, 2016 alum. with @175 gr. heads, as with the recurve and they seem to fly just fine, no matter what I do. I’ve shot 150 gr. field points, 175 gr. field points, Judos from 160 to 175, Eskimos, Magnus two-blade vented, and Eclipse broadheads and they all seem to fly really well.
        Anyone have any insights on this? Is this typical recurve and longbow characteristics? Maybe a better recurve would have been easier to tune?
        In any case, I’m pleased as punch with the new bow. Thanks, dwc

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      • Homer
          March 19, 2011 at 10:00 pm
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          #53780

          From out here looking in I can only guess that if you never could get the Wasp to stay tuned, and the Slammer “won’t go out of tune,” maybe the Wasp has a slightly twisted limb or such, and your arrows, good luck, are right in the middle of acceptable spine range for the longbow. Most shooters say that recurves are “more forgiving” than longbows, but doesn’t seem the case here. If your Slammer a deflex-reflex? That design, as I understand it, sort of “spreads out” the bennies of a recurve and is in the process of utterly changing the old views on longbows being harder to shoot. Mebe another poster here can do more than educated guess. Homer

        • David Coulter
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            March 19, 2011 at 10:16 pm
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            #53789

            Hi Homer,
            I think the Wasp might have a very slight twist, as the string does not come exactly down the middle of limb on the top.
            The Slammer is a deflex-reflex. Once I got the hang of holding onto the bow with a tighter grip with a bit of palm-heel pressure I started shooting better with it. It was awkward to leave the high wrist hold I was used to with the recurve. When I picked up the bow Leon told me how to hold it and sure enough that’s the way. He also told me how to hold my recurve and it helped a lot with that, too.
            Thanks for tuning in. dwc

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