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New Bow Day 💕

@archery

#archery #Bogensport

I got into archery cause my friend got my husband and all my other friends hooked. My friend and I happen to be the only lefties in our friend group. Last year, he got a new bow and generously gave me his Bear bow so I could give archery a try.

Starting out was pretty rough. My draw weight was 7-10# and it was hilarious attempting to aim at 45 yard targets. But I got really into it and this summer, I upgraded an Altus with 43# draw! Had to celebrate with a proper group pic at the range.

For anyone new to the hobby and not sure they can do it with their noodle arms, you absolutely can! Just gotta believe and crank that weight up slowly!

Hoyt Altus 42#

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I am very excited, I just bought a new Hoyt Altus (weird name IMO but whatever) because my shoulders is not what they used to be, my old bow is getting to be a bit much for me. Also, I just felt like a new bow and the Altus is a beauty.****

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Anyway, on to my question: I've been shooting 340 spine carbon arrows out of a 1999 Hoyt Raider set to around 65#(Used the raider for some years, then stopped shooting for 10 years or so, started up again 4 months ago). The altus is pulling 42#. My draw length is 31", so I have LONG arrows. (76 cm or so) My question is: Can I continue using my current arrows? I guess they might be a bit stiff, but I ain't no Levi Morgan, if it hit somewhere in the red at 15m I am quite happy. (I am hoping this will improve with the lighter bow) The point is I don't care (yet) about perfect arrows, I want to shoot more so I can concentrate and work on my form and process with a bow I can handle better.****

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I guess I want to know if the new bow will fire the old stiffer arrows with reasonable accuracy without damaging the bow?****

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What spine would be correct for this bow at my draw length? My wife uses 400 spine on her 35 or so pound bow, but her DL is very short. On a long arrow, the 400 might be too floppy?****

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Thanks!

But more inportantly, it was a nice round. I felt relaxed and it just felt good.

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The rising star from Lancaster, Pennsylvania looks to become the first American to win Olympic gold in archery since 1996. She could become the first American woman to claim an individual medal since 1976, when Luann Ryon won gold in Montreal.

I'm looking for a source of product status ect. Specifically AAE products at the moment, but preferably more universal than that. Does anyone know of a blog or other source, that congregates this info?

Background (rant) for asking:

At present I'm looking for vanes for my target recurve kid. Got told by the gurus at the range/club, that flex fletch ffp 187 was a good choice, so I ordered ffp 187 no-prep. Just to get an email back from the local shop, that ffp 187 no-prep was discontinued. And they suggested AAE wav, gas pro naca 200 performance (or spin wings, but the coaches don't want us to go for spin wings at the present)

OK, fine, I can see that JVD (my local shop's wholesaler) only carries one color of ffp 187 no-prep now. But then another kid at the club was shooting AAE hybrid shield 185, and all of a sudden those are being discontinued as well. So I've tried ordering AAE wav ... to the be told by the same gurus what wav was probably also discontinued. But I can't find any announcements, just dwindling stock at the wholesaler level.

I don't know much about archery, but I know that I don't want to fletch a dozen shafts, just to then learn that once the clicker-side vanes are used up, then we're SOL.

I don't want to spend a fortune and so I'm deciding to do classic recurve over olympic since it's much more cheap. What do you guys recommend to try out? The closest archery place has this kit for $300, should I go with it or pick and choose other stuff individually to start out?

https://www.htarchery.com/products/recurve-bow-kit

If money wasn't an issue, what ILF riser would you get for olympic recurve?

This is both meant as a thought experiment, but also as me picking your brains as a starting point for picking a new riser for someone.

Personally I like the Wiawis integrated dampeners of the ATF-DX or Meta DX. And the insert in the ATF-DX fitting, so you don't ruin the entire riser if you're stringing it wrong, does have some appeal.

But what do you think? Any Gillo fans here? Anyone want to try convincing the rest of us that formula is a superior fitting, and that we should tie the knot with Hoyt?

Hello archers! I learned the very basics of archery in my early youth on a very basic fiberglass youth bow. While still very young, I picked up a second hand compound bow.

Somewhere along the lines, life got in the way, and I dropped the sport. In my middle years, I am trying to pick up the sport again. I see posts here about Olympic Recurve and Barebow shooting.

I know that I can simply google or YouTube a quick answer, but I wanted to start a discussion here about the differences between bows and their uses.

For instance, I inherited my stepfather's wooden recurve hunting bow. I have always known that "style" to be a recurve. What makes an Olympic recurve bow different?

I’m still researching recurves, recurves accessories, and proper recurve shooting sequences before I buy anything.

I’m currently looking at making arrows for recurves and it appears that a lot of recurve vanes use stick on adhesives vs the cement fletching glue I’m used to seeing on compound arrows.

Many people seem to swear on them but I can’t help but think that stick on fletchings have to come off randomly through out the year.

I shot compound for probably 10 years, I know a bit of compound archery because my dad is friends with a professional archer.

I never did recurve though and I’m looking at getting into it because it looks more challenging. I have most of the parts I want spec’d out and I see a lot of people recommend getting a Beiter button.

I looked into it and I didn’t really get a direct answer on what does, based off of appearances it looks like it just pushes the arrow where you want it to keep it centered but I’m not 100% sure.

My 10 year old and I were recently gifted bows. His has a listed weight of 25-40#, mine is 55-70#. What does it mean that it's a range?

I'm reaching out to get ideas for a tear down, portable backstop that will fit in a pickup bed and can be assembled reasonably quickly by one person.

Not a target or target stand, that's already taken care of. But not all the places I've set up have a large enough area to negate the need for a backstop.

Primary users will be beginners drawing recurve bows up to but not exceeding 30#, with occasional, more proficient users demonstrating with recurves ~45#.

Just wanted to show off my beauty, that's it :)

Hate to see an empty community... So what are you people shooting? Where? For how long?