Don Brown holds a handful of flight shooting records.. among them:
[align=left]Unlimited Field Bow-(Hunting Bow) 611 yards, 2 ft, 5 inches[/align][align=left][/align][align=left]Unlimited Longbow 408 yards, 1 foot, 4 inches[/align][align=left][/align][align=left]and [/align][align=left][/align][align=left]Unlimited Recurve 1,252 yards, 10 inches[/align][align=left][/align][align=left]http://www.usarchery.org/files/06_Flight_National_Regular_Records.pdf[/align][align=left][/align][align=left] how do they get that much distance????? [/align][align=left][/align]
I don't know much about flight shooting, but here's what little I have read about. One, some shooters use VERY heavy draw weights (Don was one of those). Arrow weights can be very light, at least in some classes. A good tail wind helps a bunch. Release is very important, as is holding your bow at just the right angle for optimum distance. And of course bow performance plays a role, but it's not always a determining factor. Think it was last year a world record was set with a stock Martin bow.
Chad
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also the 33 kg compound shot farther than the 40kg compound?
seems to me like not many attempts are made at these records...and thats why they are so inconsistent.
i see alot of the same last names in the book and the some of the same dates,thats kindof why i think there arent many attempts at it.
They are not inconsistent , what is inconsistent might be the gear, long flight is achieved with very short bows, but you must shoot the arrows with small vanes usually 2" vanes, if you go to 3' or 4" vanes you will not achieved the same results.
I have a bow I made a statistic recurve that is 48" shoots #41 (80+LBS)@ 28 and I shot consistent 335 to 350.
There no longer places I can shoot that distance so I stopped trying to break records.
But it is all true.
a 33 KG bow is over a 65LB Bow.
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I don' think there's that many people dedicated to the sport. For one, how many folks have acess to a 1,000 yard stretch of flat, wide-open terrain? In at least some classes, with the heavy draw weights and light arrows, a bow's life isn't going to be very long. Then you have some very specialized bows that are good for nothing but flight shooting. Seems to me it would take a decicated individual, with plenty of time and enough money, to get to any level of proficiency. I don't think there's that many folks who care to have their name in a book because they got an arrow to fly X-yards.
There's an article in Primitive Bowhunter about flight shooting--think it may still be on the stands. I need to re-read it and get back to this.
Chad
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"We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."-- Theodore Roosevelt
A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left. Ecclesiasties 10:2
The last four letters in American..........I Can
The last four letters in Republican........I Can
The last four letters in Democrats.........Rats
fly far how?
