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Old 05-02-2005 | 02:22 PM
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Default RE: question on axle to axle length

I would not recommend any particular bow. It's the wrong thing to do.

ATA, brace height, amount of reflex---none one of these in and of themselves makes a bow more accurate. It's more a combination of all of them, plus drawlength. It doesn't matter what any of the other ones are. If you have a long drawlength then you have to make compromises in all those factors. It all has to fall together.

It's no secret that the longer tha ATA, higher the brace, and less reflex the more accuracy POTENTIAL a bow has in the hands of a shooter. And the more FORGIVENESS potential the bow has.

ewolf said it in a short manner. The best shooters are looking for accuracy. That's why they shoot longer ATA, higher brace, etc. And also needed to be considered is what is accuracy? It's different for different people. Pie plates at 20 yards is plenty good for those who don't know and don't want to know what accuracy is. Then you get idiots like me that can shoot less than 2" groups on a good day and still don't consider this the greatest. So you have to define in your own mind what accuracy means to you.

I will say this. Get you a 32" bow with a 7" brace height, that weighs about 3lbs and you will never see how accurately you could shoot. I have one of each. One is 32" with a 9 3/8" brace. The other is 38" with a 6 1/2" brace. Both bows weigh in excess of 5 1/2 lbs. The longer one is more accurate in my hands even with the short brace, somewhat because my draw is only 27".
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