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08-11-2005 | 12:15 PM

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Boone & Crockett

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From: Mississippi USA

RE: Fast Flight?

Shoot, I'd offer, but I just don't trust the stuff. I don't know, but I think he made that string that cut itself--the fellow that told me about it was a "fan" of his.

The braid was definately the problem. The material itself was a Dyneena and Carerra (not sure I spelled that right)--basically a braided imitation of 450+ (except 450+ hasDyneema and Vectran). The initial stretch seemed to be a killer, but I also had some tell me that it just never settled in--could have been the way the strings were made.

I know exactly what you mean with the old Chineese finger traps--we'd get them at the fair when we were kids. I use that illustration when folks ask how a flemish string stays together with no knots or braids--lol.

Lee Robinson did some testing with the stuff, and along with the aggravation of trying to get the correct string length, he found the speed increase to be very little over dacron, and thedurablilty wasnot on par with other high performance materials, so he just quit messing with it.

I did some research on it, talked with Ray Brown at BCY about braided materials, and decided it wasn't worth my time figuring out. It seemed to be a "hot" product, but only for a very short time. I reckonit went the way of B-75 and PENN 66......man, I got calledeverything but honest and intelligent over my comments on those two materials.[:@] I'd really like the opportunity to tell some of those guys "I TOLD YOU SO!" over that.[8D] I guess they got the point when their strings broke without any warning. Funny thing though--not one of them ever apologized..........

Chad

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