Excellent info Chad. Thats exactly what I was wondering.

A guy at Gila bows or Acme bows said his hickory's are just as fast as any laminated bow. But after talking to some bowyers at a show, they said thier selfbows won't have the performance of my laminated bow. I like the speed of my laminated.

Also, I pulled back several from ash, to maple, to hickory and several more, and was surprise to see them just as smooth draw as my laminated. One guy did tell me when shooting selfbows, I need to always keep the limbs in motion, or almost snap shoot them. he said wood can have memory and holding a bow back 2 or 3 seconds before shootingis not good. I never heard that before. Have you?