I appreciate all the constructive and informative posts guys. I think anywhere else I might get my head chewed off for asking about a 6" BH hunting bow. With that in mind,allow me todig a little deeper.
ORIGINAL: TFOX
High reflex along with a short brace will makethe Vulcan a much less forgiving bow.
No, I have not shot the Vulcan but the goemetry does not lie.
I don't mean in any way to be a smart ass about this but is that sort of like the old automotive saying "there's no replacement for displacement"? Reason I ask is because I wonder if the following example can in some way relate - There was a time merely a decade ago when car companies, mainly domestic, were using 300 plus cubic inch (5.0 litre)engines to make~250 horses. This meant for naturally aspirated engines that were producing ~
50hp per litre... When all of a sudden, Honda developed a 1.8 litreengine that made 200hp. That translated to
111hp per litre whichtranslated to more thantwice the volumetric efficiency at less than half the displacement.
And I bring this up because I want to know if you guys think it's possible that with the bow technology we have today, that we can achieve the same performance(including forgiveness)with less brace height. From my understanding, Hoyt was able to keep string oscillation to a minimum with their String Suppression System which claims:
Hoyt’s innovative StealthShot String Suppression System (patent pending) substantially reduces noise and vibration for a dead-quiet and shock-free shot. The integrated StealthShot system features a carbon rod connected to a specially designed Limbsaver® Navcom™ unit that momentarily captures and suppresses the string when the bow is shot. StealthShot reduces string movement and oscillation by over 70% and totally eliminates “arm slap”, hand shock
Now from what I gather, and this is my guess so tell me if it's right- thatif a string is allowed to "bounce" back and forth after the shot, that movement could potentially play on the quality of the release of the arrow affecting accuracy. Not only that, forward movement of the string will momentarily shorten the bow's brace height. When this happens, any oscillation or vibration in the string would be magnified because of the shortened distance between the string and the rest. ??
So in essence, a 7" BH then becomes a 6 something and a 6" BH becomes a 5 something? However, if that's true, this is where Hoyt's string suppression system comes in to stop the string from moving forward. And if that's true then the Vectrix actually hasthe forgiveness that is closer to that of an 8" BH and the Vulcan actually has the forgiveness that is closer to that of a 7?
How much forward does the string actuallytravel during the shot anyway? Are we talkingsixteenths of an inch or quarters of an inch?