Nope sylvan, because if you put your scale on the floor and pull up, its 4lbs off at peak wieght compared to the ceiling. Or if you put it on the wall and pull horizontially, you havemostly ahorizontial vector, and a slight vertical vector of force. Still peak weight is about 3lbs off of max peak wieght from hanging on the ceiling. Where the floor test is 4lbs.

Put the bow on the bow scale hanging on the ceiling and do not put any force on it. Your wieghing the bows wieght.

I don't know, you may be right. Because if the bow theoretically wieghted 70lbs and you hung it on teh scale itself, it would pull the bow down and peak out at 70lbs. Some reason I am having a hard time understanding this.