16 strands is overkill--lol. I shoot 14 strands on my 66# longbow, 10 strands on my 65# selfbow. Dynaflight '97 is about 125# test per strand.

Normally I don't like the feel of a tiny string, but I needed to get all I could out of the selfbow, just so it's notas radical a change switching between it and my longbow at a tournament. I do pad the loops to 18 strands.

Chad