HuntingNet.com Forums - View Single Post - ATA-DL Relationship
View Single Post
Old 10-31-2008, 05:33 AM
  #6  
PABowhntr
Boone & Crockett
 
PABowhntr's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Lehigh County PA USA
Posts: 12,157
Default RE: ATA-DL Relationship

Call me the black sheep of responders but I actually don't see as much of an issue with a long draw length and a short axle to axle length bow. I agree with what you posted as a general "rule" or reference....long draw archers generally shoot longer axle to axle length bows more accurately but then again so do short draw length archers.

My first short axle to axle length bow was a Hoyt Havoc circa earlier this decade. Since then I have lost count of the number of short axle to axle length bows I have owned. After shooting them almost exclusively for many years I really do not notice much of a difference in terms of shootability. Sure, I can more easily pick up a longer axle to axle length bow and shoot it accurately but I thinkthat other issues, in addition to the bow's axle to axle length, play just as much of a part, if not more so, in determining how comfortably the bow fits you as an individual.

Just my two cents.
PABowhntr is offline