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Old 11-21-2003 | 07:06 AM
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Arthur P
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Default RE: bows with long draws?

For most folks with a long draw a long axle to axle length bow is needed....
I' ve got to second that! My compound draw length is 33.5" . On bows less than 40" axle to axle, the string angle took the peep sight a LONG ways away from my eye. I had to use the largest diameter peeps just to be able to see through them and they acted like target peeps in low light. Couldn' t see nothing. Maybe a No Peep would solve that problem. Never used one, myself.

Also, I' d have to have a nose like a collie in order to get a third anchor reference, touching the string to the tip of my nose.

So, unless you' ve got really good eyes, have the resources to pay out extra $$$ for something like the No Peep, or have a big honkin' schnozz, then I wouldn' t recommend looking at anything under 38" , and 40" would be even better.

My compound is a Hoyt ProTec, LX Pro limbs and Accuwheels (45" axle to axle. The XT2000 limbs would be closer to 40.). Martin has the Sceptor and Cougar Elite (if I wasn' t shooting Hoyt, I' d have one of those). I think BowTech has the Pro 40 in 32" . Not sure what, if anything, Mathews has in 32" . Darton, PSE and Onieda used to have 32" and might still. I haven' t checked their catalogs in ages.

Good luck, fellow knuckledragger.
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