ORIGINAL: PABowhntr

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My take on this.....

You are talking about small differences in percentages as someone mentioned above. The brace height has to be compared to the specific draw length. A 5 inch brace height bow creates a 20.25 inch powerstroke for someone that has a 27 inch draw length but what percentage of the draw is the powerstroke? 75% in this case. Now take a 30 inch draw length with an 8 inch brac height. That would mean a 23.25 inch powerstroke and a 77.5 percentage. A slightly larger percentage means that you can't really compare the two just by adding or subtracting the same amount to both the brace height and draw length.

In other words, theoretically, a shorter brace height bow should be somewhat more forgiving for a shorter draw length archer but not drastically so....and not in equal proportions to the amount of draw length changed.

I have always believed that a shorter brace height is somewhat more critical to shoot not because of the time on the string but rather because of the increased distance. The longer distance means more of a chance for shooting errors to impact accuracy. Ofcourse, other factors such as riser geometry, limb angle, etc... also all play a part in this as it is difficult to really separate one factor from all of the others.

Hope this helps.