RE: Shorter ATA Bows?
Well, I am told the current bow is 29 inch draw and it just touches the tip of my nose perfectly. I will have to measure it obviously to know for sure what it is set at. I would probably be better served by someone other than my wife measuring my arm span as well since she is just a wee bit shorter than me and had a real hard time. Also, to be honest I am more arm than chest and back in that measurement as I am not a heavy built guy. That is probably why the formula fails for somepeople is it can't take into account how long peoples arms are and how wide their backs are.
That all being said I obvioulsy am open to not being a 29 and will probably tweak and mess around with my drawlength over the next 30 years or so everytime I buy a bow because there really is no standard of how the draw is determind on a sale bow. The Cam on the Darton is adjustable down and up quite a bit and that was another reason I bought it because we could experiment with draw length a little bit. As far as I can tell though it is anchoring perfectly and that peep is always right where I need it to be and I am shooting pretty darn good with it.
A lot of guys taller than me are shooting 31 inch bows around here but some are pulling away from them now because they are just to hard to shoot. The only time they say they miss them is when hunting in a ground blind. Now other people look at me like I'm crazy when I told them I stayed away from a couple bows because they were microbows becasue they couldn't ever imagine going back.
Edit: Turns out I am a moron. On closer inspection the bow is set at 28.5.