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RE: How forgiving is a FORGIVING BRACE HEIGHT really?

PEAKRUT, it's Vectrix not Vetrix.:D:D:D

RE: How forgiving is a FORGIVING BRACE HEIGHT really?

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ORIGINAL: TFOX

Forgiveness will give you MORE than speed in the woods.The whole speed thing is blown way out of proportion.A 270 fps bow will only drop 1-2" more on a 45 yard target shot for 40 than a 300 fps bow.You only measure miss distance when using pins and not total drop.

I humbly retract my stance on the topic and on that note let me comment on the quote above. See, the problem is that in my specificsituation, I'm not weighing 270fps against 300fps. I'm actually weighing 240fps against 260fps.I was shooting a 27" Cybertec andnow have a Vectrix on order. After reviewing some info online it appears that I've been shooting 1" too long a DL for the last 2 yrs.I measure 65" in wing span so if you take that divided by 2.5 you get 26. A 26 inch DL already sets me back 48fps from ibo, then on top of that I'll be shooting6gpp instead of the ibo 5gpp. That's probably gonna set me back another 20fps. In the end, I'll still have an arrowthat will drop2 feet at 40yds(same as coming out of my Cybertec). This is why I erred on the side of flat trajectory over forgiveness.

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The 6" brace bow is much touchier than the 7" brace but that isn't the only disadvantage.The string clearance on your clothes will come into play also.

I did not even think about how that extra inch of string travel could prove disasterous. Thanks for mentioning it.

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ORIGINAL: drhntr178

Flinch, torque, drop your bow arm, etc. with the less forgiving bow and you may be off mark a couple inches. Do that with a short BH and you can miss by feet!

Help me understand this. I presume this is like the "short barrel - long barrel relation to accuracy" affect?

RE: How forgiving is a FORGIVING BRACE HEIGHT really?

Similar to short vs. long barrel, except, even at 300fps, you will have about30inches of drop on your "arch." Drop that speed down to something around 250, and you get about 44 inches of drop. The nice thing about speed is that if you misjudge distance 5 yds ona 40yd shot (shooting 300fps vs. 250 fps), you are still going to be close. I agree, the best of both worlds is speed and forgiveness, that is why I have said in another thread, the bow I'd buy if I were buying a new bow right now, would be a Vectrix XL. Because of the longer axle length, and the extra 1-1.5" braceheight over the Vulcan and "regular" Vectrix. Assuming the new Bowtech Guardian isn't going to have any LIMB problems, it might be the best bang for the buck, but that is yet to be determined.