Compound bow - set up question
07-28-2008, 09:08 AM
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Giant Nontypical
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RE: Compound bow - set up question
Imagine a world with air, but no gravity. Your arrow would slow down, but never fall.
07-28-2008, 09:14 AM
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RE: Compound bow - set up question
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Then why do bowhunters use flu-flus when pheasant hunting?
Then why do bowhunters use flu-flus when pheasant hunting?
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How can you say that air resistance has no effect of the flight path of an arrow?
How can you say that air resistance has no effect of the flight path of an arrow?
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If that was true, you should be able to use Flu Flu fletch and Blazers at 80 yards and they would have the same flight path.
If that was true, you should be able to use Flu Flu fletch and Blazers at 80 yards and they would have the same flight path.
07-28-2008, 09:14 AM
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RE: Compound bow - set up question
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My question, again.....is...is the line thorugh the nocking point....the arrow tip....and the target at 20yds a straight, levelline.....and "compensation" made by the arrow drop beyond the 8yd intersection point?
My question, again.....is...is the line thorugh the nocking point....the arrow tip....and the target at 20yds a straight, levelline.....and "compensation" made by the arrow drop beyond the 8yd intersection point?
Again....it would seem, to me, that the line from the eye.....through the peep.......through the 20 yd pin.....to the spot at 20yds.....HAS to be "straight".
07-28-2008, 09:17 AM
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RE: Compound bow - set up question
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To SLOW the arrow down.
Because it doesn't. Air does not cause the arrow to fall to the ground. Gravity does.
That would be true in a world with air but no gravity. Just as I said in my earlier post. A slower arrow "feels" the effect of gravity in a shorter distance, but it is still ONLY gravity that causes the arrow to drop.
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Then why do bowhunters use flu-flus when pheasant hunting?
Then why do bowhunters use flu-flus when pheasant hunting?
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How can you say that air resistance has no effect of the flight path of an arrow?
How can you say that air resistance has no effect of the flight path of an arrow?
ORIGINAL: gzg38b
If that was true, you should be able to use Flu Flu fletch and Blazers at 80 yards and they would have the same flight path.
If that was true, you should be able to use Flu Flu fletch and Blazers at 80 yards and they would have the same flight path.
Air resistance has effect on arrow speed, not path. Air resistance slowing the arrow down allows gravity to pull it faster to earth. An object in motion equation comes into play.
07-28-2008, 09:18 AM
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RE: Compound bow - set up question
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OK let's imagine that scenerio. Why would it slow down if there was no gravity? Maybe because of air resistance? If it starts to slow down, would it continue to slow down to the point of stopping?
Imagine a world with air, but no gravity. Your arrow would slow down, but never fall.
07-28-2008, 09:21 AM
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RE: Compound bow - set up question
atlas I mean Badger girl is correct.
Air resistance has effect on arrow speed, not path. Air resistance slowing the arrow down allows gravity to pull it faster to earth. An object in motion equation comes into play.
Air resistance has effect on arrow speed, not path. Air resistance slowing the arrow down allows gravity to pull it faster to earth. An object in motion equation comes into play.
Good work Badger!
07-28-2008, 09:23 AM
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RE: Compound bow - set up question
If you draw a straight line from your nocking point to the 20 yard target, your broadhead/arrow point will not be in that straight line.
In other words.....if we drew a line from your nocking point through your arrow tip......would this line be perpendicular to the ground (again....assuming we were standing on perfectly level ground)?
07-28-2008, 09:25 AM
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RE: Compound bow - set up question
Thinking about that last question.......I suppose it would be level on "some" shots (according to what distance you were holding on).....and I also assume that distance would vary with each setup.
Make sense?
Make sense?
07-28-2008, 09:26 AM
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RE: Compound bow - set up question
Badger Girl, you seem to be schooled in physics. Care to comment on how many archer use KE in the strictestlaws of Physics? 
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