Fast flight strings?
02-26-2007, 05:44 PM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: MA
Posts: 430
Fast flight strings?
What are your opinions on them? I ordered one with my longbow last spring. It has worked fine for me and I have had some compliments on my bow, I guess it shoots pretty fast for a 45# longbow. I don't know if it is just the design of the bow, or if the fast flight does make a big difference. I have heard they can be tough on bows, but my bow was made to accept fast flight strings.
02-26-2007, 05:47 PM
#2
Fork Horn
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RE: Fast flight strings?
if the bow was designed to accept FF, then by all means, go ahead and use it.
I don't know enough about bow design to tell you why FF-compatible bows seem to be faster, but then again, it's not my job, man...
I don't know enough about bow design to tell you why FF-compatible bows seem to be faster, but then again, it's not my job, man...
02-26-2007, 07:42 PM
#3
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Mississippi USA
Posts: 15,296
RE: Fast flight strings?
FF type materials aren't nearly as elastic as dacron, so they put more of the bow's energy behind the arrow rather than waste it in string ocillation (one theory). Another is they are so much stronger than dacron that you can make a string with fewer strands, therefore lighter, and pick up speed.
Personally, a few fps doesn't mean squat to me. I like the increased durability, lack of stretch/creep, and reduced handshock they offer. I've been shooting the same bow for 10-12 years now--LOTS of tournament shooting, practice, playing, and even a shot here and there hunting. It's never had a dacron string on it, and she shoots as good today as the day I got it--and I'm the type that can tear up an anvil with a cotton ball.
Funny thing is, if a bow fails and has anything other than a dacron string on it, usually the string gets the blame. When one fails with a different type string, something else is to blame. I've had and seen a LOT more bows fail with a dacron string. The only two I know of personally were old bows (not made for FF) that the tips sawn off by unpadded, small diameter strings.
Won't hurt anything to use dacron on a FF rated bow, but I don't see the point in it myself.
Chad
Personally, a few fps doesn't mean squat to me. I like the increased durability, lack of stretch/creep, and reduced handshock they offer. I've been shooting the same bow for 10-12 years now--LOTS of tournament shooting, practice, playing, and even a shot here and there hunting. It's never had a dacron string on it, and she shoots as good today as the day I got it--and I'm the type that can tear up an anvil with a cotton ball.
Funny thing is, if a bow fails and has anything other than a dacron string on it, usually the string gets the blame. When one fails with a different type string, something else is to blame. I've had and seen a LOT more bows fail with a dacron string. The only two I know of personally were old bows (not made for FF) that the tips sawn off by unpadded, small diameter strings.
Won't hurt anything to use dacron on a FF rated bow, but I don't see the point in it myself.
Chad
