Ok Chad close your ears. Just got my new Selway Lil Magnum longbow 62" , 57# @ 29" , 5 lam dymondwood riser (cool multicolor), canarywood limbs with bamboo cores, and sheep horn nocks. The canarywood is really cool, with reds and yellows. This bow is downright awesome. I did the following testing tonight for speed. Bow has Dynaflight 97 string, 1 brass nock, no silencers. The arrow shot was an Arrow Dynamic Traditional, 31" , 3 - 5" shield cut Tru Flight feathers. I shot 10 shots with a 125 grain point and 10 shots with a 175 grain point. Arrow weights were 505 and 575 grains respectively. Average speed for the 505 arrows was 203.7 fps (46.5 ft-lbs KE)and for the 555 arrows 198.7 fps(48.7 ft-lbs KE) The bow is super smooth and quite. My digital camera just broke. I' ll post pictures as soon as I can.

The big showdown will be when my new Crusader comes in...Chad any word???

Wow CT, sounds like it smokes. Thats pushing them along pretty darn good. Hope you enjoy yet another new toy.
Cant wait to see pics of that baby.

meaning no disrespect CT, but you need a new Chronograph. Are you shooting through it as you would hunting, or as if you were flight shooting? The maximum obtainable speed from a stickbow and the " hunting speed" are two distinctly different things. Sorry, but an AVERAGE speed of over 200fps with 8+ grains/lb just ain' t happening with anybody' s longbow.

John,

Don' t know how to shoot any way but how I hunt. I used the same form, stance, anchor point etc. I was very careful. Even made a couple checks of my draw length just to make sure it was 29" and I wasn' t overdrawing. I shot the same arrow 10 times then took an average. The numbers that I got were similiar to what the bowyer got. I was amazed when he told me how fast the bow was, so I wanted to do an independent test. I used the excuse of helping my 9 year old do a science experiment on KE to get a chrono[>:] The bowyer told me that he was extremely pleased with the bamboo and canarywood limbs and that he plans on making a few more. A dealer contacted me as he heard about the bow and wanted some pictures and info. He had done some tests on a similiar model with different limbs and was impressed with the speed and smoothness of the bow. Gordy stated that this particular limb combo was just awesome. I' m going to do some more testing tonight with different arrow weights and a couple other bows. I' ll post the results. Don' t know what to say but the speed is real

The following are the results of my speed test:

505 grain arrow, 29" draw, 57#: 203.7 fps
540 grain arrow, 30" draw, 60#: 199.6 fps (AMO)
555 grain arrow, 29" draw, 57#: 198.7 fps
570 grain arrow, 29" draw, 57#: 192.0 fps

I was reading of some guy who was testing traditional korean longbows with a kind of overdraw like thing that they used to put on thier bows. Made of bamboo I think. He was getting speeds faster than 200fps, so I know it' s possible. Congrats on the new bow.

Thanks.

Hey CT, what kind of speeds were you getting out of your Crusaders? Just curious. Mine seems pretty darn fast, but I dont have a chrono.

Don' t know. Didn' t have a Chrono at that time. Waiting on my new Crusader from Chad. As soon as it comes....hint, hint, hint, Chad, I' ll do a chrono test, but yes I bet it' s pretty fast.