Great to see this new section here at PA. Flight shooting is a great part of archery, and especially bowyery. Traditionally flight shooting was considered a bowyers competition, and even though there is much more to it than just making the equipment, it is still a large part of it.
Anyway, I'd like to share some pictures and data on what I have been doing the last years. Horn bows have caught my interest, and I've been focusing on the turkish design. This is my fifth attempt at it, and finally things start to work reasonably well.
The bow is 65 pounds at 26 inches, and is 41 inches long between the nocks along the curves. The plotted draw force curve is an early measuring before a little adjusting and in a little colder weather. Some weeks ago I tested it in the shooting machine, and got the following results from a 26 inch draw:
193 grain arrow: 299 fps
236 grain arrow: 252 fps
323 grain arrow: 216 fps
545 grain arrow: 174 fps
At the annual Norwegian historical championship some weeks ago it managed to shoot 392 meters with 230 grain 25" arrows with parchment fletchings and about one inch overdraw in the siper. 2,7mm thick dacron string. That's my best so far, but only half the distance of what is possible...
