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Offline DC

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Nomenclature
« on: February 18, 2015, 02:04:04 pm »
When you're talking about bows and use R/D or D/R do you start with the handle? Would a D/R have a deflexed handle and reflexed tips?
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Offline TimBo

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Re: Nomenclature
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2015, 02:14:17 pm »
R/D would be deflex at the handle, reflexed tips. 
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: Nomenclature
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2015, 02:18:15 pm »
RD and DR are the same to me. Cant see any reason a fella would reflex his handle and deflex his tips.
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Offline PatM

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Re: Nomenclature
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2015, 02:29:22 pm »
 Both the same thing.
  The true examples of bows with reflexed grips and deflexed tips or limbs are generally classified by culture and given more descriptive names..
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Offline TimBo

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Re: Nomenclature
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2015, 02:42:01 pm »
Well, rats...that's what I get for answering first.  I hadn't ever seen anyone use the term D/R, but it made me think of a gullwing-type bow.
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Offline PatM

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Re: Nomenclature
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2015, 02:46:02 pm »
You'll probably find just as many if not more using D/R to define a typical modern bow. Seems to make sense to start naming features from the center out.
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Offline Badger

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« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2015, 03:00:56 pm »
  I have always thought that D/R would be better than r/d but everyone seems to recognise r/d for some reason.
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Offline Springbuck

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« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2015, 03:29:34 pm »
Yeah, the name just stuck.      Even harder for me to understand is how people describe the curve.  Someone will say "I gave it 2" of deflex and 3" of reflex."    So to one guy that means the tips are an inch ahead of the handle, and the other guy means 3" ahead of the handle.
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: Nomenclature
« Reply #8 on: February 18, 2015, 06:07:25 pm »
Im a 1" guy myself.
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Offline PatM

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Re: Nomenclature
« Reply #9 on: February 18, 2015, 06:11:26 pm »
Quote from: PEARL DRUMS on February 18, 2015, 06:07:25 pm
Im a 1" guy myself.
Not sure if bragging...
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: Nomenclature
« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2015, 06:51:50 pm »
Don't act like your some kind of a 3" man Pat, I know better.
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Offline missilemaster

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Re: Nomenclature
« Reply #11 on: February 18, 2015, 07:07:59 pm »
I like D/R. To me a bow starts at the handle and goes out from there. But its not a hill to die on.
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Re: Nomenclature
« Reply #12 on: February 18, 2015, 07:38:36 pm »
I used to call them D/R but everyone else called them R/D so I quit
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Offline Traxx

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Re: Nomenclature
« Reply #13 on: February 18, 2015, 08:53:15 pm »
D/R and R/D are not the same.In fact they are the exact opposite.The term,R/d for the popular style today,is misused and often by those,who should know better.
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Offline PatM

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« Reply #14 on: February 18, 2015, 09:22:55 pm »
 They are the same in the sense that arguing about which part gets preference in the naming process is fruitless at this point.
 When people use either term  they are almost certainly talking about the same thing.

 
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