Last week we had a small flight competition along with a traditional clout shoot. No strict classes or rules, just see who shoots an arrow from a wooden bow the longest way.
The weather could not have been better, moderate wind and sunny (first nice spring weekend here in the Netherlands!)
Lately I have been working on a few flightbows and some new arrows (Thanks Tuomo;-)). Finished an ipe/boo mollegabet style bow just in time so I decided to try it at the competition without ever shooting it before.
So my previous personal best was 280 meters (306 yards) with a 55 pound mulberry flatbow and I was hoping to go past 300 meters with this one.
So I shot two spruce arrows and one purpleheart. The purpleheart was too weak and went off to the right but the spruce arrow went 349 meters! (381 yards)
I could not have been happier with the result! Working towards some new personal flight records all winter and got it at the first shoot
A friend of mine managed to persuade a land owner to use his field for flightshooting so we also have a place to test out the other bows and arrows we are working on.
Some specs of the bow and pics:
The bows length is about 60" ntn and draws about 70@26. Glued it up as a moderate rd and it kept it's shape really well. Started off with a little longer levers but they where too unstable so I cut an inch off each to fix that.
String is 6 strand fastflight so that helped a lot I guess
The arrow is spruce and is 26" long and weighs 264 grains. It has no point and a self nock and the balance point is about an inch behind the centre. Fletching is rawhide, a little over an inch long and a little over a quarter inch high
