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  1. MSR

    Do you use an adjustable V bar and was it worth it?

    Background: I have a Beiter Centralizer stabiliser kit, with a flat V bar connected using the pin system. I prefer angled V bars, but angled V bars that attach to the pin system are now very hard to find (am still looking). Options include replacing the pin system with a flat end cap so that...
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    When recurve is like compound... angular vs linear draw

    I've been reviving my memory of how to shoot, and looking up the various styles. I have a linear draw, but years ago I researched the angular draw the US Olympic team made famous. I still don't think I like the idea: there's too much in the arm and not enough in the back for my liking. But there...
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    Equipment insurance?

    Given that the cost of replacing decent equipment seems to be going up, has anyone decided to invest in insuring their equipment? As it stands, I could not currently replace my setup, at least not with what the market considers its equivalent. I do wonder if "cheaper" equipment available today...
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    Angling the short rods

    Never mind. Have found mention of the v bars with a 17 degree down angle in the Beiter literature, which gave me the right words to google to find the things.
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    Estimating useful life left in foam core limbs

    I've bought a second-hand Sebastien Flute recurve with SF limbs and riser. I know the former owner who had it from new. He shot once or twice a week, occasionally did a competition, for about five years. Then the kit sat in the cupboard for another five. Now I've got it. The limbs are foam core...
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    Aluminium telegraph poles vs skinny stealth jet carbons, and other things.

    Hello, I've come back from a few years out (henceforth referred to as the Dark Times) and I find I've either forgotten, or can't remember how to remember, various things I used to take for granted. So, I'm adopting the status of elder noob, and am commencing with the stupid questions, once...
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    Alternative to the 70m H2H

    Most Olympic sports have more than one discipline, and thus more than one type of event and more opportunities to compete and win. Why is archery basically limited to H2H rounds at 70m? The new set scoring format is good. It still has it's problems, but it works much better than the old...
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    Where do all the 'officials' come from?

    While watching various sports at Rio, I've also been looking around the edges of the screen at the logistics of it all, and the echelons of uniformed officials from line judges and ball 'people', to sand pit rakers and those people with clipboards and worried frowns who usher athletes in and out...
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    Problem: accurate at long range - inaccurate at short range

    I've discovered a curious problem. At ranges of 40m and 50m my groups are correct for elevation, with some dispersal left and right (but that was me not aiming well). The important result was that they were all correct for elevation and at least three or four were in the gold. The problems...
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    Two eyes open v. one eye closed

    While watching Rio I have seen one or two archers who close one eye, but the vast majority shoot with both eyes open. I tried this the other day and went cross-eyed. I could see both targets quite clearly, and both reticules where on the gold, but which one the arrow was going to hit, I...
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    Three fingers under for recurve

    Saw a Swedish archer, Christine Bjerendal, shoot today. The first thing I noticed was that she appeared to have tattooed her bracer on. The second thing was that she draws with three fingers under, and seems to do a bit of angular draw, tucking in slightly just as she comes to full draw. The...
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    US team strange parallel parking style anchor

    I just watched the final of the mens team competition between the USA and Korea. The US team have a very strange draw. They draw back parallel with the face and then move the hand in towards the face and find the anchor. They don't draw straight back to the anchor. The US style results in a...
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    Making a rip-off formaster/astra shot trainer

    My intention is to make a home-made version of a thing that would otherwise cost me ?60 or more, and use it primarily for static holds/reversals. If I make it well enough I'll also use it for shot training. I am especially paranoid about making it strong as I don't want a 40lb dry fire or a...
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    Archery Professionals: do they start at age 3 or 30?

    Possibly because of the looming Olympics, a recent beginner at my club was asking about what it took to go pro. I don't think they had stars in their eyes, just curious. We opined about golf in which a man in his sixties is still competitive, and I made the point that our club has retired...
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    The science bit

    Hello. I realised the other day just how big the gaps in my knowledge must be. I was thinking about why some bows are recurve, some are reflex, etc. and the physics that gives a recurve an advantage over a traditional longbow, for example. And I realised I could not describe the advantage, or...
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    Gluing points back into Easton ACCs - safe to use hot melt?

    I over-penetrated a hay boss and left the point in the wooden target stand when I withdrew the arrow. This makes me wonder if it was originally fitted with hot melt, anyway, and the friction melted it. Having said that, I was only shooting at 40 metres so it might just have been physics...
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    Striker is finally dead... I sent it on the slow boat to Avalon

    My Striker hard recurve case died today. The two latches had already broken when I inherited it from another club member, but today one of the two locks finally gave up. The locks were taking all the strain, you see, and they weren't up to it. So unless I want to wrap it up in straps to hold it...
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    Button 'moving body' - limb tillering - unstrung limbs rattle

    Hello. I've finally upgraded to a proper metal bow after years of shooting variations on wooden take-downs. Now I have even more things to learn! Such as... Q1. I have a Decut button which has what the diagram on the box calls a 'moving body' which is the base of the button (opposite end to...
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    Experimenting with a version of 'bare bow'

    Hello. If I take all the bells and whistles off a wooden riser and stick a shelf pad on, with the goal of shooting bare bow, what else should I think about? For instance, will I have to change the arrows? Cheers
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    Advise requested on upgrade

    Hello. Can anyone advise on my plans for an upgrade? I am shooting a wooden recurve with 28lb limbs and 31" Easton Blues aluminium arrows, spine 1916. I have measured my current draw weight at 35lbs with a bracing height of 9", which has increased from around 32lbs when I started. I am...
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