Ok wonderful minds I need your help with this very newbie question.
So I am currently on a beginners course and have my final lesson this coming Saturday, exciting stuff!
My question is about Bow Length.
I'm using at the moment a 68" bow (taller than me lol) my draw length is 28 inches, so I looked on some charts as you do to begin with and it clearly states that at that draw length my bow should be 66"-68" in length, I'm totally fine with this, so then I started to look online on certain archery equipment sites, now I know, I'm not buying just as of yet, but when I look at their field recurve bows they seem to range in sizes only going up to 62". For anything longer I was looking at flat/long bows. I would have thought that 28 inch draw is probably common, we dont have orangutans arms or anything, so baffled as to why you cannot get these bows in that kind of length. Would it be then that I would need to buy riser and limbs separately, or is it that I actually dont need a bow this long after all. I have read things about peak performance when the bow is the correct length etc etc.. So wondered if you could de-confuse my brain.
Thank you in advance
Charlotte
So I am currently on a beginners course and have my final lesson this coming Saturday, exciting stuff!
My question is about Bow Length.
I'm using at the moment a 68" bow (taller than me lol) my draw length is 28 inches, so I looked on some charts as you do to begin with and it clearly states that at that draw length my bow should be 66"-68" in length, I'm totally fine with this, so then I started to look online on certain archery equipment sites, now I know, I'm not buying just as of yet, but when I look at their field recurve bows they seem to range in sizes only going up to 62". For anything longer I was looking at flat/long bows. I would have thought that 28 inch draw is probably common, we dont have orangutans arms or anything, so baffled as to why you cannot get these bows in that kind of length. Would it be then that I would need to buy riser and limbs separately, or is it that I actually dont need a bow this long after all. I have read things about peak performance when the bow is the correct length etc etc.. So wondered if you could de-confuse my brain.
Thank you in advance
Charlotte