If it ain't broke don't fix itILF geometry a similar length of time - we are a conservative lot
I did say 'successfully' didn't I?bought out and turned into a budget brand
Unless you can get a patentIf it ain't broke don't fix it
ILF is not perfect, and it has stifled some radical bow designs, the geometry leaves little scope for development.If it ain't broke don't fix it
They don't need to be better arrows, they just need to be perceived as being better arrows.Perhaps it's not a matter of making better arrows; so much as making better selling arrows.
Yes, you don't need the scientific method and high tech measurement devices to observe what happens in the physical world and draw conclusions.I suspect plenty of people who actually made arrows by hand from the raw had all this figured out a long, long time ago. To think that nobody had thought about and understood the 'archers paradox' before the high speed camera is pretty daft
After all you just need to go and shoot some weak arrows and then some stiff ones...….
I would suggest it doesn't take a genius to realize that when shaft is not pointing in the exact same line as the push of the string that it will flex..... the next step to realize that once the shaft has flexed in one direction if it isn't interfered with it will then rebound and flex in the other direction doesn't take too much imagination
Barrelled shafts will always be 'better' if your goals are target related. All things being equal other than the barrelling the barrelled shaft will straighten quicker, be lighter and thus a little faster. Useful traits for a target arrow.
Strange these are the same claims made by Carbon Express and sponsored shooters for their parallel shaft Nano Pro's and X-Treme, unlike an aluminium tube do not over time take a set, are stronger and you can buy replacements in singles...Barrelled shafts will always be 'better' if your goals are target related. All things being equal other than the barrelling the barrelled shaft will straighten quicker, be lighter and thus a little faster. Useful traits for a target arrow.
Or in NFAS field shooting at all, I've never seen one on a field course, they are (AFAIK) universally avoided.Unchallenged supremacy ... in a very narrow sector of the archery world...
I don't s'pose that arrow has made much meat in the regions of the globe where archery is a way of putting food on the table. Or in field shooting in ELB or primitive classes?
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I too have to keep a close eye on budget, almost all my equipment is second hand, I'm just glad that someone has shelled out for good kit and then decided to sell it on (probably due to buying the next "must have"), It's a great feeling when you out shoot the "must have" recurve archers with your second hand BarebowAs someone whos' riser-and-limbs cost less than £175, someone who is forced by circumstance to ensure that 'value for money' remains the primary consideration for any purchase, someone who looks at TFT-G & NS-G as 'oh, if I ever win the lottery', and someone who in general is resistant to the pressures of unfettered 'free-market capitalism'...
I am conflicted!
I'm glad enough higher-income people have invested enough in archery to make great products available to more people with a mouse-click but troubled by the fact that there is still a 'my kit is better than yours' attitude - even if unspoken - on many a firing line.
But compared to the lunacy of 'people & smartphones' (for example), it's not really so bad.