| RE: New Compound
What a lot of people mean when they say forgiving is tolerant. By this I means that when you make a bad loose for instance an intolerant bow will cause the arrow to impact further from the aiming point than a tolerant bow. I would respectfully sugest that until you have shot a compound off fingers you have very little experience in the field of tolerance. I have two Oneidas both fine bows but a world apart from each other in terms of diamensions and technology. the first is an old Eagle it has a 50% let off a string lenght 47.5 inches a brace height of around 8 inches and soft cams. Its is a very tolerant bow, yes it is slow not much faster than a 50 lb recurve with carbon limbs. About 250 fps, it is very pleasent to shoot so much so that one of the died in the wool recurve shooters at the my club had a go and with his first arrows off a strange bow and set up was able to shoot a 4 inch group at 60 yds.(off fingers). The second bow is a modern Oneida and is less tolerant shorter and a lot faster with hard cams. You have to pay alot more attention to your loose but when you do it is far more accurate than the old bow.
The speed loss of a longer bow with a higher brace height need not be as huge as has been sugested if you choose a Bowtech Constitution they claim a over 300 fps with that bow. For a 40" A to A bow with an 8" brace height.
Its all depends what you want to do . There is no substitute for shoot ing a bow and seeing if it suits your style.
Some more info on what you want to shoot would be helpful ,are you a finger shooter or release aid user?  |