The Vorderheubronn Flightarrow- Massacre

Last Saturday was the day, to chrono some flightbows and flightarrows I did all over 2013.

 The setup is like follows:

Chrono setup: the chronograph is placed on a rack, all the lights(LED) in my workshop are turned on, plus the indoor shooting lights of the chrony. There is a backstop in the background.

I found as much light as possible gives exact and serious results when doing chronos inside.

Indoor shooting lights for the chrony, installed just above the photo- sensors.

Inside the chrony with the 9V alkaline battery attached.

The display told me the chrony is ready.

Best speed of the 42lbs elm sinew backed bow, shot with a 260grs. arrow made of larch.

Sinew backed elm bow with inuit- style tips, bow is 44″ in length, 42lbs at 23″.

Sinew backed elm bow drawn at 9″

The short wild rose sinew- backed bow is 43″ in length, 40lbs at 23″.

It shots an 180grs. hollow cedar hex- shaft arrow at 204,6f/s.

The queen of this session:

Osage bow, inuit styled tips, 46lbs at 23″

Sideview of the queen

The queen- braced. The arrow is made of thin baked strips of fine grown larch, with the tip and the nock enforced with bird’ s eye maple.

That’ s it!
Best speed of this session.

Success so far. But I was longing for more: 300f/s!!!!

I ignored my falling concentration and accuracy and ended up with 4 broken flightarrows, the 279,0f/s arrow is lost somewhere in the disorder of my workshop. I even hitted the wire rod of the chrony and failed the backstop, my hands and fingers began to suffer. Remember zen: don’ t overdo it, underdo it.

These arrows are all composites. I guess I should choose the wood for the arrows much more serious and take much more care on the glueing.

The fletchings have survived for the next massacre.