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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: tippit on August 17, 2024, 03:01:54 PM
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Getting old sucks...But at least I have been able to Reduce Weight on 26 bows so far that I can still shoot at 30 to 33 pounds @28. They are all different...longbows, recurves, selfbows, 3 piece, and bowbolts. So at 78+ I'm still having fun shooting a bunch of my old bows...tippit
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Thats encouraging, I'm hoping to be able to shoot my 35# Super Griz by this October.
Still in therapy from my hand surgery.
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I hear you tippit, be 79 in a week or so. I still can shoot my 55# R/D LB but recurves are out. 45#’s is my new preference. So, excuse for new bows and arrows
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You are been lucky to have been able to do it by yourself. Indeed I remember you made a great job👍
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That is awesome Jeff! And yes, getting old sucks!
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That's great, Jeff. You have the knowhow to keep reducing those bows as needed. Keep having fun.
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How many pounds have most of them been reduced - what is the most pounds you have taken off?
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Burnsie,
Most of these light weight bows have been reduced 2 times. Starting in the mid 50 pounds to 40 pounds. Now even 40#@28 is too heavy for me. So I reduced these 40 pound bows to 30/33 pounds @28. The most I've reduced a bow was 30 pounds. You have to remember that a 30pound bow does nor need the amount of glass backing that a 55 pound bow needs...tippit
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I enjoyed your threads back in the day when you reduced a bunch of really nice bows down to 40#. It gave me a lot of confidence to start tinkering with some of mine. Not enough to tinker with bows as valuable as the ones you modified though :biglaugh:
ever have any failures along the way?
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Two...one was carbon fiber backed and the carbon fiber splintered. The other was the limb collapsing on my tillering jig. I always stress a finished bow to 36 inch pull. If it is going to break, I want to see it break in the jig not my hand. I have reduced 50 to 60 bows without any problems. Again these are just my bows.