I ordered a SR Swift from Great Plains in March and it made it to WV today. What a bow! It's a Rio Bravo with 60" limbs and has antler tips.I had originally ordered it 50# at 28". After my shoulder started giving me trouble I called and changed it to 45#. I probably wont be able to move my arm tomorrow because I shot it until dark. I'm old enough to know better but I couldn't put it down!
A club member had let me try his B model at a 3D shoot this spring and I fell in love with it. I like this bow even more. It's the first TD bow I've had and the first FF string bow I've messed with. It was a little noisy with beaver fur silencers so I put a couple cat wiskers on it and quieted right down. I'm tickled to death with it.
Congrat on the new bow!
The SR Swifts are excellent recurves.
Bill Foreman builds some of the best bows around.
Mike
Congrats, now we need pics you know.
I've always liked Great Plains recurves. Congrats! Now, we need pics!!
Excellent bows,hope you enjoy it.
The SR would be my next bow for sure. Yes, bring on the pics!
I'm a real fan of Great Plains. I still have the one I bought from Mike Burch!
I'll take some pictures and see if I can post them tonight.
I love my SR Swift, great bow and a solid performer.
I'm at a high speed stand still on pictures. I'm having camera problems. I will get them at some point.
I shot the Swift a little this evening. I shot a few arrows through the chronograph to see what she was doing. I had the chrony set up at 15 ft. That's the distance I always used with my firearms. I just came in the house and looked at one of Blackys reports and saw that he set his chrony up at 3 ft. I'm curious how much difference 12 ft will make and will try again this weekend.
I've always put speed behind accuracy and terminal performance with bows or firearms but wanted to know what kind of arrow speed I was getting.
If my bow scale is right I was pulling 43#. My draw is 27.5" and the arrow weight 530 grns. I shot 5 arrows per set and it averaged 165 fps.
I was surprised the difference the release made. If I was careful and used good consistant form and release the spread was 1 to 2 fps. It didn't take much of a rough release to jump to 5 to 10 fps spread between shots. It's no wonder I can't hit the broad side of a barn some days. You all already knew this but I thought it was pretty interesting.
Anyway, I'm going to see what the chrony says at 3 ft sometime this weekend and hopefully I get some pictures off of the camera and posted. She sure is a sweet bow!
I sure do love the bow I got now but if i ever did decide to get a new bow it would definitely be the SR Swift.
Congats on the new bow, enjoy it.