Hand Shock with longbow?

Wannabe1 · January 19, 2011, 05:49:00 PM

Rob, thought you would like to know. I just made up a Surewood shaft, 65-70 spine cut 31.5" b.o.p. with a 160gr field tip, weighing 614gr total. Shooting out of my 68", 51# @ 29" Howard Hill Owl it flew pretty good that I could tell at approx. 15yds. Hardly a thump at all and that's with a straight grip! :D Oh ya, B50 string w/cat whiskers.

Folks, like Rob says, "tweakable extrinsic factors."

bentpole · January 19, 2011, 05:53:00 PM

Hand Shock!!?? :eek:

:eek: Call Vince at Mohawk. None what so ever.

GingivitisKahn · January 19, 2011, 06:14:00 PM

I love threads like this one. They give me opportunity for advanced snarkiness. :D

Not sure about other long bows but if you hold a straight handled longbow the same way you hold a pistol-gripped recurve, count your fillings first because you may lose some. If you hold the LB right though (think Biggie mentioned some tips), you'll be fine.

January 19, 2011, 06:44:00 PM

Hill style bows with trimmer limbs like the John Schulz, Miller and Pete George bows, have less hand shock and shoot a faster arrow than the more cluby limbed longbows, no matter how you hold them.

TDHunter · January 19, 2011, 06:52:00 PM

I notice hand shock and have a very sensitive elbow do to injury. I've shot Recurves for 20+ years and also wanted to shoot longbows but they always bothered my elbow.
I've since been exposed to a lot of nice longbows with no hand shock. I've got an ACS and a MOAB and I hope to have a Centaur in the future. After shooting these I will sell off my recurves.

Just find the right longbow

highplains55 · January 19, 2011, 07:52:00 PM

glassed back bows with thinner glass have less handshock,ive had longbows with 30 thou. and 40 thou. thick glass that were trap tillered with yew core that felt like selfbows,all my LB's now are trapped with 50 thou glass and yew core,very little handshock, i had bows in the early 90's that had 80 thousandths glass and they would nock your teeth out,sometimes bowyers would use heavy glass cause they could save money by using less laminations,if you buy a new bow i would ask the bowyer the thickness of glass used,you don't see many shooters in these threads bringing up glass thickness! thats my first consideration, then design, then core,lastly veneers.

Hand Shock with longbow?

Wannabe1

bentpole

GingivitisKahn

TDHunter

highplains55