>>176584>>176593>>176590Long, heavy limbs have slower cast. But why? Even if lead weights were attached, shouldn't a limb's kinetic energy transfer to the string as limbs slam home, snapping the string taut?
This is like asking which will propel a golf ball faster, a 10 mph freight train or a 100 mph golf club. Vastly more energy is stored in the freight train, but 10 mph is 10 mph. Too-long or too-heavy limbs come home too slowly. They can only snap the string slowly.
Much of the energy stored in long or heavy limbs remains in the limbs after release, becoming hand shock, string twang, and limb vibration.
This is why flight bows are golf club-like: short, low mass, fast-reacting limbs. Flight arrows, arrows light enough not to impede these fast limbs can be shot much faster than normal weight arrows. The same flight arrow shot from an EWB of equal weight would be much slower.
You obviously don't know shit. I've never seen The Hunger Games. I came across the information many years ago when I read the book, I only posted the google link to the book so you could read it and get rid of your ignorance.
Again, there is no magical property of one wood that lets it cast arrows better than another wood. The ability of a bow to cast an arrow lies in the profile of the bow.
And yes, Ironwood has the ability to make great bows depending on what specific species you use. It seems that maybe you need to do a little more reading and to broaden your horizons with different bow woods.
Ironwood bow examples:
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,24542.0.html
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,8487.0.htmlhttp://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,37672.0.htmlYou clearly don't understand anything.
