Archery

Some months ago I made a post asking about denim finger tabs, and said I'd try it out and make an update. I ended up forgetting, especially because I've been spending less time online (humblebrag, because I'm proud of it). Also, I only went to the club about once per week, and had to skip a few weeks.

Anyway, here's my experience.

My club also had some old/used leather tabs that you can borrow, and I used them a few times to compare. The thing about the denim tabs is that they are kinda thin by default. Even if you double layer (which is easy to do with most denim materials by just bending it in half), they are still much thinner. Another issue with denim is that if you just cut it, it starts fraying at the edges and falling apart very easily. An easy way to solve this would be stitch/sow the edges; however, the stitch also adds an imperfection (becomes less smooth) to the tab. I'm too inexperienced to say how much it affects the release, but it's worth mentioning.

In short, they are viable but require more craft work than just cutting a piece in the right shape (layering, and stitching). Someone also mentioned canvas, and I'm thinking of trying that sometime later. For now, I'll just keep borrowing the old tabs.

Edit: Also, for some context, I've been shooting recurves in the 25-32lbs range.

What reliable bow string would you recommend for a 62 inch recurve takedown bow? The string that came with my starter kit frayed by the third session and I've heard some strings can last up to three years with regular use if properly maintained.

The vambrace design is still a WIP though.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33947227

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I'm looking for suggestions for video analysis software for training.

Preferably something that

• can handle multiple camera streams at once.
• can run without internet access or a subscription. (it's for a clubhouse and I don't want to send video of the kids, or other training data, online).
• doesn't require a PhD in robotics to set up.

The solution I imagine is two or more cameras filming an archer. The software shall record the training, and allow the archer to playback multiple synchronized streams simultaneously while adding tracking points and displaying data like angles, distance and speed.

I can find several different solutions. But before putting all our eggs in a single basket with the FOSS solution kinovea or utilus fairplay, I want to hear what others have tried.

Edit: IDK first interaction this post got was getting down voted, I guess that it's relevance to archery was unclear, so I edited the title to mitigate this.

Hopefully this community isn't dead and someone will see it.

I'm a vegetarian leaning vegan who just got into archery and I need some kind of finger protection. All finger tabs I see are made of leather, but obviously I want to avoid that; and I've also seen gloves made from plastics, but ideally I'd like to avoid plastics as well since they're not very sustainable.

I've seen some videos of people making their own finger tabs from leather and it appears quite simple, so I had the idea of making mine using denim from an old pair of jeans.

So, how viable do you think denim is? I expect one tab won't last as long as if it was leather or plastic, but I have an entire pair of jeans to go through.

EDIT: Thanks for all the answers! I'm still in the process of getting federated so I can start going to the range regularly, but I think once I do I will try the denim method to see how it goes and then post an update. I'll probably use it for a month or until it falls apart, whichever comes first.

Do the markings on a sight tape stay exacty linear with all bows? Eg: if 20m and 30m is exactly 10mm apart, will 50m and 60m also be 10mm apart? I have to make my own sight tape, so I was wondering if this logic holds. I manually sighted in from 20 to 50, and mine seems to be spaced 7mm apart all the way to 50.

Question:

1. What the heck?
2. Anybody seen this before? Did you manage to solve it? And if so, how?

Situation: During the last part of the draw, a recurve bow clicks occasionally. As in it doesn't happen at every draw. When the click occurs it consistently happens immediately before the actual clicker, causing confusion for the archer, and lost spin wings.

It's not my bow, it belongs to an archer at my club.

Setup: hoyt gmx3 riser, kinetic carbon bamboom #32 limbs, beiter plunger and clicker, and a shibuya ultima arrow rest.

The bow has shot about 15k arrows in the current setup over the last 10 months. Limbs were bought second hand, and has shot considerably more.

Immediately before: The issue arose after aligning the limbs using the horizontal bolts. The bolts were supposedly tightened correctly. Ie I trust the people who did it, as they are way more experienced than me.

Attempted: So far I've tried tightening the counter bolt on the limbs weight adjustment bolt. It was plenty tight. I didn't have a lot of time, so I haven't had time to try anything else. The bow has shot about 100 arrows after my attempt, and it still happened enough to pull the wings off of 3 arrows.

Plan of action:

• I will double check the horizontal adjustment, and the bolts tightness.
• I will have a look at the limb pockets, perhaps put a bit of string wax in them.
• We will try swapping limbs. But I've seen this before and brand new limbs didn't solve it.

I want to build myself a spine tester to calculate the spine value of arrow shafts using the ASTM F2031 standard. I do know that I need a 880 gram weight and that I have to measure the amount of flex that the shaft produces when I hang said weight at the center of a 28 inch span off the shaft.

Well, but what then? I can measure the amount of deflection I have then but let's say the shaft is deflected by 1/12th of an inch or some millimetres. How do I calculate a spine value that ranges between 20 to 80 from that?

Can anybody give me a hint or solution?

I have a suggestion for a rule amendment. It goes like this:

When posting pictures of your targets, post as much info about your setup as reasonably possible, ie distance, target diameter, bow type etc. If you're looking for advice, be as specific about your gear as possible.

Reason for my suggestion is that a lot of the time posters will leave out this info, but still be looking for advice, or to show off I guess, when posting a picture of their target. I mean a spread of 50cm at 18m with a compound bow isn't that impressive - not that there's any reason to discourage the archer. But was that a 15cm spread instead, at 70m, with a bare bow, then that's pretty darn impressive.

I like to give constructive feedback, but I know next to nothing about anything but recurve target archery.

Back on December 24th, I wrote the mod of this community, !innkeeper@lemmy.world, suggesting this rule ammendment. It's been two and a half week and I haven't heard back. I also noticed when writing the mod, that the account haven't posted or commented anywhere in a year. So now I'm trying the community instead. I have no idea what we need to do to actually implement the rule, so I'd thought I'd give democracy a shot in the meantime.

Haven’t gone to the range in over a month, really thought I wouldn’t be able to pull my bow back, but I picked up rowing recently and it’s been a huge help in between archery sessions!