Sitting around this morning contemplating a strategy for next years archery flight shooting championships. We really don’t go out there to comptete as much as we do to set world records, in effect competing with all those who ever been active in the sport.
It occured to me this morning as it often does how much data that has never been recorded. For instance, I may need to shoot an arrow 1,000 yards to break a record. I have no idea how fast an arrow needs to leave the bow to achieve that distance. If I knew, I could test my bows over a chronograph for speed and keep building till I get that speed. Once I got the speed I could concentrate my efforts into arrow flight dynamics. As it stands now, I build some bows and arrows then once a year go try them out. If I fail I build some more and come back next year.
With more data I could squeeze 20 years worth of work into one year. Most of the data I am looking for could be tested for and recorded with one or two helpers over a weekend. If I was properly set up to do the testing.
I have been accused of taking the romance out of the sport by some. Others would love to have data like this. I also believe that more data might help to rejuvenate this sport that is hovering on the edge of disappearing. I am retired now and see this as kind of an important contribution to a sport I love.
Anyone else have any kind of projects they would like to do just based on a personnal passion for something.
I have some feeling as towards so of the older tech stuff I did back when.
As far a archery goes, I have several nieces who do this as a family , so, children, some quite young.
A lot of Archery fishing is done.
As to long distance shooting, when you get into bows that are held by the feet to shoot for long distance, The cost in time & money are too much for a lot of people.
I think there will always be some who do this particular type of archery.
We actually have about a dozen different classes with different weight classes within them. What you are describing is what is known as regular flight. I imagine less than 1/2 dozen folks world wide are doing this today. Thse are the bows that are reaching out over a mile. I feel like supplying more Data would potentially shorten the learning and experimental time needed and make competing a lot more feasable.
Thats what I plan to do but in order for it to have any meaning all the variables need to be controlled. Thats exactly how I plan to do it is to simply shoot a bunch of arrows with known variables and chart the results. So many variables it will take several days and a few hundred dollars worth of arrows. . Also not too many places you can shoot 1,000 yards and have enough open space to find your arrow. I need to go to the utah salt flats for the testing.