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                           Arrow  Speed        

     All of my bows are tested for arrow speed before they go up for sale. I am serious about bow performance and guarantee my bows to shoot over a certain speed. I use a shooting machine to test my bows. I have found that it is the most accurate and consistent way of obtaining arrow speeds. The accuracy helps me to compare one bow to the next when testing and developing new bow models... 
       When testing my bows I shoot with an arrow that is 10 grains per pound of bow weight. That means if the draw weight of a bow is 50 lbs. at 28" I shoot a 500 gr. arrow drawn to 28" to test that bow for speed. 10gpp is a very common standard for a lot of bowyers to test their bows. Although some bowyers like to use 9gpp arrow weight...
     Arrow speed is measured is 'FPS' which means feet per second...

After much research and seeing what speeds that most bows are shooting at.  I have come up with an average or standard for what I consider a fast or slow bow. These speeds are with a 10gpp arrow weight...  For bows shot with a  9gpp arrow increase the speeds by 6 to 9 fps on average...

           
        @ 10gpp
    Below 160 fps  -     Slow                self bows and primitive bows
   160  to  175 fps  -    Average          your average off-the-shelf fiberglass bows and some self bows
   175  to  180 fps  -    Quick              some off-the-shelf fiberglass bows and bowyers
   180  to  185 fps  -    Fast                 mostly made by bowyers
   185  to  190 fps  -    Very Fast         not very common
   190  to  195 fps  -     Smoking         rare
   195  to  200 fps  -     Holy Grail        very, very rare



​Here is a picture of the shooting machine. Simple but accurate and  effective...

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​     Here is a Link to 'TradLab' where an Independent test was done on my 'Nitro' limbs hitting a speed of 188 fps @ 10 gpp of arrow weight...  Putting this bow first in it's class and 4th overall of all the bows that were currently tested...      3 / 28 /2020

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https://www.thetradlab.com/recurves
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                                                             NITRO Limbs
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