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I don't understand this 

The quality of the shaft should be considered.

Yes, 45# @ 32.
I use 120 grain Top Hat points.
Don't know about my paradox direction.

Regards, Olivier

Hi Chad,

Allthough not a reference at all I give you my feed-back. I'm shooting a 45# SMG, pulling to 32 with thumbring. I use to get my index finger against my upper jaws, at the back of the cheek. The bow string touches the cheek up the hand.

Again, this practice might be totally wrong You fellows please correct me!

Olivier

Thanks! I made my own feather burner. Home made feather burners are another topic ...

You are right, I use Tophat points, they are simply twisted on the shaft (no glue).
http://www.tophatarchery.com/

Olivier

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Things are much better now, the 75-80# shafts never breack when hitting the target, whatever distance.
I also noticed that the thread wrapped at the end of the rachis would worn more slowly than with former shaft.

Spine 75-80# is ok for a 45# bow with thumb release.

Still, I want to try some higher spines (80-85#, 85-90#), this is in my 2013 todo list 

Actually, this aspects of eastern culture can be disconcerting for a western follower. However, let's consider two more things:
1) I'm fond of chinese and japanese popular novels. I have found that in many of those stories, the hero would achieve success by finding his own way, possibly against tradition upholders. This schema is very close to western novel tradition.
2) Western educational system is based on the study of tradition and science as well.

This makes me think that individual aspirations to break rules, and on the other side the collective wiseness that tends to transmit tradition, are both shared by humanity. It is chaos against order.

Maybe the difference is in the fact that challenging the tradition is not - or less - considered as incorrect in western culture. A matter of etiquette?

My two cents,

Olivier

Not that fast I was refering to shafts I ordered 2 weeks ago from my ebay supplier in UK. These are not marked "Tiger", allthough.

If I order shafts from Jaap, which may happen when I'm fixed with the spine I need, I will post some pictures.

Just received new bamboo shafts with spine 75-80#!

I switched to 11/32 arrow points to fit larger diameter of the shaft. Those points are 120 gr instead of 100 gr on my former arrows.

New arrows hit the target with no angle, but 10 cm to the right, due to higher spine I guess. So far so good, I didn't break today

Here is a picture... Note that I found this thumb ring ok until I began to practice about 1 hour or two each day.

What about bamboo shafts from Korea? I read that they are the best one can find... Anyway shipping cost to France might be prohibitive, as well as Jaap Koppedrayer's I fear...