Pedro C wrote:

or outshoot them? In those polish flight records, the kaya and windfighter bows never seem to do very well, sometimes they're outshot by self bows. I wonder if it's because of the arrows used, the technique, draw length, or even the bows themselves (doubt it)...
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I always see Turkish bows being praised for flight archery, but not Korean bows, why? Just because Koreans just don't really do flight archery?

Hi Pedro, I did participate in those flight shooting events you are referring to. I'll kindly disagree with you on your statement. First of all, those Kaya bows use by my friends and myself weren't "tuned up" for flight shooting. By that I mean that the entire set up (string and brace height) stayed as it was when I bought the bow back in 2009. Some guys say I could have scored higher (334 m for 70lbs@32" and 420 grain arrow) with thin string - maybe, I don't know, I might try that next time. The arrow is very important as well as clean release. But I'm sure you know that very well. Anyway, still I think that 350 m is feasible. Would that be very far? By present standards certainly not. Not bad for a $150 bow, though:)

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From what I have heard there are few fletchers carrying on the tradition of arrowmaking in Korea. Where do you buy their arrows?