How To Make Your Bow SHOOT FASTER Immediately!

What's up friends welcome back to the cave today it's a great day because in today's video I'm gonna tell you the fastest and easiest way to make your bow shoot faster but first if you're new here thank you so much for joining me my name is Kramer Ammons we do all things traditional archery bow making trying to make bows out of crazy things just pushing the limits and taking nothing for granted so the easiest way to make your bow fast is to put a different string on it not all strings are created equal let me explain we've got all these crazy names for bowstrings like 652 spectra b55 x99 dynaflight 97 b50 bowstring right there all of these bowstrings are made from similar or the same material just different percentages of that type of material and what we measure most is the stretch in a bowstring because the more of bowstring stretches the slower it's gonna shoot the arrow and the less the bowstring stretches the faster it's gonna shoot the arrow the reason we don't all just get the fastest bowstrings out there is because they're almost too much like a cable they stretch so little that if we shot that through a traditional bow we would have extreme hand shock and then also the bow limbs might not handle it so we need some stretch stretch isn't a bad thing stretch makes the bow much more comfortable to shoot and also makes it quieter to shoot most times you receive a bowstring in the mail with a bow you purchase you're gonna receive a endless loop d97 or a dynaflight bowstring we make Flemish twist rings which is a different type of bowstring that's weaved together but we make those out of b55 and fast flight we actually don't sell the d97 but for your benefit I'm gonna test all three against each other so you'll be able to see the speed between what the stock bowstring is versus a custom-made one before we go test the differences in speed and b55 and fast light I'm gonna show you the difference in stretch I'm gonna stretch a bowstring with a winch and a scale on it as soon as it hits a hundred pounds of pressure I'm gonna stop it there and then we'll release it back to normal and see how much b55 stretches compared to how much fast light stretches this is b55 stretch it to a hundred pounds there's a hundred okay I'll mark this square to where a hundred pounds is and now we'll release the string to resting a hundred pounds of pressure stretched it two and a half inches fast flight string is next stretch it to oh there we go we hit a hundred real fast you'll see it start dropping down see it'll stop at 69 because the longer it's at a stress point the less poundage it gets because it'll slowly stretch mark that line the lines are in different spots but these strings may not be exactly the same length so let's lower this and see how much it stretches isn't that amazing three-quarters of an inch this is the d 97 bowstring cranked up to 100 pounds and we'll mark that right there okay let the bowstring retreat to resting position and we'll measure the difference measuring down to the d97 mark it's that middle one right there looks like we're an inch and a half maybe an inch and 3 8's as I stretch the bowstring back there'll be a lot of tension on it but the longer you hold that tension the string over time will slowly stretch out so this is kind of hard to measure but I just cranked it as fast as I could to a hundred pounds stop at that a hundred pounds mark it right there and then see how much it retreats so that's the way I measured this I know it's not perfect but I think this is clear enough to see the difference so the b55 string stretched two and a half inches back from a hundred pounds the d97 did about an inch and a half and the fast flight did three-quarters of an inch so keeping the premise that the last stretch of a bowstring the faster the shot then the b55 should be the slowest arrow the fast flight should be the fastest and the d97 should fall somewhere in between let's go test it out and see if this is true we're gonna do a speed test here I've got the chronograph and the target set up behind me first we're gonna do b55 then we're gonna go to our d97 and then to the fast flight string so if everything goes as we should the speed should increase each string starting off with b55 this is how it performed averaging out the b55 shots we end with 195 feet per second I'm using a pretty light arrow this is about six to seven grains per pound of draw weight with this bow averaging out d97 bowstring the average speed is 198.5 now I did have one odd ball out there that seemed quite low so that's probably closer to 199.5 if you take that one out and then the fast flight averages 205.75 so with this being said it looks like it jumps about five feet per second for each string so if you've got a b55 string and you want to quickly make your bow 10 feet per second faster get a fast flight string or if you have a d97 string that came with your bow a fast flight string will make it five feet per second faster there's the facts that's how you make your bow faster as always if you want to flimish twist a bowstring you can go to it'll take you to the same place link in the description and you can get a custom-made handmade bowstring from us also if you need a custom-made high quality leather archery tab you can get those on the website as well if you like archery or this type of video and you haven't yet go ahead and subscribe that means the world to me and it'll allow you to know when the next video is posted stay positive be shatterproof I'm for you see you on the next video peace