Fast flight on selfbow

mahaska 53 · February 24, 2014, 09:52:00 PM

Has anyone used a padded fast flight on a selfbow? I was told it would be ok as long as it was padded.

Walt Francis · February 24, 2014, 10:06:00 PM

Yep, never had a problem, but I only use them on bows with tip overlays. The exception is osage, I don't worry about having overlays when using it.

scrub-buster · February 24, 2014, 10:59:00 PM

I switched to FF about two years ago on all of my selfbows.

Echatham · February 25, 2014, 08:00:00 AM

ive done it on two bows now no problem. 12 strand d97 on one and 14 strands on another. no padding. if i was gonna go like 9 strands i guess i would.

Fritz · February 25, 2014, 09:04:00 AM

I've got 4 selbows all with d97 10 strand loops padded to 16 strands. Only one of the 4 has tip overlays and I've had no issues with any of them. Definitely increases performance.

Pat B · February 25, 2014, 03:35:00 PM

I use B-50 but I have 2 osage bows that Dano sent me, both have fast flight and neither have tip overlays.

LittleBen · February 27, 2014, 10:34:00 AM

I usually don't bother even padding the loops unless it's a really skinny string.

I have one sinew backed eastern red cedar with pin nocks and no overlays, it's been shooting for years with a FF string.

I don't even own B-50.

bubby · February 27, 2014, 02:36:00 PM

I use 10 strands and add 2 strands of b50 in the ends of each bundle, overlays or not