| From: bigman
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| Date: 18-Mar-19 |
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What would the brace height be for a XP 64 staghorn recurve. Does anybody have any info on this bow? What a funky style handle and limb design. This bow looks like a shooter, but I would like to get some info on it, before I start shooting arrows out of it first. staghorn is now bruin I think. Any info would be great.
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| From: Kelly
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| Date: 18-Mar-19 |
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Start at 8”. When you say funky are you meaning the grip being high wrist?
Staghorn bows were made in Merrill WI by Bill Pyle. Outstanding bows that were way ahead of its time. The XP 60 and 64 were their top of the line hunting bow and it had the dual wedge limb, which was very stable and quite fast. Only downfall to this bow was the flex in the grip at full draw.
Staghorn is not Bruin although there are a lot of similarities and Mike Steliga was taught by Bill.
How many pounds? The 64 stands for 64” bow but that is really a 63” AMO.
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| From: Bootaka
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| Date: 18-Mar-19 |
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Friend of mine picked up a 64" staghorn about a year ago. It likes 8.25" brace. Id say check it out between 7.3/4" up to 9" Beautiful bows and great shooters. I want to say he was the first bowyer to start using exotic woods. Also want to say that his bows were essentially one offs. Every one is special!
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| From: Eric Lechleitner
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| Date: 18-Mar-19 |
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If it is easy to shoot it us right if it is too low it will become noticeably harder to shoot I have shot an XP 62 for years and an XP 60 before that enjoy it you will never shoot a better now
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| From: arlone
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| Date: 18-Mar-19 |
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They are back in business and still in Merrill. They have been advertising in "Trad Archer's World" for the last year or so, and still looking kind of "unique"!
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| From: Pdiddly
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| Date: 19-Mar-19 |
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I have a T-60. Great bow. I use a Ten-Ring string made from Rampage. It is very fast and quiet once tuned. It was noisy as hell until I found the correct brace then it quieted down when I the sweet spot...1/2" made a difference.
You need to find the correct brace height for yourself on that bow. No one can tell you what it is. They can tell you a starting point...that's all.
I start low and work up. The bow will be loud and spray arrows at the low brace. I unstring, remove the bottom loop, twist the brace five twists higher and I LISTEN to the bow and watch the arrows. If it is still bad mannered I unstring it and five more twists. As I do this the bow will shoot quieter and the groups will tighten as I approach the proper brace.
So the bow will "talk" and tell you the brace height for YOU on that bow.
I have observed at the ranges I go to that 75% of the people can't be bothered doing this essential exercise of gradually adjusting the brace to tune the bow.
They seem to set the brace at an arbitrary recommended distance and leave it there with the bow not being properly tuned, its accuracy diminished and noisy. Boggles the mind.
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| From: Pdiddly
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| Date: 19-Mar-19 |
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bigman..what are the stamps on your bow?
Here is how to tell when it was made. I posted this when I was aging my T-60.
"I found this on how to age a Staghorn.
First letter is the year, second letter is the month,next numbers are number of bows made in that series and the last letter is the model.
Production started in 1957 with the letter "A" so B would be 1958 and so on.
Month A is January, B is February and so on , like Roots and Shakespeare's.
So my Staghorn's serial digits are JG 9404 T. So that would mean my bow was built in July 1966 and is the 9404th Tempest made."
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| From: buddyb
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| Date: 19-Mar-19 |
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Here is their website, you could call and ask: http://gwyneddtrailrider.com/?fbclid=IwAR1x6jYJNrzLANKEZS6V-BxWzi2KmEjHLxsv6iLlBbIduo6JynHHm7KhrUc
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