Traditional Archery Discussions on the Leatherwall


speed bows by John Laffin

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bugsy 49 11-Jan-25
fdp 11-Jan-25
bugsy 49 11-Jan-25
fdp 11-Jan-25
Corax_latrans 11-Jan-25
bugsy 49 11-Jan-25
From: bugsy 49
Date: 11-Jan-25




Who owns one? The bows boast some high arrow speeds for such low poundage bows. He has past away, but he, and Dave Mead were speed bow friends, and have a Utube video. Just wondered if any one owned ,and shot it through a chrony.

From: fdp
Date: 11-Jan-25




Do you mean Peter Laffin? He has a book out that you can find on Amazon, and Lee Meyers had one of his bows for sale on here several years ago.

From: bugsy 49
Date: 11-Jan-25




Ya Frank.... my bad. I saw a Utube video of him shooting his bows, and Dave Mead shooting one of his bows through a chrony. He shot a fluid release arrow at 202 fps. Never worried much about speed except I do test my self bows to make sure if I were to hunt with one it would have enough power at a reasonable distance to expire a white tail. I don't know how many lams he used in his limbs, but the limbs look straight width for a few inches from the fades out, and then very narrow from there to the tips. Thanks for the first name correction Frank.

From: fdp
Date: 11-Jan-25




Those bows are just really, really interesting to me as well.

From: Corax_latrans
Date: 11-Jan-25




Fast bows are always interesting!!

Limb design seems a bit reminiscent of a Mollegabbet, maybe??

From: bugsy 49
Date: 11-Jan-25




Maybe... and I don't want to speak for Arvin, but I think he makes his record breaking Osage flight self bows in a similar fashion.





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