[stevelong]

haha pro melodist!!!! I love it.

 

[longbowguy]

Me too. I have always regarded the bow as the first musical instrument. The music is part of the pleasure.

I have enough of them to play a simple quintet.

You might tune with the brace height to get the tone you prefer, but 8 & 1/4 sounds about right. - lbg

 

[twix]

ok here the 1200 grams new comer: i put my silencers in L6, and they are doing the job, the bow is quiet enough put the brace height up to 8,5". my string got 16 strand , probably too much and it was the cheapest string in the shop, i will probably take a new one
for the moment i use easton gamegetter spine 500, 505 grains, for around 39# on my fingers.
the arrows are too heavy but weak enough, i will find better aluminium arrows may be in 600 spine.
i'm going to take some time with this bow i'm still very surprise by his natural balance than my others bows.

 

[stevelong]

that's a great looking BOW friend. wow.

 

[twix]

that's a great looking BOW friend. wow.

thanks to you Steve

 

[Creature]

Beautiful bow and I am sure you will enjoy it. I still have mine from when I used it for a lot of tournaments in 1969. Hoyt at one time advertised it as the winningest bow in history and until the metal riser takedown replaced it there is no doubt it was the bow to own for serious target shooters.

 

[Colin Rogers]

Kinda new to traditional archery and I have this Hoyt Pro medalist recurve bow. I was wondering if someone could tell me the purpose of this red tab mounted on the riser. View attachment 53154

Hello, I’ve just been gifted this very bow. So new to long bowing. An obvious equation for yourself. Those little plastic flaps right by the logo. ‘Is this where the arrow shaft rests in peeping to shoot?’ Cheers.

 

[Colin Rogers]

Hello, I’ve just been gifted this very bow. So new to long bowing. An obvious equation for yourself. Those little plastic flaps right by the logo. ‘Is this where the arrow shaft rests in peeping to shoot?’ Cheers.

Prepping not peeping..

 

[stevelong]

arrow sits on the little curley-q arm sticking out to left.
little TAB-like plastic piece (flap) is kind of a bumper for arrow to run alongside of in beginning flight as it comes off string.

 

[stevelong]

COLIN welcome to the forum.
not to be critical, just informative, these are recurves......
with recurves limbs come back towards shooter and then RE-CURVE away again at the tips.
You referred to being new to longbows,......with longbows there is no recurving at the tips, a longbow string does not touch limbs until the actual TIPS.

 

[Colin Rogers]

Hi Ste, It is a recurve. I’ve found out.