overdraw.

[unconciousarrower]

Hi all and sundry.
I'm going to do a bit of mucking around with oldie worldie overdraw thingies.
But because I know there is a wealth of knowledge and experience out there , can folks who know give me a few of the pros and cons.
Please only those people who have actual experience with these devices.
Real facts and impressions is what I'm after.No assumptions or conjecture.
Cheers Nathan

[Mark Burrows]

Many moons ago I attached a 3 inch overdraw to a Hoyt Pro Hunter ( I think that is what is was called ) I am talking somewhere in the early 80's when bows had round wheels, 30 % let off, ( amazing) and if we shot a compound at all it was with fingers and no sights. I was shooting alloy 2219's. The vision was at the time by shortening the arrow I could shoot 2216's or 2217's that were shorter and therfore faster. This would, in theory, make my shot flatter and less open to range error problems. As these days we did not have range finders either. This was all for hunting as the only target shooting we did those days was directly for hunting practice, more like stump shooting.
It did work to a degree, however my lefts and rights suffered. I think this was due to the fact that the arrow now pivoted well behind my wrist. The experiment was short lived.

[Bruce]

I tried one years ago but only used it for training it wasn't accurate enough but it did show up form issues with my bow hand

[unconciousarrower]

OK Ive had a bit of a play around with a 75mm over draw on an older X Force 29' 57#.
With the overdraw I managed to shave 37mm off arrow length dropping the grains per inch down to the recommended 5 per pound.
In the process I had a bit of a fiddle and twist of the strings and cables
the end result was quite interesting.
345 fps.
59#.
28.5".
Slight decrease in brace height.
No problems with accuracy.But I will still be using the bow madness as my primary because I played with the strings and cables on it as well and it is faster than the X Force pound for pound.
Id like to put an overdraw on it but with such a low brace height the gains would be vvvvv small.
Cheers Nath