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current flight shooting record

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Uli
Dear all,
Could someone teach me the actual flight shooting record for composites:
I found differing informations between 300 and 500 m,
one website claims 508 m (as of march 2010) in Hungary :?

+ which type of equipment was used ?

Thanks alot ! 8)
Bede
What kind of composite and what weight range?
Storm
Uli, I assume you are referring to this document:
http://www.hungarianarchery.com/History ... format=pdf
As far as I know this distance was shot with a biocomposite bow made by Grozer especially for the event.


An even larger distance was achieved by Harry Drake and Don Brown in 1995 with a primitive bow (about 566.5m):
http://anthromuseum.missouri.edu/grayso ... wnbow.shtm

I remember trying to find more information on this bow and on the bowyer but I had little success. I assume the shot was made in US, but the performance is not present in the US flight records:
http://www.usaarcheryrecords.org/Flight ... ecords.pdf

The US Flight records shows Daniel Perry as the record holder for the Unlimited Primitive Complex Composite with about 476m.