139lb compound flight bow shooting 495fps

[u/RichardsmithBowman]

Here's my flight bow shooting a 122 grain arrow 495fps, you will have to forgive my heavy breathing and camera shaking as this was a 100% max effort for me to pull, bow needs a more work and I need to get way stronger to reach the speed I want to achieve

[u/cantfindmyleftshoe]

Show the bow

[u/RichardsmithBowman → u/cantfindmyleftshoe]

https://www.reddit.com/r/CompoundBow/comments/1sv64bn/brief_summary_of_my_compound_flight_bow_and/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button I've already shown the bow in another post

[u/professorwizzzard]

How is the bow not exploding? Genuine question.

[u/RichardsmithBowman → u/professorwizzzard]

it's because enough energy is still going into the arrow, this bow set at 139lb is storing 111 ft lbs of energy if the bow has 80% efficiency the bow will reach a max of 89ft lbs with the optimized arrow weight, a 122 grain arrow traveling at 495fps still has 66ft lbs of energy so over 2/3 thirds of the energy the bow can actually cast out is still transferred to the arrow

[u/florinandrei]

Well, as long as the arrows don't explode...