Enter Me. Always thought about trying that, but I was told , it won't make a difference. Love your video's, I learned a lot from them.

Good explanation to brace height. I'm sort of new to the sport and am always a "seek the middle" type guy. I have two old bows, and when setting them up, I usually set them at the mid point between the two extreme recommended settings. I'm not to much into speed, however, a flat trajectory is what I hope to accomplish. Your video has caused me to feel a little better about not worrying too much. Thanks for the explanation.

Enter Me! Hi Scott, I have two longbows and two recurves, so I really don't need another. However, I have a friend very interested in getting into trad archery. If lucky enough to be selected I would pass on the bow to him. Thanks for the video on brace height. I've done some experimenting with brace height as well with similar results. My longbow and recurve seem to perform well at the higher end of the recommended BH. Love your channel...keep up the great work!

ENTER ME! I did my own testing about a year ago. I used a one-piece longbow and a take-down recurve. I saw no difference in draw weight, arrow speed or arrow flight/accuracy at all. I am convinced it makes no difference.

( Enter Me ) Scott I too have found the same things. I tend to try to hang in the middle unless the bow is continuously telling me to go to the higher side! I also do not want to go over the recommended brace height for I truly believe that is what damages the limbs and causes stress fractures in the fiberglass. Thanks again for another great lesson. Take care my friend and God bless.

A shorter brace height creates a longer stroke when releasing an arrow and consequently more speed that a high brace height which does store more energy in the limbs as you mention but that's only in an inertial state. The string has a shorter stroke generating less speed. The shorter brace height's disadvantages are more noise and more wrist slap but more speed. Just wanted to add that the draw weight wont vary much. I speak from experience we other archers as well.

Hi Scott, great video as always, little tip, I always keep one arrow in my quiver which has two marks on it, one for my brace hight lining up with a mark on my shelf and one mark at 28" for testing my draw weight , in my experience there shouldn't be a difference in draw weight when changing the brace height, since you still draw the bow the same distance back every time, maybe the arrow gains more foot pounds of energy on a lower brace hight because the limbs move further on release but I got no data to back this up, anyway have a great week, hope to catch the Livestream even if I can't participate ( living in Europe)

I tried this brace height experiment out and got fairly similar results. It doesn't seem to change the draw weight much at all, but there are always gonna be other variables. Nice video, best regards.

Enter Me Thanks for the video. I'm new to archery and being able to learn stuff like this from experienced people and then reading comments learning even more his amazing!

Scott this is a great presentation. Very thoughtful. One aspect that is missing from most discussions on changes in brace height is the variation bow tension across the bows entire draw length. Some bows start loading tension early and continuously. Others, like Mongol long draw style bows with siyahs, or exceptional bows like Nawalny bows don’t get much of a feel of increased tension. Brace height changes in bows like these doesn’t make much of a difference. Your Scicai may have a similar effect. Thanks again.

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Shoot bare shafts then see how the arrow flight changes when you change brace hieght! A half inch change in brace hieght can make the difference between two or tree degrees in deflection on impact. that is why we should always bare shaft tune our bow befor shooting broad heads. increasing brace hight can help with a tail left shaft, (weak spine) and decreasing brace hieght can help with tail right shaft, (stiff spine). Changing your brace hieght a little bit might save you from having to cut down your arrow more than you might want too or having too change your point weight when tuning your bow.

Hi Scott the ideal brace height has more to do with optimising the behaviour of the bow than it’s performance. (And avoiding wrist slapping😂) Good luck with the giveaway from another European 😢.

Enter Me. Thank you for the information here and in your other videos. Very helpful.

Enter Me Very interesting information about brace height. Thanks for doing the testing and sharing the results.

Hi Scott . Great video and the give away is a wonderful way to help out a fledgling archer. You are a terrific guy. Relative to your experience with your bow and brace height, my experiments have given about a 3 to 4 FPS increase with the shortest brace vs the longest brace. Faster with shortest. I think that is consistent with most experiments I've seen. I do agree that draw weight change is minimal and generally difficult to measure. The extra speed comes from the resulting longer power stroke from a lower brace height. That said, to get the results, I've had to be very careful with draw length, using a clicker or an optical reference . I really appreciate your experiment because is shows the draw to draw variability is significant compared to the changes in brace height. Question for you. I'm 5"11 and an older guy of 61 and legacy weight lifter (meaning old shoulders) and I draw right at 28 inches. How tall are you with a 30 inch draw? That is quite the draw! :) Blessings Brother and let God bless your ministry. Kurt

Enter me You could have put a please of tape at various distances on the arrow. Works good.

Hi Scott, Great video and those are arguments that have gone on for a long time. As for whether brace height affects bow weight my theory is this: Let's say you have the brace height at 8 inches, there will be a certain amount of pressure already in the limbs, let's say 10lbs. You now set your brace height to 9 inches. There will be more of a preload of pressure in the limbs. Lets say 15lbs. Both of these weights are when the bow is at rest. Now when you draw back the bow to 28 inches you are actually drawing the bow an inch more at an 8 inch brace height than you are at a 9 inch brace height. Both draws finish at 28 inches therefore the draw weight at 28 inches will be the same. You are just putting less preload on the limbs at rest at a shorter draw length. That's my theory but of course I could be wrong, I often am if you believe "she who must be obeyed". I hope you are well Buddy and getting lots of archery in. Take care.

Enter me. Hey Scott, Great video; always interesting when you talk bow set-up. I have an old 60 lb. Browning Nomad Stalker II, that I purchased from Herman's Sporting Goods back in the mid 70's. Loved shooting it early on, but as I got older, my draw length increased and it "stacked" like a son-of-a-gun. I think it's only 56 or 58 in. My draw length is also 30 in. I tried different string lengths to adjust the brace height, but it didn't help. Anyway, I could be wrong, I'm no bow building engineer, but it seems to me that the lower brace height might have given you slightly faster arrow speeds because the limb tips are moving farther forward, or may be moving faster on your release, with the longer string. You're drawing 30 in. with each set up, but with the shorter string, the limb tips start further back and stop further back than with the longer string. Not sure if they would be moving even faster with the bigger brace height. I know, sounds counter intuitive, given the limbs are already storing more energy with the bigger brace height. Like I said, I'm no engineer. It's just a guess.

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Enter me. I'm a beginning archer and due to lack of experience I simply set my brace height to halfway between the min and max recommended values.

Great video Scott. I find I shoot better with my brace height set on the high end of what's recommended. Even my red oak self bows that I make shoot better with a higher brace height although most seem to like to keep the BH low for some reason. (Many keep the BH not much more than 6.5". I like mine to be no less than 7.25" and closer to 7.75".) Anyway, cool video and God bless ya!

The higher the brace height, the shorter the power stroke. In other words, the arrow is off the string sooner, a shorter 'catapult'.

Thanks Scott. What the GPP of your Top Archery arrows. Love those shafts.

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Possibly the batteries of the device but great demo thanks❤

Hello Scott my name is Rick riley I got a black hunter 25 lbs. Iam a 65 yr old had shoulder operation I miss order a recurve in stead of a long bow but is ok. Question is trying to set brace height to around 7 1/2 can only get 8 1/16 what can I do string is 56 in could use all the help I can thank you

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