Hi friends,
I added now to my web site a new series of shoot tests of Mr Carbon C4 and Kaiman OMER.
Enjoy
http://www.andreapettiti.com/galleria%20foto%20eng.htm
Thank you, Andrea but, can you give us more info?. I guess every comment over your experiences will be fully appreciated.
By example:
- rubber bands used in every spear (brand, size, length...)
- shaft (brand, size, ...)
- what where your impressions?
What I can see in your videos:
Test Omer 83 double band, distance from head 4,5mIt seems you are using same band as Totemsub spears have, maybe 2 bands of 17.5mm.
The shaft seems to be 6mm (standard steel)
The fly of the shaft is cleary visible.
If you review the video step by step, you will see that the shaft combes while exiting the spear. It seems too much band power for such a shaft.
During its fly, the shaft is oscilating a lot. The oscilation is also cleary visible at impact time.
Even being quite well accurated, the shaft is wasting a lot of energy due to oscillations.
Test Omer 75, 4mThe bands seems to explode. Maybe, you are using Power 18 here.
Shaft, could be 6mm.
No appreciable oscillation here. The cam angle is so different from the previous one...
The shaft seems to fly quickly but, impacts low (typical).
Test Cayman 90, 5mThe shot seems lack of energy. The shaft could be 6,5mm and, bands power 18 (standard config).
Slow fly, low impact.
The shaft is also oscillating but not so much as in the 83 double-band test.
Test Cayman 100, double-band, 5mThe shot is powerful but, the secondary recoil of the spear is clearly visible here, while the shaft is trying to leave the spear, the head goes up, and the shaft is moved down.
That remembers me what adviced from my experience. The HF head is not well balanced, exercing excesive floating force.
2 bands are adding flotability to the head.
I guess, you used here the america shaft (6.5mm), 2 power 18 bands.
Did you added the weights to the head?
Did you changed the standard butt for the anatomical one?
I see you are using heterogeneous materials for every spear (bands, shafts, muzzles...). It is very dificult to obtain objective data in such a case.
Why don't you make same tests using same bands, elongation factor, shaft, nylon, etc, etc?
Regards