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title: PVC Bow
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date: 2014-12-17
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categories: projects
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excerpt: During the Hunger Games craze back in the day, I decided to take a look at archery. I ended up with something I want to do for a lifetime.
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teaser: /assets/img/2014/pvcbow.jpg
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<sub>Written 10-8-19</sub>
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Likely due to the Hunger Games craze back in the day, I really wanted to get into archery. Throughout my childhood and even now, I haven’t ever shown much interest in sports. For some reason, I was immediately drawn to archery when I found out about it. Later on, I realized that as an engineer at heart, I liked archery because I had to interact with a tool that I could endlessly tinker with and improve.
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Since I didn’t know if archery was just a phase or a lifelong hobby, I decided to build my own bow first. Going off online tutorials, I bought a couple of fiberglass rods to make the core of the bow and some arrows out of. Paracord served as the bowstring, although I later replaced it with a custom bowstring made of fishing line. The draw weight was about 40lb. which was heavy, but I got used to it. Here’s the one video I got of it.
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{% include video id="DT-cAYTV7Ns" provider="youtube" %}
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It’s safe to say that I knew I was going to be doing archery for a long time after that.
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