After using brass nocks on my recurve, it started cutting into the serving. I'm pretty sure it was me with my ham fists during installation. Anyway I pried them off, cut the serving off and reserved it, and then using this method, I tied two nocks on and I was back in business. Adjustment was kind of tight but it was perfect. Thank you so much. Jeff Phillips sent me here.
My carbon arrows are tuned the same way (shooting at close range).. I get identical flight from my Howard Hill Wesley Special, 50 lbs. at my 28 inch draw as I get from my Savannah 45 lb. using the same arrow and a vintage Bear Grizzly 48 lbs. Gold Tips, 500 spine, cut at 30 and a half inches and 125 grain field tip. Bear's '59 Kodiak remake uses 30 and a half inch, 400 spine, 125 grain field tip. Interesting video...thanks
Really like those tips! I hate clickers and grip sears but because of that choice target panic takes a lot of work for me to manage. I like shooting open loop too. I don’t shoot tournaments so I can make it work for hunting. Always like to try incorporating different ideas into my shot process to keep my target panic in control.
I will do a RU-vid explanation of arrow flight one day , because all these vids don't understand true arrow flight , your close but the archery world doesn't understand .......Energy and mass when converted to motion , at the correct bare shaft flight , to distance to impact your knock should be 4 degrees knock high on a boss at 90 degrees ....Bow energy......arrow mass.....graverty....distance .the 4 needs to work in harmony .
Yes man. Ive begun promoting an English Yew hunting bow designed I developed, so I'm here soaking up some more knowledge and trying to connect with some archers. Ive sold yew walking sticks to fellas in the states and i like the idea if my bows naking their way there to. Ive done some shorts if the bows in action and i would be honoured if you would come check em out Many thanks!
Trevor - I'm an Osteopath in Scotland 🏴 Why do we naturally Cant a Bow ? It's Biomechanics - if you hold your arm out to your front, as you do when drawing your Bow, your hand will naturally be at an angle between 25 and 35 degrees to vertical. It's at the natural, neutral position, everything is relaxed. If you hold your hand vertically, the hand/elbow/shoulder/neck muscles will become tense. Frankly, it's not a natural posture to maintain. Secondly, when canting a Bow, your eye is over the arrow and your visual field is greatly improved.
I’m new to arrow making, but I stumbled onto this technique of raising and rolling, but I was using a wrench handle to roll and was chewing up the surface of the arrow. I have about 20 hazelnut shafts from my trees in the backyard, seasoned for 24 hours or so, to experiment on, and I have a little pulley I can try. I was surprised how much force was required to straighten, especially around the more dense knots, but I used a similar technique on my Yew bow to make the surface nice and smooth and dense, so familiar with it…
Thought I had heard it all… nope, just learned something new (electrical tape to mimic fletching)… love it… excited to go back through my tunes (perfect arrow flight is so satisfying)…. and will definitely pass this on (and give you credit)… thank you!
Electrical tape you psycho. Love it. I'll try it next time. Never thought it would make enough of a difference with my skill level. But every bit helps. Great intel.
The micro S nock is my nock of choice I replace my aluminums with. That being said: if I can find an arrow with a swaged end, I’ll take that all day because I can glue on the AAE Plastinock.
Your test equipment is working against you for you to draw any concrete conclusions. You have a slow bow, a short draw length, and you are shooting 11.25 grains per pound. If a bow is going to shoot faster due a lighter, skinnier string, the results are going to be minimized in your case due to your equipment. Why don't you use a faster bow, and 9 and 10 grains per pound arrow weight and then see what results you get. It is very difficult to get speed from a 68 inch American Longbow unless you have a 34 inch draw length, which you do not have, otherwise your wooden arrows would have weighed a lot more than 450 grains. Why don't you try a 62 inch Toelke Whip , which is a quick longbow, and test for speed at 9gpp, 10gpp, even 11gpp and you will see greater results. Better yet, use a Centaur Triple Carbon Elite, an A&H ACS longbow, or a Borders Archery Hawk Hunter GL? Those are the 3 fastest longbows made and if there is a significant gain with a skinny string it will show up there as opposed to short drawing a 68 inch bow which isn't fast to begin with, no matter what string is on it.
My 62” whip is slower than the 68” toelke 10x. Those are the fastest. I used equipment a hunter would use. Ive repeated this process many times off camera with all weights of arrow down to 8.5gpp. Results are the same. Skinny strings have no value.
