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Main Boards => The Shooters FORM Board => Topic started by: jeeperjesse on March 22, 2007, 02:05:00 PM
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Hi all,
New member here, but I've been foraging for info from this fantastic group 'o guys for months and months.
Anyway, got a first real question that I need help with.
I bought a bow for my wife (for Valentines Day! You know, the cupid thing, it came with a pink arrow. Awww, cute, eh?). Anyway it's used, an older homemade recurve slightly funky, 34# @ 28" and I put a Neet pro-rest on it because I didn't like the shelf. The problem I'm having is that everything shoots off of it nock right. I tried every flavor arrow I own, heavy and light arrows, cedar spined 45#, short and long 2211's (28" and 33"), "mediumish" spine homemade arrows (5/16" poplar), even our 24" kiddie arrows (2.5" 3 fletch). Everything comes off it nock right. I've tinkered with brace height and nock point with no effect on the left-right nock problem.
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Any ideas? Thanks.
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Is the riser cut past center?...Van
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Just went and looked at it. Without putting calipers on it or anything, visually it looks dead center.
UPDATE: For anyone curious, I found that moving the brace height quite a bit farther out than I had before resolved the problem. It's quite a bit further than I'm used to, but, hey, whatever works!
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imo it could be your arrows are too stiff for a right hand shooter or maybe you are not bending your bow arm elbow and it's throwing your shots off to the left.
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it could also be you are plucking the string off your face
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Hmmm...what does "plucking the string off of the face" mean?
Spine isn't the issue since even kiddie arrows do it. Could be elbow flex.
Thanks for the input.