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Title: 3 under and hitting left
Post by: 10point on April 29, 2010, 04:57:00 PM

recently swithched from split finger to 3 under.  much better groups but now hitting left. when I go back to split this goes away. any thoughts on how to correct this?

Title: Re: 3 under and hitting left
Post by: Jim Boettcher on April 29, 2010, 07:28:00 PM

Use a thinner side plate.

Title: Re: 3 under and hitting left
Post by: Bill Skinner on April 29, 2010, 09:11:00 PM

Without seeing you shoot, I'll guess dragging your ring finger during your release.  If you don't have a high drawing elbow, I would concentrate on a deep hook and I would make sure my middle finger has at least 1/3 of the load.  The problem with 3 under is to let the top and bottom finger do all the work.  This results in torque.  Bill

Title: Re: 3 under and hitting left
Post by: CEO on April 30, 2010, 05:34:00 PM

The simplest explanation maybe that with 3 under your anchor may have moved slightly to the outside.

Title: Re: 3 under and hitting left
Post by: Gunnar Mullins on May 03, 2010, 05:21:00 AM

IM with Bill, it might be dragging your ring finger on the release.. Occasionally I totally massacre a shot when my ring catches and throws the arrow either way high or way left

Title: Re: 3 under and hitting left
Post by: meangene1969 on May 04, 2010, 10:12:00 PM

I shoot 3 under and when I first switched I was dragging my ring finger alot. Once I started putting more pressure on the middle finger the leftys went away.

Title: Re: 3 under and hitting left
Post by: graysquirrel on May 05, 2010, 04:03:00 PM

ceo hit the nail on the head

Title: Re: 3 under and hitting left
Post by: traditionalbowyer on May 12, 2010, 01:46:00 PM

I can say that I Agree with CEO because that is exactly what has happened to me. I am a right hander and I was hitting left and i just didn't get it.  The I started holding for an extended period and looking at the arrow instead of just the tip.  The tip was on the target but the anchor was slightly to the right of my eye so that the arrow was actually pointing right where I was hitting.  I needed to re-align my shot by taking a little off of my head cant to bring my eye back over the arrow.  I still mis-align but if I hold long enough it all becomes apparent.  Time and repetition are the cures.

Rick

Title: Re: 3 under and hitting left
Post by: English Gaz on May 19, 2010, 12:11:00 PM

What is the reason why you have gone from split finger to 3 under?

Can you confirm if your reference point has changed between the switiching of styles?

Title: Re: 3 under and hitting left
Post by: 10point on May 20, 2010, 07:23:00 AM

I changed to 3 under, with the same reference point, to get my eye closer to the arrow. This did tighten my groups. I later cured the shooting left problem with the blank bale. On the blank bale I concentrated on reaching a firm reference point and clean release,,, a couple of sessions and the problem just went away.

Title: Re: 3 under and hitting left
Post by: Don Stokes on May 20, 2010, 09:25:00 AM

Cant the bow more, if you don't want to change anything else. This moves the impact to the right for a RH shooter.