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Title: whats your cant
Post by: nhbuck1 on September 01, 2016, 03:23:00 PM
what degree cant to you guys have if you have one? I am around a one o clock position.
Title: Re: whats your cant
Post by: Tradcat on September 02, 2016, 12:20:00 PM
1-2  O Clock at the most
Title: Re: whats your cant
Post by: Sam McMichael on September 02, 2016, 04:17:00 PM
Very little, no more than about the one o'clock position, unless some obstruction forces me to.
Title: Re: whats your cant
Post by: slowbowjoe on September 02, 2016, 06:16:00 PM
For clear shots (target, most 3d, most roving shots), 1 - 2 o'clock. Longer than 20 yards or so, more vertical.  I do take shots in the woods, sometimes, deliberately, that require more... sometimes 45 degrees to 60 degrees or so.


Close to what Sam just said. You might take a look at nhbuck's post a couple of spots down for more on this.
Title: Re: whats your cant
Post by: BWallace10327 on September 18, 2016, 10:14:00 AM
I try to orient myself as such (left figure, my torso angle, right figure bow angle): | /.  If I need to and my bow further, due to obstruction, I cant my torso to keep the same relative difference.  I don't twist my bow arm more or less to adjust my bow cant.
Title: Re: whats your cant
Post by: Terry Green on September 18, 2016, 11:55:00 AM
What ever the shot calls for ....even reverse can't
Title: Re: whats your cant
Post by: BWallace10327 on September 18, 2016, 07:26:00 PM
Terry, I just watched the extras segment of Master of the Barebow I.  Apparently cant can't effect you.
Title: Re: whats your cant
Post by: Terry Green on September 18, 2016, 07:37:00 PM
Thanks BWallace...

Once you get your form down...which is all above the waist..
you can do a lot of things if you put your mind and body to it.

I did a thread here on this forum called "Cant never could" addressing this....and I did a shooting segment on The Bowhunters of Trad Gang DVD....in which I impersonated Tom Mussato taking a nap and pulled off a shot.

It's a lot of fun jazz ing it up and shows just what you can do with a trad bow.
Title: Re: whats your cant
Post by: jim phenes on October 10, 2016, 09:49:00 AM
terry put it right. the cant is just whatever the shot calls for. when form is there and release is perfect you can shoot upside down inside out. of course I would recommend short distances for the upside down inside out shot.