New to Me Groves Flame Recurve

[Shadowhnter]

Nice!

[WildmanSC]

I haven't had a chance to shoot it yet.  I'll be going into town shortly and I'll pick up a target so I can shoot it.  The pics don't do the bow justice.  The grain in the riser is absolutely gorgeous.

Bill

[WildmanSC]

I finally shot the bow this past Saturday.  It took me 5 shots to get the bow hitting where I was looking.

I heard the first shot, at 10 yards, smack the target, but when I looked at the target I couldn't see the arrow sticking out of the target anywhere on its face.  So, I walked up to the target, looked and couldn't see any indication that it had hit the target.  I walked around behind the target and couldn't see any indication of a hit there either.  I continued walking around the target and just as I got to the front I noticed a small hole in the extreme upper right corner of the target, I had barely clipped.  I found the arrow about 15 yards behind the target in the woods.

I took the next shot at 5 yards and it hit about 6" above and 4" to the right of my point of aim.  So I switched to a 400 spine Victory arrow and it hit even higher.  For my fourth shot I switched back to my Carbon Express Maxima Red 350 arrow and this time I nocked it above the nock point I crimped onto the string.  Theis shot hit dead on my point of aim horizontally and about 1/" high.  My firth shot I switched back to the Victory 400 spine arrow, nocked it above the nock point and it hit about 1.5" higher than the Maxima Red with the same aim point.

I took the bow into the house and crimped on a new nock point 1/4-5/16" above the first nock point and removed the first nock point.  I haven't shot it again, yet.  It's a sweet shooting bow, hits hard and hits where I aim with the Maxima Red 350 arrow with 200 gr up front.

Bill

[WildmanSC]

My son-in-law picked up my new NAP Flipper rest for me yesterday.  I've got it installed and when it cools down this evening I'm going to go out and shoot a few arrows.  My new endless loop shipped today and I should receive it on Thursday.  After I install it I can get down to some serious shooting!

Bill

[WildmanSC]

I really like the NAP Flipper rest. I think I need to adjust it in a bit. My arrows are impacting a bit left and further left as I back up.

My arrows are hitting in the 1.5" white circle in the center of my bag target at 5 and 10 yards. But then they drop about 8 or 9" when I back up to 15 yards. I'm going to have to work on form and possibly have to switch to my Victory 400 spine arrows with 125 or 145 grains up front instead of my 200 grain points on my Maxima Red 350s.

Bill

[WildmanSC]

I really like the NAP Flipper rest. I think I need to adjust it in a bit. My arrows are impacting a bit left and further left as I back up.

My arrows are hitting in the 1.5" white circle in the center of my bag target at 5 and 10 yards. But then they drop about 8 or 9" when I back up to 15 yards. I'm going to have to work on form and possibly have to switch to my Victory 400 spine arrows with 125 or 145 grains up front instead of my 200 grain points on my Maxima Red 350s.

Bill