Question on fixed crawl

[Dr.Squall]

Hello everyone,
I have hunted traditional for 30 years now.   I do shoot 3 under.  I do cant my bow and was wanting to set a fixed crawl for about 20yds.  Can I still cant my bow or do I have to shoot it vertical?  I usually hunt with either a zipper recurve  or a BW recurve. 
Thanks
Jon

[McDave]

If you can shoot your bow using gap with your cant, you can shoot it with a fixed crawl, because it's basically the same concept. If your cant isn’t very extreme, and if it is consistent, you can probably do it, but you'll have to cant pretty close to the same angle every time to be accurate.

[Dr.Squall]

Thanks,
With me being left handed I cant around a 11 o'clock angle.  I will experiment with it some.  I just have always canted because I mostly hunt out of ground blinds.

Thanks again
Jon

[McDave]

11:00 doesn't seem that extreme to me.  My normal cant is maybe 2-3 degrees, and I can shoot with a fixed crawl just fine.  Probably I can reproduce my normal cant easier than I could manage to hold a dead vertical without using some kind of bubble level.  After all, we're not trying to hit a 5” circle at 70 meters; we're happy hitting a 6” circle at 15-25 yards.

[Dr.Squall]

yeah your right.  I limit my hunting shots to 25.   I just need to find the crawl.  I wonder if I will need different spine arrows?

Thanks
Jon

[McDave]

My hunting bow has a fixed crawl set for 20 yards, and I don't ever intend to shoot that bow any other way, for practice or for hunting.  I don't want to have to make any decisions at the time of truth other than when to draw and when to shoot.  It is too easy to make a mistake and grab the string in the wrong place if you shoot the bow sometimes from the crawl position and sometimes from the normal position. Because of that, I re-tune the bow for the crawl position.  I do not find that I need to use a different spine of arrow, but I do find that I have to adjust the nock point upward to get level bare shaft flight.  This makes sense to me because if I’m holding the string about 3/4” lower than the normal position, moving the nock point up moves my string grip closer to the normal position.  Of course, you're not going to move the nock point 3/4” up, but it could be 1/4” up + or -, based on bare shaft tuning.

[Dr.Squall]

That is what I am going to do as well.  I think that will make things more simple for hunting and practicing both.
Thanks again for you help and insight

Jon