Any string walkers?

[Legolas]

Just saw the video Masters of the Barebow 2 and was fascinated with the piece on string walking. The point made is that if you shoot point on target it is in focus and shooting is better.

Now I also noted that this guys bow rattled like a bunch of metal pie plates in a trunk. The torque on the limbs is disproportional and I figure arrow flight might suffer.

Any knowledgeable comments?

Thanks.

Paulie

[Skinny Little Runt]

Some neg tiller helps balance the shot. But no it will not quite down.As you saw the closer the range, the further down the sting you go. Pie plates is about right. BUT..my bow setup is 40 yds point on. Up to that point, if I do my job there are no misses.
String walking is a rear sight.

[Steertalker]

I shoot normal split fingered out to 50yds.  But beyond that I start string walking and face walking.  Haven't really noticed much tuning or noise issues.

Brett

[Smallwood]

watch modern traditional it's good. my accuracy really improved with the string walking, but i am going to stick with instinctive/3 under.

[brettlandon]

I learned string walking on a Ben Pearson recurve when I was a boy.  I shot two under and could walk the arrow out to 45 yards.  The bow sounded terrible but I beat a lot of others with this "bare bow" technique.  Later, I learned to change my hold position walking down my face for longer shots.  This allowed the bow to be better balanced with the arrow and increased my yardage to 65 or 70.  Not bad with a 30# recurve.  Now I shoot selfbows exclusively and shoot purely instinctively.

-Brett

[speedbump]

I learned to shoot as a string walker, shot my first deer this way at 14 y.o. it is effective/accurate and never noticed any noise issues. I enjoy instintive better now....no yardage guess work needed, just shoot!

[gilf]

I was shooting with somebody in France at a 3D comp a few weeks ago who was string walking and I remember distinctly that the bow was really noisy. I was thinking at the time how can an obviously good and knowledgeable archer not set his bow up so that the noise is reduced.

Now having said what you have legolas it makes sense, string walking will have an effect on the bow and it was that aspect which was causing the problem.

I would imagine any negative effect on the arrow would be got back on better accuracy.

[George D. Stout]

You better have that baby super-tuned if you're going to shoot broadheads via stringwalking.  A bow's tiller is set up for split or three under, and moving the fingers down the string will negate tiller and cause flight fluctuations.  Fore-warned is fore-armed.  For hunting I see no advantage; for target it's like adding a sight and is quite an advantage.

[wingnut]

Rusty is string walking these days and was in camp for elk last year shooting broadheads.  He outshot everybody by a margin and his bow was dead quiet.  I think it depends on the setup.  I know he can drill the bull at 50+ yds every time if he knows the yardage.

Mike

[George D. Stout]

True Mike, but you have to know the yardage.  I never had the patience or inclination to spend that much time refining anything.  Too much stuff to keep in my bone head.  I've never seen a quiet bow shot at very close range by a string walker.  They have to hold about two inches below the arrow and most are quite noisy.  Good for him on his tuning.

[Brent Hill]

I don't know if this helps but here goes.  I sorta string walk with a touch of gap shoot.  When I shot strictly gap, the gap that I had at 15 / 20 yards (where most of my targets and all of my hunting occurs) appeared to be 2 plus feet between the point of the arrow and the target and became difficult to master especially in tree stand hunting.  I read about string walking but was concerned about how the limbs would be affected / tuning issues and my inablity to tune hunting arrows with numerous points of draw.  To avoid the constant counting ( which I'm bad at) and the several different positions on the serving to draw from, I picked one spot on my serving (about and inch and 1/4) under my knock which shortened the gap that I see when shooting my customary 15 / 20 yard shots and put a separate knock at that point.   Now at twenty yards, my gap is about 12 inches from point of my arrow to target, almost spot on at 30 yards and so on.  Since I'm only using one point at which to draw the bow from, I can still tune my by just like when I shot before and have gotten all of my recurves reasonably quiet.  Hopefully this may help.  BH