Question for you all

[Schultzy]

The last few weeks my shooting has been pretty good but my arrow flight has been not so good. A couple of weeks ago when a bunch of us were out stumping one of the guys said to me "when I draw my recurve back my top limb twist's some". Could this be causing bad arrow flight? IMO I think It could and I never really thought about It till yesterday when we were out stumping again. Yesterday my arrow flight was the worst It's ever been this year by far. Pretty sure my release's were nice and clean and my grip was no different then any other time. If the limb twist Is the culprit, this Is not good!!! :mad:  I've been using this same recurve going on 14 years this year and never have I had arrow flight this bad and consistent.

[Orion]

You can check for limb twist by drawing the bow and letting it back down slowly.  If a limb is badly twisted, the string won't reseat in the string groove on the recurve.  Rather, it will run to one side.  Just viewing the bow along the string, from tip to tip, will detect a smaller twist if one exists.  

I've shot bows with twisted limbs, and didn't notice poor arrow flight associated with them.  I'd look to other things.  Has your brace height changed, nock point slipped?  Are you using different spine, length, shafts?  Different weight heads, etc.  Good luck.

[Schultzy]

Sometimes I do have to twist the top limb to get It back In line with the string groove but not all to often do I have to. This very well could be form related but I just find It hard to believe It Is. Arrows are the same. I did try upping my FOC with my 2216's but wasn't getting good consistent arrow flight with my field points so I went back to my old set up that I've been using for 14 years. So no nothing has changed In my arrow set up.

[Roy Steele]

If your bows been set up before the limb twist YES it can.As your limb twist and gets worse it changes on nosk point up or down witch will change your arroe flight.
 After 14 years you may want to retire your bow no one likes to do it but some times it must be done.I have a few in the corner for one reason or another.
  Look at it like this its not a bad thing.You will get a different bow out of the deal.It's almost as bad as loseing a good dog or a bad old lady.Maybe I should'nt put it like that.
  ANYWAY IT'S NOT A BAD THING.

[dragon rider]

If you get bad enough limb twist you can find your string coming off the twisted limb at full draw, which has the potential to get downright ugly.

Mostly I agree with Roy, though I'd compare it more to getting a new puppy to train after the pain of losing a good dog has started to ease.  You don't forget the old one, you just start to enjoy the new one.

[Schultzy]

Thanks Roy and Dragon!!