When do you say "good enough"?

[George Tsoukalas]

I crave good arrow flight. That is I want to see nothing but fletch on the way to the target. I do tend to "grade' the arrows as does Vermonster. Bow, what does "flip" mean? Jawge

[Tree Ghost]

adirondack46r,

Be careful if you think that your on the edge with your settup.  I have experienced, and watched friends who shoot settups which are kind of borderline in calm conditions, to only find that shooting in a wind can cause the arrow to plane with a broadhead on it and wonder how the heck they (and myself) missed the mark by a couple of feet.

[adirondack46r]

Originally posted by George Tsoukalas:
I crave good arrow flight...

Me too, man!

... what does "flip" mean? Jawge

Most times a flip means a vertical movement and occasionally, more of a horizontal movement. I worked more last night and found a couple of things.

1. My nock placement was borderline. Putting broadheads on made this a little more obvious. A few minor adjustments of the nock improved things.

2. Something that just totally blew my mind when I realized it was that when I stood close to my target the problems were more pronounced. The reason was that I was shooting at a block sitting on the ground (the block was sitting on the ground, not me ;-). Hence the close I moved toward the target, the sharper the angle down I was shooting. I was not bending at the waist so the string pinch was much more pronounced up close than it was at 20 yards. It made an amazing difference. Consciously bending at the waist when shooting up close improved things.

3. I had two arrows that had nocks aligned with the seam of the wrap. The wrap was overlapped slightly and created a bump. When the knock was aligned so that that bump hit the strikeplate, arrow flight was more likely to be affected. Rotating the nocks improved things.

Shooting with broadheads was very helpful. My form probably still needs work, but I can usually tell when I make a bad release that effects arrow flight.

So... this appears to be a game of making incremental improvements.

Thanks for the help.

[adirondack46r]

Originally posted by adirondack46r:
 

Originally posted by George Tsoukalas:
I crave good arrow flight...

Me too, man!

 

... what does "flip" mean? Jawge

Most times a flip means a vertical movement and occasionally, more of a horizontal movement. I worked more last night and found a couple of things.

1. My nock placement was borderline. Putting broadheads on made this a little more obvious. A few minor adjustments of the nock improved things.

2. Something that just totally blew my mind when I realized it was that when I stood close to my target the problems were more pronounced. The reason was that I was shooting at a block sitting on the ground (the block was sitting on the ground, not me ;-). Hence the close I moved toward the target, the sharper the angle down I was shooting. I was not bending at the waist so the string pinch was much more pronounced up close than it was at 20 yards. It made an amazing difference. Consciously bending at the waist when shooting up close improved things.

3. I had two arrows that had nocks aligned with the seam of the wrap. The wrap was overlapped slightly and created a bump. When the knock was aligned so that that bump hit the strikeplate, arrow flight was more likely to be affected. Rotating the nocks improved things.

Shooting with broadheads was very helpful. My form probably still needs work, but I can usually tell when I make a bad release that effects arrow flight.

So... this appears to be a game of making incremental improvements.

Thanks for the help. [/b]