Setting up my recurve......???

[HumbleHunter]

I just recieved a new to me recurve that has me puzzled alittle bit.

It's a 62" Damon Howatt Hunter 50# @ 28", I REALLY LIKE THIS BOW, it's pretty and it's quiet. I'll see if I can get pics up sometime of this bow.

My question is this:
With the current set up it has a hair style rest and striker plate on. When I shoot it as I normally do shoot, it throws every arrow I own to the right IF I look down the shaft of the arrow for alignment. I stuck a tooth-pick under the striker to make it alittle thicker, then one under the rest at the deepest point of the throat as well. Still throws them to the right. I thought maybe it's just that my arrows are too weak spined. NOT so, I put a CX heritage 350 on it and it still throws them to the right if I look down the shaft. That arrow should be WAY over spined for that weight. Here's what puzzles me, if I ignor the arrow and just focus on the spot I want to hit, it seems to fly pretty much true.

If I just come to full draw, anchor, focus, and then look where the shaft is, it's pointing to the LEFT. I'm confused. It hits RIGHT of where the shaft is pointing, I don't get it. I might could understand it if the Bow wasn't cut to center as much as this one is.

The other bows that I shoot, I check my alignment by the shaft of the arrow. The arrows seem to fly straight off them. Should I just focus on the spot I want to hit and not care if the arrow is pointing off to the left? Or should I figure out what I need to do to get the arrow straight and not hitting to the right?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, Have a great day, HH

[jhansen]

"If I just come to full draw, anchor, focus, and then look where the shaft is, it's pointing to the LEFT."

"if I ignor the arrow and just focus on the spot I want to hit, it seems to fly pretty much true."

I suspect the answer is in those two statements.  I'd suggest that you bare shaft tune to be sure all is well where spine is concerned and then quit worrying.  As for the arrows you have tried, keep in mind that a weak arrow and one that is way overspined will both shoot like they are weak.  You may need to be somewhere in the middle.

John

[HumbleHunter]

I did not know that a way overspined and a week arrow will both shoot like a weak one. Thanks John, I sure appreciate it! Have a good day, HH