Crazy question, your thoughts please.

[Ybuck]

Anyone shoot this way, or have suggestions, or comments about it?
I would like to get the arrow closer to my eye, but maintain my anchor point as is. Which is top finger /corner of mouth/thumb behind jaw bone/3 under hold.
My "idea" is to just slide my fingers downward on the string(obviously to a reference pt. of some sort), therefore bringing the arrow up to my eye.
I'm assuming id have to re-tune, and will my bow still shoot good with such a "off center" hold?
Thank you, Steve.

[McDave]

Your "idea" has a name, which is string-walking, and is an accepted way of aiming the bow.  There is a good section on string-walking in the DVD, Masters of the Barebow II.  People who like this aiming method figure out all the different places they need to hold the string at different distances, so that the arrow point is always point-on to the target.

If you do as you are suggesting, without going into full blown string-walking, two things will happen: your point-on distance with be much less than it was before, and you will have to be very careful to hold the bow vertically, as any deviation from a vertical hold will magnify any aiming errors.

I have always wondered about the effect of string-walking on bow tuning myself, but the effect must not be significant, as it is considered to be one of the most accurate ways of shooting the bow.

I don't happen to like this method, because it introduces some of the complexities back into shooting that I was trying to avoid when I switched from compounds with sights to traditional archery, but there are quite a few people who do like it.

[bsigal]

Have you thought about possibly using your middle finger in the corner of your mouth?

This would raise your arrow up closer to your eye
and you woudn't need to retune.  This shouldn't
affect the bows performance either.

[Ybuck]

Thanks for the responses guys.
bsigal: I have, but havn't given it a fair chance. I'm so used to my current anchor.
Steve.

[bsigal]

Good or bad, Steve, habits are hard to change.

At this time though, I wouldn't change anything until you're done hunting for this year and you have time to work on getting used to the new anchor.  It's the easiest solution for what you want to do.

Ben