Well, I found out today that what works for my longbow doesn't always work for my recurve. I'm a mess I know, but since my recurve is so much shorter I have to cant the bow more to the side because the string and riser blocks my view of the target. Then when I cant the bow so I can get a good sight picture the string is no longer anywhere close to my nose.
Long story short, my longbow has developed a split/crack whatever you want to call it, around a knot that I couldn't avoid leaving in the limb so I had to quit shooting it. That was the one trouble spot that I was concerned with when I built it and now it's coming back to haunt me.
Oh well, live and learn.
At any rate, I gotta play catch up with my recurve so I can hunt with it in a few short weeks. I could always fall back on my compound, but this was going to be the year I would finally spend more time in the woods with traditional tackle and give it a fair chance.
All isn't lost though, because I was shooting some good groups with my Grizzly this evening by just drawing back to where it felt good, pointing my fist at my 3D buck and letting instinct take over like I have in the past. That seems to be working for now, and maybe I can get started on another Osage longbow fairly soon and have it finished by mid season. It sure was a nice bow while it lasted, but I didn't have high hopes when I started building it and I actually achieved what I set out to do which was build a shootable bow myself. All would have been great except for that one knot.