BH and NH For Dale Dye Recurve

[WildmanSC]

What BH and NH (3 fingers under)do you folk use on your Dale Dye T/D recurves?  Also, if you have a non-FF 62" T/D Dye recurve, what length B50 string do you use?  My Dye T/D is 62", 54#@28".  I did a review of it in the Product Review forum.

Bill

[Frank1107]

Bill,

57" string on a 62" (56" on a 60"). Brace height 7 3/4" - 8" always worked on all of the Dye bows have or had (including the one I got from you)Nock height, you have to play with depending on arrow, release, etc.

Frank

[1/4 away]

Bill, I shoot split fingers but my Dye's BH is set at 8" and my nock is 1/2" above center.  Fred

[WildmanSC]

Frank/Fred,

Thanks for your responses.  I'll check tonight and see where I have the BH and NH set.  Frank, I know you are shooting a B50 bow.  Fred, how about you?  I've given some thought to sending the bow off to have it reinforced for FF, but as it is it flings a 625 gr arrow, 11.6 gr/pdf, pretty good.  And it is very quiet and dead in the hand.  So, I think I'm going to keep it just like it is.

Bill

[1/4 away]

Bill, Mine is B50 as well and is dead quiet. My carbon arrows weigh in at 580gr and are flyin plenty fast for me. I see no need for FF on this bow.

[WildmanSC]

My BH is 8".  I'll have to wait until I go to the Archery Shop on Saturday to check the NH.  It shot real well where I have it for my 3-under grip.

Bill

[Danny Rowan]

Bill, I shoot split finger and my Dye is at 8 1/4"BH and 9/16 nock dead silent and plenty fast,the string is 58" on this 62" bow. I shoot the same arrows as I shoot out of my ff bows and it is everybit as fast as they are even though it is b50 only. I have a 64" set of ff limbs I am gonna try on it that are 64#.

Danny

[WildmanSC]

Danny,

Yes, the Dye is surprisingly fast for a bow shooting a B50 string.  The limbs have a rather exaggerated hook on the ends, very similar to a Wapiti recurve by Chastain.  The Dye bow, however, is a much sharper looking bow in every respect than the Chastain bows.

Bill