Bow cant and tuning

[BowDiddle]

Probably been posted here before, but here it is again.

Watch this video. It reveals a lot about what paradox is & does, and how the cant of the bow changes it.

  Slow Motion Arrow Paradox

[ChrisM]

Originally posted by Jeff Strubberg:
I'm gonna go against the grain here.

#1, if you've done it correctly.

The arrow paradoxes around the bow riser regardless of what degree or horizontal or vertical that riser is being held at.  Remember, the string hand is also rotating as the bow rotates.  All should be in the same plane if you aren't commiting some kind of form error.

If the bow is upright, the shaft is flexing (mainly) east and west.  If you lay the bow over 90 degrees, the shaft will now flex north and south.  The same flex and recovery will be required in both positions to get good arrow flight.

The flex of the shaft has nothing at all to do with up, down or sideways.  The direction of the initial flex is away from your fingers, regardless of whether that means horizontal or vertical.

In my previous post I was just being pinheaded and stating stuff the way I was taught to.  And yes what I said is what you said.

[Jeff Strubberg]

30coupe,

That's definitely one way to do it.  The danger in the simple approach is that when something changes, you're never sure why it changed.  If you don't know why, it's darn hard to figure out how to fix the problem.

I could have probably put up a much shorter post and jsut said that since we can get good arrow flight canting the bow 90 degrees, we know that cant doesn't affect arrow flight.  I was jsut trying to give a bit more why.