Aiming marks

[damascusdave]

I can understand the purpose of the three marks in the window area on this bow, but I have no idea what the longer line across the limb is for. Any ideas?
DDave

[damascusdave]

Oops, here is the actual picture that will help the above make sense.

[Rattus58]

Originally posted by damascusdave:
Oops, here is the actual picture that will help the above make sense.    

Growth Line....  

Yeah, I'll take a (big) guess.  

The three in the sight widow = hunting, with anchor in the corner of mouth, or close.  Mark on limb = 20 yard competition with anchor under the jaw.

[Rattus58]

Originally posted by Jim Casto Jr:
Yeah, I'll take a (big) guess.  

The three in the sight widow = hunting, with anchor in the corner of mouth, or close.  Mark on limb = 20 yard competition with anchor under the jaw.

Not being into the nuance of aiming like that, are you saying that one would change your anchor point throughout your shooting or be 3 under for all of it?

I'm not a "gap" shooter by design, though Im sure that "gap" enters into my psyche when aiming, but I'm assuming that if you used a single anchor point, then each of the lower three marks would represent some relatively more distant target than the line above the riser/sight window and if that was the case, wouldn't that upper line represent something like 5 yards?

Much Aloha..  

[Wapiti Bowman]

I think Jim may have hit it on the head. I just gave it a try, and while my sighting line wouldn't have jumped up quite that much, a variation in facial structure and anchor points could make the difference.  

are you saying that one would change your anchor point throughout your shooting or be 3 under for all of it?

No, I think he's saying that when the person was shooting out in the field, hunting, 3-D, whatever, he used the same anchor up on his face, corner of the mouth or even higher; and he used that same anchor for all his shooting in the field. However, when he stepped inside to compete in a Vegas, multi color round, or blue face round, he went to a FITA style anchor under his chin/jaw. With this anchor the string nearly bisects the face and chin, and is used to align the arrow with the spot and control left/right alignment. The whole idea is to get as much consistency as possible because the distance never changes, nor does the size of the spot. Hope that helps clear it up??