Does anyone look down the right side of the string?

[TexasTrad]

There are some good shooters around here that look down the right side of the string (right handed guys) which they say puts their eye right over the arrow.  This means that one of their anchors is the string touching right between their eyebrows.  Anyone else do this?

[TexasTrad]

Originally posted by TexasTrad:
There are some good shooters around here that look down the right side of the string (right handed guys) which they say puts their eye right over the arrow.  This means that one of their anchors is the string touching right between their eyebrows.  Anyone else do this?

[BobCo 1965]

Or they could to it by having the head cant angle greater than the cant of the bow. Personally, I would not want to do that.

Not sure how they could get a string touch in the location you mentioned though.

[Osage61]

Had an instructor from a Classical Sport school  try to change the way i shoot by lining me up so that the string touched the tip of my nose which of course is right in line with the middle of the eyebrows       This also involved holding my longbow completely straight which was not something i really enjoyed, but there are definitely those who use that method. He was a recurve target shooter, and a really good one, but it wasn't a style for me and my longbow !!

[Stumpkiller]

Originally posted by TexasTrad:
There are some good shooters around here that look down the right side of the string (right handed guys) which they say puts their eye right over the arrow.  This means that one of their anchors is the string touching right between their eyebrows.  Anyone else do this?

Must be real cave-men to get the string to touch their eyebrows!  I wear glasses and 2" brimmed hats and my string clears them, even with a 62" recurve.

I anchor with a middle finger-tip but keep the arrow under my right eye.  The nock is 3/4" or so to the right of that finget-tip touching an upper canine, and the cant of the bow takes the string even further to the rght of my right eye.  I'm guessing more than an inch to the right of my right pupil (I'll have to look in a mirror at home).

I used the same anchor when I shot one of those wheelie bows with a string peep, so the cant from vertical moves it that far to the right of my line of sight.

[Jason R. Wesbrock]

Originally posted by TexasTrad:
There are some good shooters around here that look down the right side of the string (right handed guys) which they say puts their eye right over the arrow.  This means that one of their anchors is the string touching right between their eyebrows.  Anyone else do this?

Actually, that's pretty how much I shoot: vertical bow, string just slightly to the left of my right eye. I used to touch the string to the inside edge of my right eyebrow as a vertical head position check, but don't anymore. I probably got out of that habit when I briefly switched from a 62" to a 60" recurve.