Rick uses a double anchor, which is his thumb knuckle brushing his earlobe and the back of the cock feather touching his nose. The thumb knuckle is cocked like you were cocking a revolver. The feathers on the arrow are mounted such that the back of the cock feather will touch your nose at full draw, which provides a draw-check, of sorts. For example, on my arrows, the feathers are mounted such that the distance between the quill and the valley of the nock is 2". You will have to experiment to get the right distance. Don't be too quick to fletch a lot of arrows, because it is likely that after you shoot for a while, you will decide that you need to move the feather a little forward or backward from the position you first chose. The feathers that seem to work best with this are left wing with shield cut. This double anchor doesn't work for everyone, because people's faces are different, so if you want to use it, mount the feathers to touch your nose and experiment around with the second part of the double anchor until you find something that works.
After using this for a while, I took a class from Rod Jenkins that increased my expansion a little, and I found out that my orignial feather position was cramping me. By then I had fletched a lot of arrows, and didn't want to change the feather position, so I just moved my anchor under my nose rather than on it, which works just as well and gives me slightly more draw length. Byron Ferguson uses this under the nose anchor, which you can see in the illustrations in his book.
Topic: Just back from Rick Welch Class (Read 2001 times)
