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Author Topic: Howard Hill Bow Grip  (Read 619 times)

Offline Boomerang

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Howard Hill Bow Grip
« on: June 30, 2009, 07:38:00 AM »
What kind of grip do you prefer on a Howard Hill Bow? Straight, Dished or Locator grip. Which one is more accurate for you?

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Offline Rob DiStefano

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Re: Howard Hill Bow Grip
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2009, 07:44:00 AM »
straight has that classic look, but locator is more functional for me.
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Re: Howard Hill Bow Grip
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2009, 08:09:00 AM »
I got the straight one on my first Hill, and it's okay. But the one that just arrived has the locator, and I prefer it.
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Offline Pete Patterson

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Re: Howard Hill Bow Grip
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2009, 08:28:00 AM »
Mine are all straight.  I've been thinking about a locator and would love for someone to post a pic of their Hill with the locator.
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Offline Pete Patterson

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Re: Howard Hill Bow Grip
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2009, 08:36:00 AM »
Never mind.....I saw Ben's Wesley with a locator on another thread.  Apparently, it's a mild locator that looks similar to a dished grip.  I like it.
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Offline marlon

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Re: Howard Hill Bow Grip
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2009, 08:39:00 AM »
yes all of mine has a locator grip its great.
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Re: Howard Hill Bow Grip
« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2009, 08:50:00 AM »
I go strictly with the straight grip.  Once I got the hang of that grip I don't want anything else.  My friend Dave Wallace builds the Wallace Mountain longbow (IBO world champion with it by the way) and he recently built himself one with a straight grip and says he shoots it better than his dished grip bow.
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Offline Brad_Gentry

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Re: Howard Hill Bow Grip
« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2009, 09:32:00 AM »
My Hill has the dished grip, which I love when I'm shooting it all the time, but if I hang it up (to shoot something else) for a length of time it seems like to takes a long time to get used to it again. I always wanted to try the locator on one.
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Re: Howard Hill Bow Grip
« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2009, 11:16:00 AM »
I shoot mostly straight and dished, and have come to prefer the dished grip, but like others above I'd like to try a locator.
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Offline Romans3

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Re: Howard Hill Bow Grip
« Reply #9 on: June 30, 2009, 11:55:00 AM »
I preffer a larger, straight grip on my Hill bow.
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Offline SpankyNeal

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Re: Howard Hill Bow Grip
« Reply #10 on: June 30, 2009, 12:21:00 PM »
Straight grips, which I prefer, and very mild dish grips. I actually don't shoot the locator grip as well as the others, but that's just me!

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Offline JRY309

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Re: Howard Hill Bow Grip
« Reply #11 on: June 30, 2009, 12:25:00 PM »
I like a mild dish grip on my HH,but have and shoot all three styles of grips.
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Re: Howard Hill Bow Grip
« Reply #12 on: June 30, 2009, 01:13:00 PM »
My first was a locator and my second was a dish. I prefer the locator but have no problems with the dish. In case your unaware, Craig has two size grips, a large and a medium. Best give him your hand demensions when ordering or measure the grip on a HH bow that you like and provide the measurements for accuracy.   :thumbsup:
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Offline Bill Skinner

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Re: Howard Hill Bow Grip
« Reply #13 on: June 30, 2009, 01:37:00 PM »
I prefer slightly dished, then straight.  My lighest Hill has a locater and I shoot the poorest with it.  You left out a type, foreward handle.  I prefer it to all the others.  Bill
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Offline ChristopherO

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Re: Howard Hill Bow Grip
« Reply #14 on: June 30, 2009, 03:35:00 PM »
I had a Hill styled straight grip until last Saturday morning.  Reason it is now a custom grip is that after practicing with it all summer and fall bare handed the first deer hunt was a cold morning that demanded I glove my hands.  I have average to small hands and this grip was 2"+ in depth.  With the glove on it felt like a completely different stick in the hand.  Needless to say I missed what I was shooting at.  I made up my mind at 6:30 am this past Saturday that it would get an overhaul and thus it did.  I like a small grip and now I have one, with curves, too.  Yes, I like it better.  I am not opposed to straight grips but they need to be faily small in diameter to suit me.
I am going to try to post a pictorial on the grip work before too long.
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Offline Jedimaster

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Re: Howard Hill Bow Grip
« Reply #15 on: June 30, 2009, 05:09:00 PM »
Hill locator grip:

 
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Offline Pete Patterson

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Re: Howard Hill Bow Grip
« Reply #16 on: June 30, 2009, 05:28:00 PM »
Thanks Jedi.
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Offline GingivitisKahn

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Re: Howard Hill Bow Grip
« Reply #17 on: June 30, 2009, 07:53:00 PM »
Straight grip for me, thanks.  :-D

 

If it looks a bit dished, it's just because I'd just been shooting and squeezing the sap out of it.
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Re: Howard Hill Bow Grip
« Reply #18 on: June 30, 2009, 10:10:00 PM »
Straight grip for me on my Hills style bows.....just seem to suit me better . having said that , i have not shot much else over the past ten years ....
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Re: Howard Hill Bow Grip
« Reply #19 on: June 30, 2009, 11:37:00 PM »
straight or slightly dished! I tend to torque it with a locator
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