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I can’t stress enough how much the limb driven clicker helped me. My tip on that is don’t set it up at your anchor. Set it up ~1/8” past your anchor so that the only way it clicks is with proper back tension. Oh and throw away that metal chain it comes with and use d-loop string. The clicker will be completely silent when you shoot. Once I got in the groove with proper back tension my shooting really took off. Check out masters of the bare bow vol 3 too. That video also helped me tremendously.

Sorry that was a lot, I get excited.
Thanks for the tips!
I've heard the title masters of the barebow before, I'm going to have to check them out.
 
I shoot bare fingers in all conditions never have to worry about losing glove or tab LOL
 
Something that I think would be beneficial for you is to have someone to slow-mo video some shooting from directly behind you in line with the arrow and from above you like off a step ladder and some shots at 90 degrees from the draw side. Those 2 shots will let you see your arrow flight and it will show how good your form is or is developing. And you can post them if you want to for feed back from the peanut gallery.
 
Nope just dig in LOL
In all seriousness I have used tabs and gloves in past and I used them fine but I feel I get a cleaner release and more feel on the string and way more consistent in my draw cycle plus less fumbling when I go to make a shot on a animal. I can shoot 100 shots without any damage to my fingers
 
Nope just dig in LOL
In all seriousness I have used tabs and gloves in past and I used them fine but I feel I get a cleaner release and more feel on the string and way more consistent in my draw cycle plus less fumbling when I go to make a shot on a animal. I can shoot 100 shots without any damage to my fingers
Makes my eyes water just thinking about 100 shots with no glove or tab. Envious of that ability.
 
Ok guys, so this is the xth time I've picked up this stick and string since I received it 3 years ago. But... since cracking the limb on my compound, I figured why not give this a real go.
Sooo, I bought some cheap 500 spine arrows, an arm guard, a three finger glove... and started flinging!

60" recurve, 40# on limbs
I've measured my draw length at 29"

Since first beginning, and every time I've picked it back up, I've been working on form. I think it's getting fairly consistent. Tonight at 12 yards I put 7 out of 11 in a 5" circle, with 4 stacked on top of each other center bull. The 4 outliers weren't too far off.
I've come to prefer 3 fingers under, middle finger anchored at corner of mouth, a slight cant, and aim down the arrow.
I believe the riser to be center cut, and I'm currently just shooting off the wood shelf.

So, what is the next step in the progression in tightening up? I've heard so much about tuning bows and arrows... where to next?

Next step is tuning some hunting arrows. As folks have said, with a light weight trad bow you’ll want a 10-12 grain per pound arrow with a high FOC arrow. It’s worth reading the Ashby report stuff, it makes sense.

What you do is buy a test kit of bare shafts (like from 3Rivers) and a test kit of points. And then you bare shaft tune until you get good arrow flight. Spine, point weight, arrow length, nock height, and brace height are the major things to worry about at this point.

You can try to tune for a particular point weight (insert and broadhead) if you have a broadhead picked out or you can figure out what works for your bow and then buy inserts, and broadheads to match. A small adjustment of brace height will help if you get it close enough.

When you bare shaft tune make sure you have a foam target, bags will give you a false idea of nock direction.
 
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