Hey guys hope you all had/are having an awesome season.
I’ve been really obsessed with shooting my recurve bow for the last 6 months and plan on using it next season exclusively.
I was grouping well enough at 20/25 yards and so I went ahead and bought some new arrows to tune to my bow.
-45lb at 28” (so more like ~41 at my DL of 26” if I had to guess)
-arrow length from point to nock throat: 32.5”
-arrow weight: 509 grains (50gn insert/150 point)
-3 under
My ‘problem’ is this. I’ve been employing gap shooting with some success and so I am sticking to it. Right now I need to hold between the ground and the belly of my 3D deer to hit vitals. I don’t really care for this sight picture. I really want to hold right at the bottom of the belly/arm crease zone to hit vitals. So I did some research and uncovered the fixed crawl/string crawl. I found my 25 yard crawl and my arrows at 5/10/15/20 are basically identical on the vertical axis. The only problem is that this group is still 15”-18” north of my point on.
So how can I get my 5/10/15/20 group closer to my 25yd point on. I would like to explore free options first of course. I have a field point test kit as well but playing with different weights up front (adding weight) didn’t seem to address my issue in a meaningful way. Just moved my 25 yard crawl eventually back up to 3 under the bottom nock set.
So is there something I can do with my nock point? Set my crawl further? Shorter? Anything to try before throwing $$ at it?
and if none of those work, what are the options that will cost money? Longer stiffer arrows? Stronger/weaker limbs? Etc
Hope that made sense and thank you! Hoping there is an obvious answer to this and I am missing it. Educate me!
I’ve been really obsessed with shooting my recurve bow for the last 6 months and plan on using it next season exclusively.
I was grouping well enough at 20/25 yards and so I went ahead and bought some new arrows to tune to my bow.
-45lb at 28” (so more like ~41 at my DL of 26” if I had to guess)
-arrow length from point to nock throat: 32.5”
-arrow weight: 509 grains (50gn insert/150 point)
-3 under
My ‘problem’ is this. I’ve been employing gap shooting with some success and so I am sticking to it. Right now I need to hold between the ground and the belly of my 3D deer to hit vitals. I don’t really care for this sight picture. I really want to hold right at the bottom of the belly/arm crease zone to hit vitals. So I did some research and uncovered the fixed crawl/string crawl. I found my 25 yard crawl and my arrows at 5/10/15/20 are basically identical on the vertical axis. The only problem is that this group is still 15”-18” north of my point on.
So how can I get my 5/10/15/20 group closer to my 25yd point on. I would like to explore free options first of course. I have a field point test kit as well but playing with different weights up front (adding weight) didn’t seem to address my issue in a meaningful way. Just moved my 25 yard crawl eventually back up to 3 under the bottom nock set.
So is there something I can do with my nock point? Set my crawl further? Shorter? Anything to try before throwing $$ at it?
and if none of those work, what are the options that will cost money? Longer stiffer arrows? Stronger/weaker limbs? Etc
Hope that made sense and thank you! Hoping there is an obvious answer to this and I am missing it. Educate me!