styksnstryngs
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Well, there is the option of putting on a sight, but most people seem to be averse to that for some reason. Personally, I feel like if you're going that far to chase a setup that makes it so you basically are aiming at the same spot from 5 to 20 yards, you might as well put on a sight and save yourself the trouble, but then again if you want to fit your own definition of "trad" that might not be what you want.I used to shoot a lot of gap. Nocking point to me was as really about how the arrow interacts with the shelf and there is a sweet spot for each bow. Assuming you are three under because your talking about crawling and stuff 3 under typically run higher nocking points compared to split. Low nocking points can do some pretty funky stuff with how the arrow interacts with the shelf. This will be very apparent at shorter ranges before the feathers stabilize the arrow and are hard to see with naked eye. Sometimes you will actually hear the arrow smacking the shelf and get extremely high nocks in the target at shorter ranges. I personally run about 5/8s on my bows. That said I would verify through video to see how the arrow interacts with the shelf. If you are happy that is great. But like stated above, I would adjust weight of arrow and retune if I wanted to adjust my gap at further distances. When I first get a bow I tune the bow for brace and nocking and then don’t touch it after that. All other adjustments I make are strictly to the arrows and I usually don’t recommend don’t adjusting bows to make arrows work how you want them.
If you are shooting good out to 15-20 I’d just go hunting. I think @GCTerpfan and @styksnstryngs had it right though. There are no true get good quick schemes in trad archery. I liken it to a golf swing. Small changes might seem to improve things during a session but the next day and the new changes result in worse accuracy in the long run. Gap is a fine way to shoot but I wouldn’t worry about 25 yards too much. Don’t make too many changes too quickly, and don’t change more than one thing at a time. Realistically my setup hasn’t changed in over 2 years now.
Good luck