Al/Jerald,
Thanks! Yes, it is a great shooting bow. It took me quite awhile to get to the point that I could shoot it up to its capabilities.
I shot it at the Archery Shop on the indoor 20 yard range for about 2 hours today. I'd have a shot that went exactly where I was looking, but then I'd have 5 or 6 others that would go anywhere but where I was looking.
In fact, I had one string of 6 shots that were at the same level on the target, but were distributed the full width of the target, about 3-3.5 ft. I was really getting frustrated.
Then a fella I've been shooting with for quite awhile gave me a couple of suggestions. He suggested I use a low wrist grip, shoot three fingers under and anchor the arrow with my nose on the back edge of the top hen feather.
I made those changes and also made another change, closing my left eye and leaving my right/shooting eye open. The groups at 10 yards became very tight. On my last group I did something I'd never done before with wood arrows. I shot a robin hood with my cedar arrows.
The nock of the arrow in the target was broken and driven down the back end of the shaft a bit. The back end of the shaft was also split down the center about 6 inches. The only thing that kept it from being a true robin hood is the second arrow didn't remain stuck in the first arrow in the target.
I think I'm going to like this bow!
Bill
Thanks! Yes, it is a great shooting bow. It took me quite awhile to get to the point that I could shoot it up to its capabilities.
I shot it at the Archery Shop on the indoor 20 yard range for about 2 hours today. I'd have a shot that went exactly where I was looking, but then I'd have 5 or 6 others that would go anywhere but where I was looking.
In fact, I had one string of 6 shots that were at the same level on the target, but were distributed the full width of the target, about 3-3.5 ft. I was really getting frustrated.
Then a fella I've been shooting with for quite awhile gave me a couple of suggestions. He suggested I use a low wrist grip, shoot three fingers under and anchor the arrow with my nose on the back edge of the top hen feather.
I made those changes and also made another change, closing my left eye and leaving my right/shooting eye open. The groups at 10 yards became very tight. On my last group I did something I'd never done before with wood arrows. I shot a robin hood with my cedar arrows.
The nock of the arrow in the target was broken and driven down the back end of the shaft a bit. The back end of the shaft was also split down the center about 6 inches. The only thing that kept it from being a true robin hood is the second arrow didn't remain stuck in the first arrow in the target.
I think I'm going to like this bow!
Bill
