Brace height?

[jbarj]

I have an old browning wasp 56" 46# (only info) I have it at 8.5 right now and seems fine. I got to looking around on line and found this http://leatherwall.bowsite.com/tf/lw...GORY=9#1744154 on another forum. Am I wound up to tight? I sure would hate to ruin the bow or the string its been in the family awhile. Thanks for any info.

Jay

[TraditionalRJ]

Brace heights are like your finger prints. They're different per bow, per shooter, per shafting, and per shot. You need to ignore all the "it says this or it's recommended that" as gospel and just start HIGH first to be on the safe side and not load alot of force into the limbs and just slowly back it out a turn or two if it's WAY off until you see and FEEL what you want. Once you get close start backing out a HALF twist til you find the perfect "shot" for you.

Remember as you move in and out on your brace height your nock point moves so be sure to adjust it each time you make a brace height change. Alot of people don't do this because it's a huge pain in the *** but I'd rather do it slowly and take my time and get it right then constantly be "adjusting" after the fact.

[Bisch]

Pretty much what he said^^^^^^^.

Bisch

[jbarj]

Thank you, I did get cought up in all that a little.

[TraditionalRJ]

as far as nock point goes.. I'd set the brace height in the general high area or a point as when you plan on starting to tune for it and shoot at say 10-15 yards. Just get the general grouping (excluding fliers) to hit ROUGHLY in the area you're looking. Any closer won't let the shots clean up in time and too far and the inconsistencies from a not so well tuned bow will be misleading. 10-15 is a good range. Your spine will be affected by the brace height changes. So if the elevation is correct with your "spot" and just off to the left or right a little bit that's not a big deal. Typically they will be to the left if you're a right handed shooter and vice versa due to the "over spined appearance" from the lower energy transfer from a higher brace height but sometimes arrows just do some funky ****. This should clean up as you adjust your brace height down.

I shoot a 7 3/4" brace height out of a recurve that recommends 9 and 1/2". Go figure.

[jbarj]

Makes since to me. I just put 2 and 2 together and got lower brace height = more energy, not saying I was trying to get more out of it I just honestly didnt know. Over time with stretching and all will your nock point stay consistant as long as you keep the sme height?

[TraditionalRJ]

Makes since to me. I just put 2 and 2 together and got lower brace height = more energy, not saying I was trying to get more out of it I just honestly didnt know. Over time with stretching and all will your nock point stay consistant as long as you keep the sme height?

yep

[jbarj]

Thanks very much for the info!