Playing with my wifes 35lb sammick sage and setting it up as a lighter bow for me to practice for form. Defletched 3 of my longbow arrows (making flu flus of them in the end) and started working on nock height. Started out around 1/2" high, shooting at around 15 yds. Bareshafts kept indicating nock high but good spine. Kept shooting at least 3 groups before making adjustments, but got down to just under 1/4" above the shelf before groups started to tune. That's the first thing that bugs me, but i also see that the lower limb is tillered about 1/4" more than the upper limb, and im a 3 under shooter. But still unsure if that makes things seem right. By this point the nock is right but now it shows stiff spine. Moved from 145 to 175 before it got close. Tomorrow i will go to 200 gr tips. For the record, these are beman 400 at 31". Not altering length since this is for fun/learning.
Something that gets me, that i wanted to ask about is....
I got to a point where the groups i was shooting were unbelievable for me (at least lately, i used to shoot better). I had 145 tips still and the nock was probably about 3/8" or just a hair under. Bares were stiff and nock high, so shooting liw and left of fletched. Fletched were so tight that i finally got my first robinhood. I had about 4 rounds of fletched arrows touching each other before i made more adjustments.
My question for wise.... if you got to a point that arrows were grouping that tight, but the bares did not agree, would you keep tuning or spend more time with that tight group setup? I didn't do any varying of yardage, so for all i know, it was only good at that specific yardage. Should i try to raise the nock again and find that spot to spend more time there, even though the bareshafts disagree? Kind of wondering if the bareshaft method is always better than finding something like i did...
Sorry i make such a story of things, but i like telling my stories.. here's what my robinhood shot looked like and where the bareshafts were.
Something that gets me, that i wanted to ask about is....
I got to a point where the groups i was shooting were unbelievable for me (at least lately, i used to shoot better). I had 145 tips still and the nock was probably about 3/8" or just a hair under. Bares were stiff and nock high, so shooting liw and left of fletched. Fletched were so tight that i finally got my first robinhood. I had about 4 rounds of fletched arrows touching each other before i made more adjustments.
My question for wise.... if you got to a point that arrows were grouping that tight, but the bares did not agree, would you keep tuning or spend more time with that tight group setup? I didn't do any varying of yardage, so for all i know, it was only good at that specific yardage. Should i try to raise the nock again and find that spot to spend more time there, even though the bareshafts disagree? Kind of wondering if the bareshaft method is always better than finding something like i did...
Sorry i make such a story of things, but i like telling my stories.. here's what my robinhood shot looked like and where the bareshafts were.
I'm sure Rick, Bisch or others can chime in to guide your technical questions.
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