Main Discussion Area > Shooting and Hunting

Is there a way to tune a selfbow?

<< < (2/3) > >>

Pappy:
Try canting your bow to the right,that will bring your group over,selfbows are usually not center shot so they will soot left for a right handed shooter and right for a left handed shooter. :)
   Pappy

Kegan:
You can tune a selfbow to your arrows just like any other bow. If you have a set of arrows that are consistent, and they strike left- they are stiff. If you have them grouping right, they are weak. If they fly hich, your nock point is low, if they group low then the nock point it too high. Normally, you "fine tune" by reading these groups by shooting the arrows without fletchings, but fletched will still work (it helps if you can shoot them farther too).

If they are STIFF: Raise the brace height and/or sand your arrow pass. Rasing the brace height slightly boosts weight, but more than that it means the angle the arrows are at brace is lessened. If you have "optimum brace height", or whatever, then just sand your arrow pass. If you get to about 1 1/16" from centershot (provided the bow can go that far) or a brace height of more than 7", just get lighter arrows.

If they are WEAK: Lower your brace height, or build out the arrow pass. Layers of leather is a good way to do that. Like making your bow "more centershot" for heavy arrows, if you get to the point where it's just rediculous, then switch to lighter arrows.

zeNBowyer:
spine  abnormalities  usually  entail  the  arrow  striking the  target at  an  angle, they  rarely  group  well if they  are  not  properly  spined enough  to shoot left  or right  of the  target

FlintWalker:
Sounds like your arrows are a bit stiff.  Try some heavier tips. If you're using say..125 grain. Stick a 160 or so on there and see if it doesn't pull the groups over. ;) Or... strip the feathers from one of them and shoot it along with the fletched ones. That'll tell the tale.
 I get better flight from heavily front loaded arrows.
  The carbons I shoot from my glass bow have 100 grain inserts and 250 grain points. :o

PeteC:
Woodsman,it sounds like your POC's are spined a little heavy for that bow.Generally,with a selfbow,shooting arrows with 10 lbs. less spine weight than that of your bow usually work pretty good.Your 50 pounder would probably handle arrows with a 40# spine better.Also, like previously mentioned,you could try heavier points to tame the spine a little.  And don't forget that around here,all over our part of the country,we've rich in switch cane,and it makes an arrow that selfbows really like. ;)  God Bless

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page