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Still green and needing advice. Arrow shooting too far to the left?

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bowtarist:
aaron is right. But if you want to lower the spine of the oak shaft, keep it long and put a heavier point on it. This will lower its spine weight and potentially correct your error.  The TBB does have that wrong, for a righty, too much spine shoots left too little shoots right. Spine is measured using a 28" arrow with nails spaced at 26". Every inch over 28" is 5 pounds lighter, every inch under is 5 pounds more spine. This is also true w/ point weight. Spine is done w/ a 125 grain point. More weight weaker spine, less weight more spine. That's the simple definition. Understand? Have a gooder, dp

Also like arron said, Keep them the way they are and copy the oak arrow for your recurve and  copy the other arrow for you selbow.

birdpointlightstring32:
What do you mean by a Nail at 26 inches?  :o

Pappy:
Do you cant your bow while shooting or hold it straight up and down ? You can bring the arrow to the right on a non center shot bow by canting a little more. An arrow out of a non center shot bow shot straight up and down is going to hit left,look at it in the bow,it is already pointed to the left with a right handed shooter and will hit futher left the longer the shot. Nock tail left or right in the target is a completely different thing,that is the spine tail left to weak,tail right to stiff. :) You can weaken the spine by adding length to the arrow adding tip weight,you can stiffen the spine by shorting the arrow or reducing tip weight. :)
   Pappy

birdpointlightstring32:
thank you. Spine tester build along is next on my list.

Pat B:
Derik has it right. When measuring spine by popular standards you start with a 28" arrow with a 125gr field point. This is measured on a spine tester with the uprights(nails in this instance) set 26" apart with a 2# weight hung(or pushing down) from the center. For each inch over 28" you can subtract 5# of spine weight and for each 25grs of tip weight over the 125gr point subtract 5# of spine weight.
  For example...a 30" shaft that is spined at 50# will shoot like a 40# spined arrow(2" over 28" @5# per inch). If you use a 150 gr point(instead of 125gr) that arrow will shoot like a 35# spined arrow.

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