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burchett.donald:
 DC,
          Nocking points are very important to me, knowing just 1/8 to low on the string will give me a high kick off my hand...Shooting off the hand puts the arrow closer to my pivot point and allows me a greater degree/range of canting depending on the situation...Only draw back for me is I have sat hours with my shooting hand in position to keep the arrow ready...
                                                                                                                                         Don

DC:

--- Quote from: burchett.donald on October 14, 2015, 09:16:29 am --- DC,
          Nocking points are very important to me, knowing just 1/8 to low on the string will give me a high kick off my hand...Shooting off the hand puts the arrow closer to my pivot point and allows me a greater degree/range of canting depending on the situation...Only draw back for me is I have sat hours with my shooting hand in position to keep the arrow ready...
                                                                                                                                         Don

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Can you define "pivot point" for me. I've not heard that before, I don't think.

burchett.donald:
  DC,
          Pivoting would be the grip, the bow/canting...If the arrow is up high on a rest it is further from your pivoting hand and would move more than if on the hand during a change in your cant...Some bowyers or archers try to set the shelf as close as they can to the hand. All this stuff really is a personal choice, I have shot both. I am more comfortable and accurate off my hand, but I'm used to doing that way...I may need to cant differently at times, but I'm a hunter...
                                                                                                                                      Don

punch:
I use a nock on the string but could get by without one. When I was messing around with a short bow I shoot it without a nock after awhile it was easy to put it in the same place consistently.  As far as the hand I cut my leather grip to the bottom of the arrow pass. I know I'm in the right place when the Web of my hand is touching the top of the leather grip.

Strelets:
I find that I am better off without a nocking point. The eye can judge a right angle very accurately, then move the arrow up a little if you think it should be slightly higher than "dead square". If your hand is in a different position from shot to shot, then so will your arrow be if you use a nocking point.

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