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Shooting while tillering.

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superdav95:

--- Quote from: Pat B on June 11, 2024, 11:32:48 am ---I do the same as these guys. After every scraping session I draw the bow about 20 times to the draw I've tillered too and near the end of the tillering process I do shoot the bow a few times. I also like to "sweat" a bow by bracing it at progressive brace heights as the tillering proceeds for an hour or so early on and up to 6 or so hours near the end of tillering. As a hunter I want to be sure the bow's tiller is solid during the hunt.

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Ya that’s how I do it also.  Once I get it to brace and it looks good I’ll take it to 20” and if still good and below my target weight I will shoot it a bit too.  I like others here will exercise the limbs also but find that shooting it gives me a “feel” for the bow early on in the process.  Often I can get a sense of how fast the bow will be based on how it feels early on and the recovery the limbs make after unstringing it. 

Selfbowman:
All true.

Eric Krewson:
I keep this bag target in my shop for bow shooting while tillering, I shoot a dozen arrows after every scraping session, I shoot from my waist, just quick snap shots.

JW_Halverson:

--- Quote from: Del the cat on June 11, 2024, 06:12:33 am ---I don't shoot during tillering, but certainly exercise the bow, pulling it back and forth plenty of times to exercise it.
I think someone said or wrote, pull it back 20 times after each time you do some work.
Some times a bow will need a little work refining and tuning after it's been shot for a while.
Del

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I may have to start forcing myself to shoot the bows I am making a lot more during the tillering process since several bows in the last few years have radically changed tiller after a few thousand shots. Several were board bows from red oak that had been sitting in the garage for almost 2 years and one was an osage stave I had roughed out and set aside for at least 5 years. I do strongly suspect that the one has been incorrectly strung with a bad step-through stringing technique, something I tell everyone to NEVER do.

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