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How to "shoot in" a bow when you cannot shoot?

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bentstick54:
Doug, I think PatB summed things up pretty good. I pretty much do like he suggests in the last few inches of final tilling. Then actually shooting the bow at full draw for 100 or so arrows before i am satisfied that it will remain a bow, and apply my finish to it. At that point I start trusting the bow will be trustworthy of handling the shock of the sudden release of stored energy.

Badger:
There is a simple fix for bad shoulders that works a large percentage of the time, even on shoulders where dr,s say it needs surgery. About 1/2 way between your neck and your shoulder and about 3" down, have someone poke around with their finger and search for a tight ligament. You can feel it pretty easily, if you can't feel it ask the person with a shoulder problem to let you know when you hit a tender spot. Once you find it, just take your finger tips and work out the tightness with your fingers, slightly painful but usually gives relief by the next day and stays fixed for a long time.

JW_Halverson:

--- Quote from: Badger on November 14, 2025, 12:00:26 pm ---There is a simple fix for bad shoulders that works a large percentage of the time, even on shoulders where dr,s say it needs surgery. About 1/2 way between your neck and your shoulder and about 3" down, have someone poke around with their finger and search for a tight ligament. You can feel it pretty easily, if you can't feel it ask the person with a shoulder problem to let you know when you hit a tender spot. Once you find it, just take your finger tips and work out the tightness with your fingers, slightly painful but usually gives relief by the next day and stays fixed for a long time.

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I have a wooden cane that I use to hit tough knots in my neck and shoulders. Hurts like a bear until the knot relaxes.

This is actually in the joint itself, feels like burning and tearing at certain angles when either pushing or pulling. I borrowed a sling and have been keeping my arm supported and resting for about 3 days now. Things feel better, so I am hoping resting and icing will help heal things up.

Aaron1726:
Look up a coops bowsmith.  It's for the wheelie bows, but has a wench to pull the bow back and then you pull the trigger on the release aid, so you don't actually have to draw the bow.  Might be tricky with a primitive bow to draw and release quick enough, but they look pretty cool.  Although its just an 80 20 aluminum frame so you could build one pretty easily.

Eric Krewson:
When I make a bow, I shoot it a dozen or so times between scrape and check sessions once it is one the short string. I do this at my waist instead of proper shooting form and mark the arrow so I don't draw above the target weight.  I feel that all you need to register a change in tillering is the short snap of an arrow release.

In your case you could put the thumb of your bad arm through a belt loop to hold the string and push the bow out with your good arm. Sounds nutty but I bet it would work.

I think an MRI is in order, what you described is exactly like my surgeon described when he looked at my neck MRI a few weeks ago. He said saw an area that needed work and asked me if I was feeling symptoms like you described, fortunately I wasn't.

My latest set back had me thinking my fake hip was failing big time, terrible pain right in the ball of joint, at times I couldn't walk 20 ft with out that lightning bolt hitting me in the fake hip.

An MRI dispelled my theory of having my fake hip failing, the pain was generated by two bulging disc at L4 and 5 but didn't manifest itself until it got to my hip region. I got the shots in my problem area 3 weeks ago, it didn't appear that they worked but a week ago I felt something shift in my back and the pain started fading away, so far so good, I walked 2 miles of very hilly ground yesterday with no pain.

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