Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: H Rhodes on June 04, 2012, 12:06:18 pm
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White oak bow I built last week. 68" ntn, 58#@29". Took about 2 and 1/2 inches of set. shoots pretty good though. I had some black rawhide lacing that I reverse twisted into a length of cordage. The bow was a quickie so i didn't put an arrow rest on it. I tied the cordage around it and figured out how to wrap it around my hand to make a pretty effective arrow rest, which can be taken off and tied on other bows.... just an idea.
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That'll work or you could skyve and wrap the forward end of your arrows. Jawge
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Dang Howard, that's a pretty slick deal right there....bow looks good also.
rich
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I like it. makes me wonder if our ancestors did something similar. we will never know however since cordage never lasts.
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Thanks guys. Yeah, you have to wonder just how many of these little things have been done before. I am sure that I am not the original inventor of this little trick. I agree with you Jawge. I have found that I have a lot less damage to my left hand since I started wrapping my arrows front and back. A little sinew and glue and all the sudden, you are not losing a fletch feather every few shots.
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If the arrows fletching catches your hand at all then your nocking point is too low. Just move it up in 1/16ths at a time until it stops. This always works. Simple!!
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I appreciate the tip brother, but I can't see in sixteenths.... I think you are right. Come to think of it, that usually happens on bows before I mark a nocking point. Of course, sometimes I don't install one of any kind and just sort of eyeball things till the arrow looks like a right angle and then fire away... If it is for serious shooting though, I definitely install some kind of nocking point on the string. Keeps things from stringing up and down the target.