Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Shooting and Hunting => Topic started by: turtle on September 26, 2014, 02:32:28 pm
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I have a 54" bendy handle Osage bow that pulls 55#@26" I'm only shooting it at about 25" draw though for some reason its just not comfortable to me at 26" even though i normally shoot my longer bows @ 27". The handle/arrow pass is the widest part of the bow at 1 1/2". I could never get consistent groups from it no matter what arrows i used or how much i shot it so it hung on the rack for a long time. I recently decided to try to hunt with it this year (season starts tomorrow :)) so i have been shooting the heck out of it. I was getting mad and frustrated one day when i couldn't get consistent groups so i squeezed the grip as hard as i could in a death grip and tried to force my arrow to go where i was looking, and to my amazement it worked. I soon found that as long as i had a very hard grip on the bow that my groups would settle right down. I shoot my stiff narrow handled bows with a much looser grip. Anyway i was wondering if the death grip is what is usually used on this type of bow or if its just a quirk on this particular bow??
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I don't shoot my bendy handles like that. I hold fairly loose
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I barely hold mine. Literally have it pinched between my middle finger and thumb with my pointer for arrow resting.
Post a picture of the bow.
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Sounds like i just made a tempermental bow.
Heres your pictures Parnell.
(http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u437/stevenbennett2/misc/20140926_153438.jpg)
(http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u437/stevenbennett2/misc/20140926_153520.jpg)
(http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u437/stevenbennett2/misc/20140926_153548.jpg)
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maybe the death grip is getting your bow arm to stay still, Its always a conscious effort with me to keep my bow arm still. If I don't think about it, I get lazy, my bow arm starts to wobble, and my groups get sloppy.
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Does the bow have a rest or are you shooting off your fist? If I am shooting off my fist I seem to grip the bow a little more deliberately, mostly to insure that I am holding the bow in the same way every shot, but I don't grip it too hard. I may try it. :D
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Does the bow have a rest or are you shooting off your fist? If I am shooting off my fist I seem to grip the bow a little more deliberately, mostly to insure that I am holding the bow in the same way every shot, but I don't grip it too hard. I may try it. :D
It doesnt have an actual rest but it does have a small piece of leather inserted between tha handle wrap and the side of the bow that acts a a sort of rest but the arrow still rides partly on my fist. It just helps me to get the arrow in the same spot on the bow every time.
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Is that an Osage tree in the picture... :o
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Is that an Osage tree in the picture... :o
No, its a willow. But i know where there is an Osage tree thats over twice the diameter as this willow.
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Steve, I'd say try some different arrows. Maybe a little longer then what you normally shoot, or different weight points.