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Badger:
  Something I noticed this weekend that may or may not be worth looking at further. Small samplings are not always good to draw conclusions from but I feel do sometimes point us in the right direction. I noticed with my D/R bows they tend to accelerate quickly in the last few inches, I also struggle the most with them in getting good flight. D shaped bows seem to be a tad slower but much more consistent in clean arrows comming out of the bow. The big recurves accelerate from further back in the bow and also seem more prone to clean arrow releases. I really hate building recurves so this trend disturbed me LOL. The one bow I am wishing I used in competition but didnt was a bow with a fully curved deflex/ reflex with no net reflex behind the bow. It was moderately fast but did seem to give me my cleanest flight in practice. It had a traingular shape when braced. Back to the drawing board!

willie:
Badger-
could it be that we rarely look at clean release as an attribute of the bow it's self? I know as an archer I assume that I have to improve my release when I do not like what I see with the arrow flight (and probably rightly so as my form always need improvement)..... or we look to arrow problems or tuning..... etc.

accuracy is the sum of all the different factors that create dispersion, and although flight shooting is not focused on accuracy per se, the same problems that cause dispersion, can be included as likely suspects for poor flight shots.

can't help but think how often I have heard repeated that an archer likes a little set as it "makes for a sweeter shooter" . I  wonder why? maybe one of those intuitive things that cannot be proved or unproved.

willie

Badger:
   I think the release is very critical, in the past I have concentrated more on generating more speed in my releases, now days I am thinking more of trying to get clean releases. I have been using nocks that are on the loose side. I intend to do some paper shooting and see how nock fit affects arrow flight.

Aaron H:

--- Quote from: Badger on October 15, 2015, 12:12:24 pm ---   I think the release is very critical, in the past I have concentrated more on generating more speed in my releases, now days I am thinking more of trying to get clean releases. I have been using nocks that are on the loose side. I intend to do some paper shooting and see how nock fit affects arrow flight.

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I would like to see your results on this Steve

JoJoDapyro:
Do you shoot two under one over? How hard would it be to develop a pinch grip?

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