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Title: Bow makers and acuracy
Post by: kayakfisher on March 25, 2008, 08:06:49 pm

Hey just wandering how you all maintain your accuracy when building multiple bows I have built four now and when I start getting pretty good with one! I have another to start figuring out
                                             Dennis
                                                                             

Title: Re: Bow makers and acuracy
Post by: JackCrafty on March 25, 2008, 08:19:10 pm

You get used to a new bow pretty quick if you shoot by instinct...at least I do.  It's kinda like throwing rocks at a target.  After a half-dozen shots with the same bow (or the same size rock)....the brain makes the adjustments automatically.

Title: Re: Bow makers and acuracy
Post by: Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive on March 25, 2008, 08:34:28 pm

i have no problem with it either. in fact the memory seems to keep all my bows in the "archive" so when i pick up one of the old ones i can still shoot it fine.  i can shoot about 3-4 bows in one sitting on average, sometimes i do this befor edeer season and whichever one hits the best and i enjoy the most is usually the one i hunt with- Ryan

Title: Re: Bow makers and acuracy
Post by: Justin Snyder on March 25, 2008, 08:46:54 pm

I can miss as good with one as I can with the other.  :'( Justin

Title: Re: Bow makers and acuracy
Post by: Kegan on March 25, 2008, 09:15:15 pm

I make them all shoot the same way with the same arrows. All shoot better than I do ;D!

Title: Re: Bow makers and acuracy
Post by: DanaM on March 25, 2008, 09:18:24 pm

Quote from: Justin Snyder on March 25, 2008, 08:46:54 pm

I can miss as good with one as I can with the other.  :'( Justin

What Justin said :'(

Title: Re: Bow makers and acuracy
Post by: Hillbilly on March 25, 2008, 11:59:30 pm

I just keep my accuracy at the "sucks" level, and then it doesn't matter which bow I'm shooting. Like Justin said, I can spray arrows all over the place equally with any bow.  :)

Title: Re: Bow makers and acuracy
Post by: El Destructo on March 26, 2008, 02:24:23 am

what Keegan said.......it's a lot cheaper to have them all shoot the same Arrows!!!

Title: Re: Bow makers and acuracy
Post by: Pat B on March 26, 2008, 02:47:43 am

Like was said above, with instinctive shooting your brain makes the adjustments. I shoot lots of bows all year long. A month before hunting season I pick the bow I will hunt with and shoot it almost exclusively. I always have a back up bow for the "just in case" that shoots closely to my primary hunting bow and shoot it enough to be familiar, just in case! ;D     Pat

Title: Re: Bow makers and acuracy
Post by: Pappy on March 26, 2008, 06:41:48 am

I shoot a lot of different bow and suck pretty much the same with all of them, ;D
Kidding aside most of the bows I build for my self shoot about the same,a little different
in weight but that is about it,most will even shoot the same arrows,If they don't
I work with them until they do.I shot 5 different bows last deer season and took a deer
with 4 so that is really all that matters to me.My problem isn't the bows shoot so different it is I spend so much time working on bows I don't take the time to shoot as much as I should. :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: Bow makers and acuracy
Post by: GregB on March 26, 2008, 09:16:23 am

When you go out shooting, got to have your excuses in order. ;) My last bow I left the nocking point off the string for a while and actually shot decent with it. Since I've put on a nocking point, my shooting has gotten worse again. It's a mind game that I usually lose. ;)