Any one up for trad archery?

[donnie]

not sure about the tuning question, but i can tell you as a novice recurve shooter
1) practice
2) i use a cardboard deer target over my bails.
3) and shoot at a walk thru type range as often as possible. limit your range of shots as needed, but backyard range shooting doesn't give your sighting picture the work out it needs. you can memorize shot from anywhere on a fixed range quickly.
good luck

[blacktail]

I have always started out around 5/8ths above for the knocking point on my trad bows and adjusted from there.
Shooting off the shelf requires a little more clearance than you would think and if you are shooting from an elevated east you could drop that by about an 8th of an inch.

You may find with a little higher clearance that the arrow will fly noticeably better.
Also when shooting trad equipment try not to fall back into the training wheel mental mode............hehe
It is like comparing apples and oranges.........

[travelworn]

Try stump shooting. Get a couple of judo or blunt points (I prefer judo) and take a walk in the woods. Shoot at rotten stumps, a leaf or clod of dirt. Aim small miss small if you miss a stick by an inch or two keep trying when you go back to the range you'll think that target is huge compared to the bich leaf you shot . It is a lot of fun if you can find somebody to go with. just pick out whatever catches yoour eye just watch out for rocks

[DON WALKUP]

how high do u have your bow braced? if u have too high a brace, it can affect the tiller (for example the mfgr calls for 8" and u have 9-10") that may also affect the nockset. you're not shooting vanes off the shelf are you? if you are, you have to have a really high brace heigth.

yes, "erratic flight" can be a result of improper nock set heigth but more times than not, it will 'porpoise' from incorrect nock set heigth. easily corrected by moving it up/down for correct flight.

side-to-side motion can be "plucking" the string on release, arrow-right/arrow-left adjustment or too weak of spine arrow.

get your bows mfgr brace heigth recommendations, set your nock at 3/8" above horizontal and go from there. off the shelf will normally require a higher brace than an elevated arrow rest.

[Johnny Savage]

Don, thanks for the comments. I measured my brace height at 8-3/4" (string to front of bow shelf)

I think I may have bow "issues". I've checked the tiller at 21" (widest point) from each end of my bow (string to back of limb). The top tiller measures 9-1/8". The bottom tiller measures 7-7/8". I'm told that it's not uncommon for the bottom to be less than the top. However, it would seem to me that 2-1/4" is extreme. Any thoughts/comments?

[blacktail]

The brace height seems a little high
try dropping it down to around 7 1/2" to start and adjust your nock height accordingly