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Offline kayakfisher

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Bow makers and acuracy
« 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
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Re: Bow makers and acuracy
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: Bow makers and acuracy
« Reply #2 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
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Offline Justin Snyder

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Re: Bow makers and acuracy
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2008, 08:46:54 pm »
I can miss as good with one as I can with the other.  :'( Justin
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Re: Bow makers and acuracy
« Reply #4 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!

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« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2008, 09:18:24 pm »
I can miss as good with one as I can with the other.  :'( Justin

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Re: Bow makers and acuracy
« Reply #6 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.  :)
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Re: Bow makers and acuracy
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2008, 02:24:23 am »
what Keegan said.......it's a lot cheaper to have them all shoot the same Arrows!!!
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Re: Bow makers and acuracy
« Reply #8 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
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Re: Bow makers and acuracy
« Reply #9 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. :)
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Re: Bow makers and acuracy
« Reply #10 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. ;)
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