What have I done?
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Lol, I have those multiple times every day. No one in this world can be harder on me, then me.
When I started this nonsense in December, I had roughly 9 months to get competent enough to hunt with the bow this fall. As of today, we're roughly 4 months out. I think I'll be OK.
I made the rookie mistake of not checking my brace height often enough. The string had stretched quite a bit on me. My brace height had gone from 7 1/4" to just under 7". When I checked the specs that came with my bow, I realized that even 7 1/4" was under the suggested brace height for the bow. I twisted up the string and got the BH to right at 8" (suggested BH is 7 1/2"-8 1/4"). What a difference that made in the noise level of the shot. It's a much quieter bow to shoot now. And the change in BH didn't seem to hurt anything accuracy-wise.
I picked up a 16-strand D97 string to replace the string on my bow and added a Hush Kit from Mountain Muffler Strings. Pretty easy install on the kit. I also ditched the metal nocking points and tied some on with serving, which was new to me. I dig the setup. I had been having issues with the calf hair silencing pads on my limbs coming loose and I like that the Hush Kit wrap just goes on the string instead.
Sgt Fury
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Stupid question here: do you guys practice from elevated positions? Does it affect your point of impact? Also, good to know about the brace height problem...I am aware of it on my compound but never even thought about it on a recurve. I learned something today!
Stupid question here: do you guys practice from elevated positions? Does it affect your point of impact? Also, good to know about the brace height problem...I am aware of it on my compound but never even thought about it on a recurve. I learned something today!
It's been on my mental to-do list for a few weeks to hang my stand in a tree in the yard so I can shoot a little from the stand but I have not done it yet. I'm planning to hunt some from my ground blind, which I also need to get ready/modified to allow me to shoot my longer recurve from it.
yes, I do a lot of shooting from an elevated position. I think it is quite important if you hunt from treestands a lot with a traditional bow. not a stupid question at all.
I did a lot of shooting over the weekend. Stumping, AKA trash shooting.
The usual range bag and 3D deer shooting.
And I also hung a stand to shoot from and shot from my ground blind a little.
The usual range bag and 3D deer shooting.
And I also hung a stand to shoot from and shot from my ground blind a little.
Got some new toys to play with. The broadheads shot pretty well today on my break.
I've never tried these nocks but in limited practice so far they work pretty well.
I've never tried these nocks but in limited practice so far they work pretty well.
