Matblack
Member
Hi everyone
I'm seeking a little advice re: bow tuning
I've watched a few YouTube videos and from what I can glean my sight should sit pretty much above my arrow. Mine seems to be quite a long way to the left of the arrow.
I've strung my bow, propped it up and and taken a few steps back and I'm thinking that may be the centre shot is off with the arrow tip further to the left than I might have expected although I know it is supposed to sit slightly to the left of the string.
I presume that this will make my arrows fly left, if I'm then chasing this with my sight it seems to follow it would off to the left too?
This bow hasn't been regularly shot for 11 years and I'm not convinced it was precisely set up then so there is a good chance the button is too far through the riser and pushing centre shot left.
The annoying thing is the bow is shooting OK and the last thing I want to do is bugger it up playing around.
The only thing which makes me question this is I've been shooting at 10/20/30/40m to get some sight marks and as I move back there doesn't seem to be a need to adjust the sight more to the left. I may be wrong here but I would presume that if centre shot was off the problem would get worse (I'd need to adjust more horizontaly left) at longer distances? Of course as I move back my groups are opening up so I may not be noticing or natural tendency to pepper the target may be masking the drift.
And all this makes me wonder if I shouldn't have opened this can of worms in the first place
Thanks for listening
I'm seeking a little advice re: bow tuning
I've watched a few YouTube videos and from what I can glean my sight should sit pretty much above my arrow. Mine seems to be quite a long way to the left of the arrow.
I've strung my bow, propped it up and and taken a few steps back and I'm thinking that may be the centre shot is off with the arrow tip further to the left than I might have expected although I know it is supposed to sit slightly to the left of the string.
I presume that this will make my arrows fly left, if I'm then chasing this with my sight it seems to follow it would off to the left too?
This bow hasn't been regularly shot for 11 years and I'm not convinced it was precisely set up then so there is a good chance the button is too far through the riser and pushing centre shot left.
The annoying thing is the bow is shooting OK and the last thing I want to do is bugger it up playing around.
The only thing which makes me question this is I've been shooting at 10/20/30/40m to get some sight marks and as I move back there doesn't seem to be a need to adjust the sight more to the left. I may be wrong here but I would presume that if centre shot was off the problem would get worse (I'd need to adjust more horizontaly left) at longer distances? Of course as I move back my groups are opening up so I may not be noticing or natural tendency to pepper the target may be masking the drift.
And all this makes me wonder if I shouldn't have opened this can of worms in the first place
Thanks for listening