robbo
New member
having gone from shooting pretty well and feeling confident, my last few sessions have been the opposite. I just couldn't get any grouping going shooting a portsmouth, arrows were going left and right scoring 6's and 7's. I know my loose can be a bit dodgy sometimes so I was really concentrating on my whole technique, which just seemed to make it worse as I was tensing up too much.
Went shooting with numpty today and as it was bit rough outside we decided to shoot another portsmouth, sure enough the trend continued, maybe one or two nines but mainly in the red with no apparent grouping. Started to make a note of the arrows that were most offline to see if it was the same culprits each time, it was. Passed a comment to numpty about the problem and after watching my arrows leave the bow they had a definate left/right kick to them. AAHH he said confidently, took an arrow in hand looked down the nock to see if it was inline with the cock fletching, it wasn't.
checked them all and sure enough they were all slightly out of alignment. We turned them all to the correct position and I banged in a 57 end and it was pleasure to see the arrows fly in a straight line.
I really don't know why I didn't think of checking them before :bang: , they will now get checked on a regular basis. So thank you numpty, I owe you one.
Went shooting with numpty today and as it was bit rough outside we decided to shoot another portsmouth, sure enough the trend continued, maybe one or two nines but mainly in the red with no apparent grouping. Started to make a note of the arrows that were most offline to see if it was the same culprits each time, it was. Passed a comment to numpty about the problem and after watching my arrows leave the bow they had a definate left/right kick to them. AAHH he said confidently, took an arrow in hand looked down the nock to see if it was inline with the cock fletching, it wasn't.
checked them all and sure enough they were all slightly out of alignment. We turned them all to the correct position and I banged in a 57 end and it was pleasure to see the arrows fly in a straight line.
I really don't know why I didn't think of checking them before :bang: , they will now get checked on a regular basis. So thank you numpty, I owe you one.