Corax67
Well-known member
Is anyone else currently shooting a fluorescent bowstring?
I spent a lot of my longbow season this year really concentrating on getting a consistent draw & sight picture and it began paying dividends with my scores this year better across the range of rounds I shot and improving (by small amouns) week on week.
Longbow was brought to an abrupt halt following a bicep injury and out came my recurve with weedy limbs to feed my archery habit & I finally managed to put my 36# limbs back on a couple of weeks ago to shoot with minimum discomfort.
The thing is all the time I was shooting my recurve I completely forgot all the work I had done on sight picture by being lazy and just getting the sight dot onto the ring, drawing through the clicker and ping - grouping has been 'wafty' to say the least.
On noticing that my current string was getting more than a little furry when stripping down on Saturday I popped into my local shop and had one made up while I waited and for a change I choose fluorescent green rather than bog standard black which I've previously always used.
During a session this evening I set bracing height & a nock point with the new string and was utterly taken aback by what I now see when I draw up.
It it is now so much easier to get a definitive sight picture that I can replicate over and over again! No longer does the blurry string fade out of sight, especially as I was indoors in less than perfect light, rather the fluoro green stripe of the string and the equally bright green dot on my Shibuya fibre sight pin leap out at me ensuring I get myself lined up every single shot & my groups are tighter than a tight thing.
Admittedly the first dozen ends were messy but it's a brand new string and I was tweaking things but once I found a groove the next dozen were a revelation.
Has anyone else come across this phenomena?
If this actually works & it's not just a burst of 'new kit boost' then I am seriously thinking of sourcing a suitable fluoro for my longbow next season too.
Karl
I spent a lot of my longbow season this year really concentrating on getting a consistent draw & sight picture and it began paying dividends with my scores this year better across the range of rounds I shot and improving (by small amouns) week on week.
Longbow was brought to an abrupt halt following a bicep injury and out came my recurve with weedy limbs to feed my archery habit & I finally managed to put my 36# limbs back on a couple of weeks ago to shoot with minimum discomfort.
The thing is all the time I was shooting my recurve I completely forgot all the work I had done on sight picture by being lazy and just getting the sight dot onto the ring, drawing through the clicker and ping - grouping has been 'wafty' to say the least.
On noticing that my current string was getting more than a little furry when stripping down on Saturday I popped into my local shop and had one made up while I waited and for a change I choose fluorescent green rather than bog standard black which I've previously always used.
During a session this evening I set bracing height & a nock point with the new string and was utterly taken aback by what I now see when I draw up.
It it is now so much easier to get a definitive sight picture that I can replicate over and over again! No longer does the blurry string fade out of sight, especially as I was indoors in less than perfect light, rather the fluoro green stripe of the string and the equally bright green dot on my Shibuya fibre sight pin leap out at me ensuring I get myself lined up every single shot & my groups are tighter than a tight thing.
Admittedly the first dozen ends were messy but it's a brand new string and I was tweaking things but once I found a groove the next dozen were a revelation.
Has anyone else come across this phenomena?
If this actually works & it's not just a burst of 'new kit boost' then I am seriously thinking of sourcing a suitable fluoro for my longbow next season too.
Karl