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    Bow weight.

    First step is to look at how you stabilise the bow. With a 3 or 4” extender you can drop a lot of mass from your long rod and twins and maintain a decent level of forward weight. It can be more critical of hand position - but 5” or 6” will be even more so. When I shot a 5” extender I had about...
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    Mid priced button recommendation?

    Shibuya shoots as well as any of the chuck-your-cash-away-here buttons. (Assuming £30 is your idea of mid priced). No clicks, no frills, just bloody good. Then you get to spend ours trying to discern if the metal tip shoots any worse than the teflon tip. (Aka shoot the metal tip unless you see...
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    What's the next step....?

    At the stage you’re at buy secondhand. Everything. There is always an idiot (like me) with a hankering for the latest greatest shiny thing. Then you can benefit from their last recently greatest shiny thing. Use your eyes, if it is tatty then avoid. For risers, If it is more than 15 years old...
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    Increasing my draw length

    Longer drawlength means more stored energy in the limb and typically better energy transfer to the arrow. To be honest I see almost no arrow speed difference between 70” Velos and 73” Velos with the same arrow and similar weight settings. At 31.5” you are just getting in to the band where you...
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    Sticking limbs.

    Metric? In a Hoyt? Are you sure? Stretch
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    A couple of arrows going low

    If you stringwalk then your nocking point will be in a compromise position - this will show up any weight variation in the arrow more obviously- so have you weighed them? With full rig it should be easier to get the nocking point spot on so it requires more distance to show up the error. Weigh...
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    Oberon Tab Face Material? Where Art Thou......

    There is absolutely no cushioning in the roo leather - even with 4 layers. So compared to cordovan or a suede layer it shoots thin. That means that, like shooting any very thin tab, or even straight off your fingers, it can but pressure on nerves. What it does, and how it affects you, depends on...
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    Oberon Tab Face Material? Where Art Thou......

    I also spent my entire shooting career in Scotland (apart from the adventures south) in the days of double 90m Fita and Yorks. Never felt that I was losing points from cordovan. And that included events that left the field looking like the battle of the Somme. Horses for courses. As I said, I...
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    Oberon Tab Face Material? Where Art Thou......

    The Shibuya tabs have excellent cordovan - i have an Apex and and the Chung-Tae Kim tab - they feel great and the leather is very consistent (The suede backing is also very consistent). Unfortunately despite feeling like they work for me I shoot better with the Fairweather. AAE cordovan used to...
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    Oberon Tab Face Material? Where Art Thou......

    Never worked for me - I always needed a thinner tab than that. When I shot off my pads it didn’t really matter (although I did shoot a thin tab). When I moved to a deeper hook (1991!) it became more of an issue, 4.7mm of leather x2 (each side of the string) is just impossible to shoot. I shot...
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    Oberon Tab Face Material? Where Art Thou......

    Yeah, soft twist is just soft, it fluffs up but usually stays in tact for a long time. A switch to Majesty will fix the issue. Not sure I have ever seen a Korean nocking point that big - usually about 20 is plenty (Total). Should look more like dvd8n’s example. Just FWIW, you said you’d been...
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    Oberon Tab Face Material? Where Art Thou......

    Angel Majesty is the best - full stop. The older Angel ASB - think it is called Izanas or something these days - is very slippery but not as tough. BCY make a whole range of braided dyneema but I’m not convinced any are as good as Majesty. Soft twist #4 is 0.021” so while Angel 0.021” Majesty...
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    The Archery Shop-Online

    I agree with the comment above about it being a bit sad. Certainly I will not place another order with them until there is a clear explanation of why they are taking orders and not fulfilling them. Why they are advertising sales when they cannot serve customers etc. An “oh some staff were ill”...
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    Vanes

    You can’t go wrong with original spin wings - still what most Koreans shoot. I like the Korea Archery Jet6 vanes and the new version is a much better price. They seem to be a bit of a marmite product for some but I have haven’t had any issues. Shame most UK dealers stock 1.75” which is too...
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    Hoyt clicker extenders?

    I think it is intended to be useful for people who load the bow in a certain way, allows you to dip the arrow point under the clicker. I don’t know anyone who actually does this but I am pretty sure this is what they said when it appeared. Kind of a cheap version of the recessed click area on...
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    The Archery Shop-Online

    I have used them quite a lot over the years. Mostly they have been very good, often well priced and sometimes giving access to products I couldn’t get anywhere else. (Both expensive items and less costly accessories). Recently (last year of so) I have placed a few orders for items that showed...
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    ACE spine

    So clearance is better the stiffer the arrow but bare shaft is proportionally further away. 850 to 750 is two spines so you’d expect 1” longer 750 to still be stiffer. 800 would probably be right or an 750 that is longer. At least the variables seem to be consistent. In my experience with X10s...
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    Boss foam recycling?

    If you have a coffee roaster nearby they usually have nice hessian coffee sacks which do the same job without the extra plastic. Some roasters give them away, some charge a small fee. The hessian usually lasts pretty well. Stretch
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    Skylon Quality Issues

    If you look into some of the other Beiter Overnocks you might find one that would work. I reckonned the 1960 exacta nock *might* work on a spec 500. You might find the 4.9 or 4.92 works. My first thoughts we also that they’d reduced the carbon quality. Stretch
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    Skylon Quality Issues

    Sounds a bit like you can assume any Skylon 3,2mm variant will a noticeable amount thicker than spec. My only concern here is that if you shoot the stiffer of the shafts for the nock and pin size then the collar on the nock pin and the point may not cover the full shaft. So a 550 will be quite...
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