This has got to be the weirdest thing ive seen so far in archery...
Tonight about halfway through the night my shots started to wander off and weird things started to happen. Arrows were SLAMMING into the riser as they passed and going all over the boss, warping fletchings in the process ( newly fletched only a week ago, arghhhh!! ).
Nothing on the bow had changed, brace height nock point rest etc all normal, i hadnt changed anything in my form it was the same as always ( not the best, but consistent at least! :cheerful: ) but practically every shot for 2nd half of the evening went to pot.
for reference i shoot a 70", 32lb @ 28" which is my draw length as measured.
Easton Redline arrows, 30" in 600 spine which is correct by the easton chart. Have been using this bow/arrow combination for 2-3 months two-three times a week with no issue.
Now is where the weirdness comes in....
Some of the more experienced archers took a look and couldnt see anything wrong so we started moving the centreshot, made some slight difference but not much and they were still contacting enough to send them fishtailing and off in random directions.
At thier wits end they suggested a bare shaft test, so i took the one with most damaged fletches, stripped it and cleaned and took the shot... It ended up in a boss TWO LANES TO THE LEFT, roughly 3metre off target at 18m.
This shocked the hell out of everyone so it was repeated, and did the same again about 4 times in a row.
On one archers suggestion, to find out if it was the button causing problems it was removed and the bareshaft fired with no button at all, shaft resting against riser. Impacted approx 2m to left, not as bad as with button but still MILES off.
does anybody have any idea whats happened???
soo frustrated, evenign started well with an hour of good shooting and scores for me, and then in the space of 3 ends it all went wrong
Tonight about halfway through the night my shots started to wander off and weird things started to happen. Arrows were SLAMMING into the riser as they passed and going all over the boss, warping fletchings in the process ( newly fletched only a week ago, arghhhh!! ).
Nothing on the bow had changed, brace height nock point rest etc all normal, i hadnt changed anything in my form it was the same as always ( not the best, but consistent at least! :cheerful: ) but practically every shot for 2nd half of the evening went to pot.
for reference i shoot a 70", 32lb @ 28" which is my draw length as measured.
Easton Redline arrows, 30" in 600 spine which is correct by the easton chart. Have been using this bow/arrow combination for 2-3 months two-three times a week with no issue.
Now is where the weirdness comes in....
Some of the more experienced archers took a look and couldnt see anything wrong so we started moving the centreshot, made some slight difference but not much and they were still contacting enough to send them fishtailing and off in random directions.
At thier wits end they suggested a bare shaft test, so i took the one with most damaged fletches, stripped it and cleaned and took the shot... It ended up in a boss TWO LANES TO THE LEFT, roughly 3metre off target at 18m.
This shocked the hell out of everyone so it was repeated, and did the same again about 4 times in a row.
On one archers suggestion, to find out if it was the button causing problems it was removed and the bareshaft fired with no button at all, shaft resting against riser. Impacted approx 2m to left, not as bad as with button but still MILES off.
does anybody have any idea whats happened???
soo frustrated, evenign started well with an hour of good shooting and scores for me, and then in the space of 3 ends it all went wrong