From: Fishgut430
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Date: 09-Aug-17 |
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I am used to compounds so i always just let the bow rest in my hand when shooting like you would on a compound. I noticed sometimes my arrows were dropping a little bit and could not figure out why. So in the midst of my shooting session i tried gripping the bow. It felt horribly weird but I ended up breaking an arrow from smacking them together the groups were that good. I'm in disbelief. So how do you guys hold your bows?
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From: soap creek
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Date: 09-Aug-17 |
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I'd say if your shooting tight enough groups that your breaking nocks, then what ever your doing is working for you. I wouldn't change a thing. As for me depends on the bow, recurve, ASL, highbred, ect... I let the bow decide what it likes. I hold my recurve loose and with a low wrist. That's what works for me.
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From: Bowmania
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Date: 09-Aug-17 |
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Probably just like a good grip on a compound. Knuckles at a fortyfive and the bow riding from my lifeline out towards my thumb. Just the thumb an forefinger touching. Pretty hard to torque with a 'grip' like that.
Lots of times a change good or bad will help you group, because it's a change.
Bowmania
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From: GLF
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Date: 09-Aug-17 |
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Loose.
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From: Ishi
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Date: 09-Aug-17 |
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Loose - experimenting w/ a Rod Jenkins style wrist strap.
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From: babysaph
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Date: 09-Aug-17 |
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I hold mine in my left hand. I am right handed
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From: camodave
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Date: 09-Aug-17 |
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Although the general principles of form are the same I find that every bow I shoot works best with its own grip pressure. Some I shoot with a very tight grip, others not so much. The bottom line is do what works best for you.
DDave
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From: Cameron Root
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Date: 09-Aug-17 |
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Loose cradle on medium to high. Asl's grip pressured front to back works on other low grip bows as well. If I have to choke the chicken with thumb and index finger I sell the bow. Rooty
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From: longbowguy
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Date: 09-Aug-17 |
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Not like choking a chicken, more like milking a cow. - lbg
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From: JustSomeDude
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Date: 09-Aug-17 |
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If gripping tightly 'fixed it' then your bow isn't properly balanced on your hand and you are fighting it. You might have your pressure point in a bad place on your bow hand. You might be drawing at an angle...
What bow is it?
When everything is set up right, the less interference from my hand, the better. Don't think if it as 'compound shooting'. Think of it as 'accurate'. People that want to be accurate as possible do not grip the bow. If you are doing the "Hitting like Howard' thing, that's a different ballgame.
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From: dean
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Date: 09-Aug-17 |
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ASLs, deep in the handA little squeeze to seat the bow at the beginning of the draw and then about as hard as I would want to hold my pet wren. When I am shooting a a running rabbit or a jumped pheasant hard enough to spread the glue lines and make the resin come out of the wood, but if it is in my hand right that will not torque the bow.
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From: dean
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Date: 09-Aug-17 |
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However, with my Grooves recurve, I need hold my pinky out from the bow just so or the arrows will go up and right about a foot at twenty yards. Sometimes when I am aiming hard trying split someone's arrow, I almost drop the bow or it slides down out of my hand a bit.
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From: JustSomeDude
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Date: 10-Aug-17 |
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"but if it is in my hand right that will not torque the bow"
Dean, Yep..that's the key. Even when gripping th bow, there is a balance point. When I mess up, my ringer/pinky has too much pressure and it flips the bow forward. Really affects your elevation.
I like to shoot my lightweight Tradtech Galaxy with my fingers on the riser. It shoots ,such quieter that way and it feels better on release.
My heavy barebows, I like to shoot open handed.
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From: Bob Rowlands
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Date: 11-Aug-17 |
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Light grip. I used to choke that mf but that is a mistake.
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From: Elkhuntr
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Date: 11-Aug-17 |
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i grip a bow with the heel of my hand down and in full contact, and my fingers wrapped tightly with very firm pressure. this works best for me out of all the different methods or styles.
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From: Will tell
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Date: 11-Aug-17 |
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Proper hand placement is very important in making a good shot. If your hand is a little off your shot is way off. I like to grip my handle tight enough it's locked in until the shots over. The first thing I do before shooting is to get my hand in the right spot. I use the same style shooting with all bows but the grips on the bow takes different hand positions. I have real trouble with straight longbow grips.
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From: N. Y. Yankee
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Date: 11-Aug-17 |
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Shooting a recurve with "medium" height grip. I place the web as high as I can comfortably get it under the shelf, straight wrist, straight elbow. Index finger only holding the bow from flying out of my hand and the rest are pulled back. I cant the bow about 45 degrees. This works well for me and is comfortable. It just feels natural to me and I shoot pretty well for my purposes. I suggest people just do what they believe is right for them. Not what someone else says is right for them.
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From: nomo
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Date: 11-Aug-17 |
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Left middle finger with a little grip and others just laying around the grip so the bow doesn't fall is how I shoot my LB and very loose grip on RCs. Fingers just laying around grip so bow won't fall. No real hold.
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 11-Aug-17 |
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I try not to discriminate, so I hold all of my bows the same...from high wrist recurves to Hill style longbows. Now you do have to adapt to handle design, but you don't change the pressure point on your hand...so that is what I'm referring too. How that is described can lead to confusion, but it is readily apparent when you hold a bow to shoot it. Basically the pressure is against the web of the hand/thumb area. That's about as good as I can explain.
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