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RANGEBALL's POST

Curious as to what bow characteristics dictate how easy or hard it is for an individual shooter to comfortably line the shaft up under their shooting eye?

I'm currently shooting a Martin X200 recurve, my brother's bow. This is my first year in the woods with a stick. I shoot split finger and anchor on my right canine tooth with my middle fingernail.

I've noticed that unless I pay strict attention, the nock end of the arrow when I set up comfortably is to the right of the point end, and I subsequently miss left. To get the shaft under my eye (shoot RH and am RE dominant) requires manipulation that takes me out of what I feel is my natural set up. Since this is the first recurve I've shot (essentially, did shoot some trad when I was a kid but paid zero attention to things like form) I just assumed this is how it is.

A few weeks ago my youngest daughter and I were perusing the hunting section of a farm store, and I grabbed one of those draw length measuring blue fiberglass bows off the rack. I pulled back several times and had her tell me what it read at the eye screw (which was 27.5" each time, what that means as I've no idea if it's amo or what).

Then it hit me. Just drawing to my natural, comfortable, easily repeatable draw, the shaft was DIRECTLY under my eye. Each and every time. When I figured this out I bet I drew that little bow 50 times to make sure it wasn't a fluke, even closing my eyes while drawing, and got perfect alignment each time.

I've since tried to wrap my head around why this would be so. "My" recurve is only 45# and I don't feel overbowed at all. I do shoot the recurve with a damascus glove, and drew the blue bow bare fingers, but I can't imagine that or anything else that would cause the difference.

Any thoughts or ideas? I'm left wondering if it's due to the long bow like non center shot shelf of the draw length bow, and if it is, if I wouldn't shoot much better with a similar longbow.